PATTON, George S., Jr. (1885-1945). Major General . Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr") to his mother, [Fort Riley, KS], 22 July 1910. 6 pp., 8vo , fine. A YOUNG PATTON FROM HIS FIRST POST: "THE ARMY IN TIME OF PEACE CERTAINLY DOES NOT OVER WORK A MAN MUCH" A letter from the twenty-five year old Patton only a year after he graduated from Virginia Military Institute and was assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 15th Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas. He recounts a recent incident: "There was quite an excitement here...I am on guard and was counting the prisoners at supper when I heard Sentinel no 1. yell 'the guard No[.] four'. I did not know what in hell was up but ran out of the prison...assailed by visions of murder and robbery...I sent some men behind the house and told them to arrest any one who came out then I climbed in a window." Patton found "the place was full of the darndest smoke I ever smelled but there was no fire so I told the sergeant not to sound fire...I did nothing but cut my finger...and get hit in the back by the last weak effort of a fire extinguisher....What mixed me up at first was his yelling for the guard which is only turned out in extreme occasions for riots etc." He comments on the tedious side of military life: "I have been doing some little reading so feel less idle. The Army in time of peace certainly does not over work a man much. In fact I think that its non coms could run it as well if not better than the officers for they take more interest." Showing his concern for the well-being of his men, he adds: "In order to see what sort of food the men get Mr. Cooke and myself take now several meals a week in the troop kitchen," where they "give me vast quantities of things most of which are excellent...not a virtue of the officers mess" and jokes that one eats "if for no other cause starvation would about drive one to marry. Yet in my case I might be with truth said to risk 'jumping from the frying pan into the fire'..." Patton graduated from Mounted Service School in 1913 and served on Pershing's staff in Mexico and in France during World War I, where he was wounded.
PATTON, George S., Jr. (1885-1945). Major General . Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr") to his mother, [Fort Riley, KS], 22 July 1910. 6 pp., 8vo , fine. A YOUNG PATTON FROM HIS FIRST POST: "THE ARMY IN TIME OF PEACE CERTAINLY DOES NOT OVER WORK A MAN MUCH" A letter from the twenty-five year old Patton only a year after he graduated from Virginia Military Institute and was assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 15th Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas. He recounts a recent incident: "There was quite an excitement here...I am on guard and was counting the prisoners at supper when I heard Sentinel no 1. yell 'the guard No[.] four'. I did not know what in hell was up but ran out of the prison...assailed by visions of murder and robbery...I sent some men behind the house and told them to arrest any one who came out then I climbed in a window." Patton found "the place was full of the darndest smoke I ever smelled but there was no fire so I told the sergeant not to sound fire...I did nothing but cut my finger...and get hit in the back by the last weak effort of a fire extinguisher....What mixed me up at first was his yelling for the guard which is only turned out in extreme occasions for riots etc." He comments on the tedious side of military life: "I have been doing some little reading so feel less idle. The Army in time of peace certainly does not over work a man much. In fact I think that its non coms could run it as well if not better than the officers for they take more interest." Showing his concern for the well-being of his men, he adds: "In order to see what sort of food the men get Mr. Cooke and myself take now several meals a week in the troop kitchen," where they "give me vast quantities of things most of which are excellent...not a virtue of the officers mess" and jokes that one eats "if for no other cause starvation would about drive one to marry. Yet in my case I might be with truth said to risk 'jumping from the frying pan into the fire'..." Patton graduated from Mounted Service School in 1913 and served on Pershing's staff in Mexico and in France during World War I, where he was wounded.
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