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George S. Patton: West Point ALS to His Sister Anne Wilson Patton, 1904 Signed "Your loving brother Georgie".. ...
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The Amorous Adventures of the Young "Blood and Guts"
George S. Patton: West Point ALS to His Sister Anne Wilson
Patton, 1904 Signed "Your loving brother
Georgie".Six pages of a bifolium on United State Military Academy letterhead, 5 x 6 ¼-inches, West Point, New York, August 18, 1904. Young George recounts his romantic adventures in this letter to his younger sister in his first days at West Point. It reads in part:
"Dear Anne, Your letter was very interesting and I am really quite anxious to see Siberia I would like to be an actor in such a play. Yesterday we had a great time as Mrs. Watson asked ten plebes to a picnic and I was one of them we all went out of camp separately and met at a little lake in the hills below fort Putnam there we waited for a long time and had just determined to drown the fellow who had told us we were invited when Mrs. Watson came in a carriage. She brought lots of things to eat and five young ladies, each girl had a piece of paper pinned on her with her name and as soon as we came up we were similarly fixed so that there was not trouble about knowing who to speak to. The carriage went away again and soon came back with six more girls and Mr. Watson. Then we all ate and drank and most of them spooned but I was too polite and helped serve things. When I did talk for I don't spoon it was to Miss Watson. You see I had very nearly met her the day before under rather advantageous circumstances. I was on guard and when on guard and not walking, we have to clean every thing in sight. I had brushed my hair and was looking very neat so I pretended to sweep the visitors tent where all the people could see me. While I was engaged in this task Miss Watson came up and started to take two [illegible] off the pile in the tent but they were not piled well and so started to fall on her when I rushed to the rescue and stopped them. HA! She is the sister of a Corp. who sits at my table and so there was method in my madness. There was one other maiden who was quite overcome with me and when I left she gave me her name card but I lost the card and forgot the name. We all had a very nice time and the upper classmen did not say anything about our audacity...The first class was having artillery practice this morning and though we could not see the guns we could see the shells bursting in the hills and it looked fine. I have nothing more to say, Your loving brother, Georgie."
Condition: A fine, bright, legible letter.
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2025 December 8 Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Signature® Auction #6325 (go to Auction Home page)
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