I have often written about my Grandfather, George Robb, both in the blog and in my old webpage www.snowbizz.com.
Recently the coauthor of the definitive history of the Infantry Division that my Grandfather fought with, Jeffery Sammons, contacted me. He’d visited both my Grandfather’s old home, Salina, Kansas, and the Kansas State Historical Museum. He told me that had he found this information earlier it would have been put in the book and improved it. Today he sent me one small find from yet another source I’ve never seen. Its a scrap of archive that survived a great inferno in St. Louis back in 1973, a year after my Grandfather’s death. The conflagration destroyed a lot of the nation’s military archives.
This is one of the battlefield commendations that was used to justify award George Robb the Congressional Medal of Honor. Below it I’ve linked to a larger more readable facsimile of the document.
Battlefield commendation full sized.
I’d much rather spend my time writing about this than the Duluth School Board.
