Post by elisabeth on Jan 30, 2006 10:21:29 GMT -6
In the LBHA Newsletter from May 2003 (thanks for that, Diane!) there's a tantalising piece of information: a letter from Charles F. Bobo, son of Sgt. Edwin Bobo, to the Editor of Winners of the West -- Vol. 13, No. 8, dated July 1936.
Bobo Jr. says: "Comrade Hendricks inquired in a recent issue ... about a song written by Gustave Korn in memory of Commanche [sic] and expressed a desire to obtain a copy through your press. I am enclosing the song so you may comply with his request."
So the song must have existed! (Though it can't have been "in memory of", strictly speaking, as Korn died before Comanche.)
Anyone know anything about this? It's especially intriguing in the light of Korn's apparently perpetual silence on all other matters, such as the battle. Might there be clues in the lyrics, one wonders ...?
Bobo Jr. says: "Comrade Hendricks inquired in a recent issue ... about a song written by Gustave Korn in memory of Commanche [sic] and expressed a desire to obtain a copy through your press. I am enclosing the song so you may comply with his request."
So the song must have existed! (Though it can't have been "in memory of", strictly speaking, as Korn died before Comanche.)
Anyone know anything about this? It's especially intriguing in the light of Korn's apparently perpetual silence on all other matters, such as the battle. Might there be clues in the lyrics, one wonders ...?
