ALS signed “George S. Patton, Jr.,” one page both sides, 5.5 x 9, June 25, 1916. Letter home to his mother, blaming President Woodrow Wilson for the death of a close friend and fellow classmate at West Point who was killed in action at the Battle of Carrizal during the Pancho Villa Expedition. In full: "We are back at Doublan which I left March 27, then it seemed a ruin but returning to it after three months of Darkest Mexico it is quite a place. There are stores here now where every thing one wants can be had. I want nothing in the food line as this place is on the R.R. Poor Mr. [Henry Rodney] Adair was in my 2nd year class at Riley, he died in a most gallant fashion having taken a trench and two machine guns and going clear on through the town on the far side of which he was mortally wounded. I am very well and have lost all hope of war; that dog Wilson is beyond words. I hope he is well beaten. I must stop now and mail this. Love to all." In fine condition. Patton served as an aide to General Pershing during his expeditionary campaign against Poncho Villa in Mexico in 1916. Patton attained notoriety during the campaign, at one point single-handedly killing two men. He went with Pershing to France when the US entered World War I in 1917.
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