Fort Patton
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Forget about Patton. All his paternal ancestors fought in the CSA. Virginia.
Patton’s paternal ancestors were from central Virginia, originally Fredericksburg and later Culpeper. His grandfather, VMI graduate George Patton, became colonel of the 22d Virginia and served in the Shenandoah Valley and on the mountainous front between Virginia and West Virginia. George Patton suffered a mortal wound on 19 September 1864 at the Third Battle of Winchester as his brigade was overwhelmed by Union cavalry. He is buried in Winchester today.
The Patton family gave others (a total of 8) to the Confederate Army, all serving with the Army of Northern Virginia. Four did not survive the war. Most famously, George Patton’s brother Waller Tazewell Patton died at the head of the 7th Virginia during Pickett’s Charge. The war and its aftermath ruined the Pattons, and in 1866 Colonel Patton’s widow (the grandmother of General Patton) packed up the family to join some cousins in California. Without the Civil War, General Patton would have been born in Virginia.
For the future General Patton, the family saga in the Civil War was a defining element in his life. As a child, the future General Patton grew up playing with his grandfather’s sword from Third Winchester. He also met and was mesmerized by John S. Mosby, the great cavalry commander.
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2013/12/21/civil-war-echoes-general-patton/