Scrapbook page 15

Title

Scrapbook page 15

Creator

Ochs, Adolph Shelby, Jr.

Identifier

T100486

Date

unknown

Description

Note expressing congratulations to "Lieutenant-Colonel Ochs," from "A," with a poem about both brothers' commissions.

Source

Gift of Rev. Shelby Ochs Owen

Subject

Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918

Contributor

Rachel Dark

Language

English

Is Part Of

Ochs Collection Scrapbook

Text

Lieutenant-Colonel Ochs, I salute you!
Accept my heartiest congratulations. I’m too delighted to express myself sensibly:

O! Mother dear! O! Mother dear!
Look what you went and done!
Raised an army in a year
To fight the dam’ old Hun.

Two lieutenants of Cavalree
A captain – and – what other?
Grew upon your family tree
A charming wee God-Mother.

And now you add unto your line
Lieutenant-Kernels, one.
Oh, Mother mine O! Mother mine!
Look what you went and done!

A

OK
Adolph S Ochs Jr
2nd Lt. Cav. USR.

Original Format

Letter

To

Ochs, William Van Dyke

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/T100486.pdf

Citation

Ochs, Adolph Shelby, Jr., “Scrapbook page 15,” unknown, T100486, Adolph S. Ochs Jr. Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.