Correction.  My living history website should read www.agsas.org


Anita



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From: Anita Henderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 1:41 pm
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Rommel


One solution to all this is to contact Manfred Rommel his son who I still think 
is alive.  Another resource would be a respected biographer of Rommel.  He may 
have some memory or documentation of this visit.  Based on the sources, it does 
seem probably that Rommel visited the US in the pre World War II era.   Talking 
about connections, George S. Patton knew John Singleton Mosby when he was a 
little boy in California.  In the 1890s, Mosby was a lawyer for I believe the 
Union Pacific RR where Patton's father worked and they frequently took trail 
rides together in which Mosby imparted tales of his CW exploits to the 
impressionable  boy.  Mosby as a child had as his hero Francis Marion the Swamp 
Fox of Rev war fame and had modeled his raids on what Marion had done.  Patton 
in turned modeled his horse cavalry exploits during the Punitive Expedition and 
later his armored cavalry actions on Mosby's actions.  He also had read Rommel's 
books.  It is interesting how military tactics that originated in the 18th 
century were used or expanded on by two brilliant cavalry commanders of the 19th 
and 20th century.  I love connections!!


Anita L. Henderson
Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society www.agsas.org-cook
13th VA Cavalry, Co. H., Light Sussex Dragoons-bugler
interpreting and researching Maria Lewis, black female trooper of the 8th NY 
Cavalry



 

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