Well that's weird. I just posted this twice and it didn't show up! Try again:

Sheesh! I've already received an answer! Claymore, thanks, again! GUEST, Q was spot on. Sharon had a mention of this, too, plus Nicole was on the right track and I even had a couple of good guesses. Here's the reply form the Harper's Ferry folk:

Subject: Re: image
To: Kat LaFrance

Branch Historian John King just walked in the office and provided the following:

Your pass says "Camp Gauley Mt."    This is named after a camp in West
Virginia. There is a town there today and famous for white water boating.

At the bottom is Lt Col Commanding Post rather than Connely.

Good luck in your research efforts,

Melinda Day
Period Exhibits Branch

Now, that tells dad and me more about an old story about my gggranddad Abe. It seems he and a couple of cousins were in the middle of some white water when they lost a paddle or it broke. This left them without any way to navigate and they were fast coming up to some falls. Along about then, one of them yelled, "Abe, if you know any prayers, ya better say 'em now!" Well, ol' Abe couldn't think of anything but the following, so he yelled it out, "Here's your bread, here's your meat, now, you sonsabitches, eat!" Along about that time, some old boy on shore saw them and threw them a rope, thus saving them from the jaws of the falls.

Ever since I can remember that has been a "prayer" in our family. Now I will have to see if Camp Gauley Mtn. and Kanawha Falls are near one another and I may have the location of the story!

I love Mudcat!! Thank you so very much!

kat