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A powerful new father-and-son biography focuses on military legend George S. Patton and his son, Major General George S. Patton, both career military men. Original.

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BORN OF DISTINCTION

The Patton sons were all either killed, wounded, or otherwise  affected by the Civil War.

--Ruth Ellen Patton Totten

It is said that a Patton has fought in nearly every conflict in  America's history; yet the first Patton, one Robert Patton, was not a  military man but a tobacco exporter from South Carolina, whose name  first turns up on a deed in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1771. It has  been established with considerable certainty that the name was an  alias: the young man who called himself Robert Patton, then a popular  last name in Scotland, was actually a wanted criminal in the old  country. Like so many immigrants of those times, he had set out for  America to leave his past behind. From such humble beginnings the  family over the next two hundred years would make an indelible mark  on the American landscape.

The Patton name has inspired countless literary endeavors,  including many books and articles, published especially over the last  fifty years. The story of Patton has been chronicled on television  and in major motion pictures, including Patton, starring the  award-winning actor George C. Scott. The name has been brought into  the collective consciousness of America and much of the world through  the power of Hollywood, with its impact across borders and languages.

An epic major motion picture that wins numerous awards will be  seen by hundreds of millions of people around the globe, but it is  the story being told that captures the imagination. The Patton saga  is just such a story. The leading character is bigger than life,  certainly as enhanced by the motion picture screen, which conveys the  power and majesty of a persona of inspiring quality, crushing the  enemies of freedom and democracy.

While the story of one general and hero is a central part of  Patton history, it is not the only one. Importantly and  significantly, there is more. The full story involves a son who also  became a general, who participated in two of our most controversial  wars, Korea and Vietnam. The fact is, the complete Patton military  story ends not with General George S. Patton, Jr., but with his son,  a general who fought in wars where the enemy was elusive as were the  solutions to the problems facing America in the post-World War II  era. Telling the story of Major General George S.  Patton requires, however, not only recognizing the career of his father, the

famous field commander of World War II, but going back to the beginning, to set  the scene.

America during the Colonial period was a place where new ideas  flourished, where strangers and newcomers banded together to form communities;  the young country was flexing its new-found power and allegiance to itself  instead of the old country. With just such a backdrop Robert Patton established  himself in the Fredericksburg area, ingratiating himself with the local  citizens while running a tobacco business. Interestingly, whereas many men of  his day fought in the Revolutionary War, Patton did not volunteer, preferring  to remain friendly with both the British and Americans alike. During the war,  however, Patton killed a British officer in a tavern altercation and was forced  to keep a low profile for the remainder of the conflict.

Robert Patton was, if nothing else, a resourceful soul, undaunted by  circumstance, who in the late 1770s would marry the daughter of General Hugh

Mercer, a close friend of George Washington. The union produced six children;  one in particular, John Mercer Patton, went on to a distinguished career,  including service in the United States Congress and as the acting governor of  Virginia. He and his wife, Peggy French Williams, had twelve children, nine of  whom, eight boys and one girl, lived to adulthood.

Seven sons of John and Peggy Mercer Patton would eventually join the  Confederacy. The Civil War not only pitted the South against the North in  America's greatest tragedy but drew into its wide net members of nearly every  family, particularly in the South. The Pattons were no exception, feeling  honor-bound to fight, and doing so with a high degree of dedication and  bravery. Whether viewed from a Northern or Southern perspective, it was an  especially cruel conflict, setting brother against brother and producting  horrific and deadly battlefield technology. The famed "minie ball," as an  example, designed in 1849 by C. E. Minie, a French Army captain,  accounted for 90 percent of the casualties; another 8 percent were caused by

increasingly powerful and accurate artillery.

The Civil War, in which the Pattons played a significant role, was  especially hard on the family. Ruth Ellen once said, "The Patton sons were all  either killed, wounded, or otherwise affected by the Civil War." In addition

to splitting families, the war split the military. By 1861, it is reported, 820  graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point were serving in  the armies of both the North and South, though more than 75 percent remained

loyal to the Northern cause.

The Pattons, as Virginians and loyal to the South, fought on familiar  ground. Virginia evolved as the leading theater of the Civil War; battles,  engagements, and campaigns in Virginia exceeded those of any other state,  including Tennessee. By war's end just under one-third of all military  actions had occurred in Virginia, and extant reports from the  field--including specific indications of their movements in battle by  generals "Stonewall" Jackson and R. S. Ewell, among others--mention the  Pattons in locations throughout the state.

One particular Patton, the fourth child of John and Peggy, was given the  name George Smith; he was the first in a line of Pattons with the same first

name. Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in June 1833, he would eventually  attend the Virginia Military Institute, where he graduated in 1852. After VMI,  Patton set up a law practice and later formed a volunteer militia company, the  Kanawha Rifles, in which he assumed the rank of captain. This company became

Company H of the 22nd Virginia Infantry when it was activated in late April  1861. When the entire regiment was sworn into the Confederate service, Patton  became a lieutenant colonel and was ordered to report to Brigadier General  Henry Wise, a past Virginia governor and now commander of the Army of the  Kanawha.

Patton fought courageously. He was wounded in 1862 but returned to the  war, to be killed in the third battle of Winchester, often called the battle of  Opequon, in September 1864. "At the time Patton was killed in action, his  commission as a general in the Confederate Army was in the mail," said Ruth  Ellen. It was the second death of a son in the war for the Pattons, who had  lost Colonel Waller Tazewell Patton nearly a year before. Today in the  Confederate portion of a cemetery in Winchester, Virginia--a town that  changed hands seventy-two times during the war--is a statue dedicated  on June 6, 1879, "in memory of the 398 Virginia soldiers lying in the cemetery  who fell in defense of Constitutional Liberty and sovereignty of their state

from 1861-1865 a.d."

Nearby is the simple grave of the Patton brothers, lying among friends  and fellow soldiers. The tombstone reads, "In Christ alone perfectly  content." Regarding Colonel W. Tazewell Patton, 7th Virginia Regiment, it  speaks of a Patton "who fell mortally wounded in the charge of Pickett's  division at Gettysburg on the 3rd of July, 1863 in the 29th year of his age";  under Colonel George S. Patton, 22nd Virginia Regiment, it recalls one "who  gave his life in Command of his brigade in defense of Winchester on the 19th of  September, 1864 in the 32nd year of his age."

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