ALS signed “George S. Patton, Jr.,” two pages both sides, 8 x 10.5, Headquarters, Fifteenth U. S. Cavalry letterhead, no date. Letter to his mother detailing how he and a friend rescued a woman. In part, “James Agar and myself were driving along the road when we saw a crowd of people and a bunch of men trying to get a woman into the back of a wagon. She was yelling and kicking so we jumped out when they saw us. Two of them ran away and the other two dropping her, jumped into the wagon and beat it as fast as the horse could go. We chased them and turning the machine across them forced them to stop. I was standing in the back of the machine with my pistol in my hand, but out of sight below the back of the car, when they were forced to stop the man driving started to lift a shotgun he had beside him, but I covered him quicker than he did, and he threw up his hands. The second man standing in the back of the wagon had a pistol in his hand, but he thought I was pointing at him too, and he dropped his weapon. We made them get out and we searched them. Each had almost 50 extra cartridges. We went back to where the girl was, she was yelling and very much excited. We quieted her and took the two…to prison where I think they will stay for two years, I hope they do.” In fine condition, with intersecting mailing folds and a few trivial wrinkles. LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
