Existing comment:
"I shall be tied down with this border patrol indefinitely... and am really fortunate to have something to do."
-- Brigadier General John J. Pershing to family friend Anne Boswell, November 3, 1915 (on loan from Andrew Carroll)
John Pershing expressed his grief with this black-edged mourning stationery. In late 1915, while Pershing was stationed away from his family, a house fire claimed he lives of his wife Frances and their three daughters. His young son Warren survived, but Pershing's loss was profound. He stayed busy at Fort Bliss, Texas, contending with instability along the border caused by the ongoing revolution in Mexico. |