[concentric circles]

Patton guided for a higher purpose? It's not that small a club. His entire life seemed to be a form of training for the fulfillment of a single purpose.

I found it to be a remarkable bit of fate that, as a lad, he should have been out riding in the foothills of the San Gabriels near his home in southern California and encountered none other than an elderly John Singleton Mosby riding horseback on the same trails.

The chance meeting led to a relationship and many succeeding visits, a nearly mystical passing of a warriors mantle.

[yarddog]

I did not know how they met but in his biography it is mentioned that Mosby was often a house guest at the Pattons which makes me think he stayed overnight with them. Also he instructed the young George on Guerilla tactics.

I am sure they got on well because both of Patton's Grandfathers were Confederate officers, I think one a general and one a colonel.

[Leatherneck_MT]

That's a story I had never heard. Thanks for passing that on.

[MissEdie]

Pardon my ignornance, but who is John Singleton Mosby?