The illustrated life of Washington ...

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Preface

In preparing this work, my design has been to popularize the Life of Washington by confining myself to events and incidents intimately connected with him and his movements, and thus make the work less voluminous than it would be if it embraced a more detailed history of concurrent events.

Recent collections of documents throwing new light on the war of the Revolution made such a work desirable. Mr. Lossing, by his researches, has exhumed a vast amount of interesting matter. All of Rufus Putnam's papers and correspondence and diary have also been put in my hands, which shed an entirely new light on some of the most interesting events of the Revolution, and movements of Washington. The reader will, therefore, find a vast number of facts in this work which have never before appeared in any Life of Washington, but which add greatly to the interest which surrounds his character. The Historical Societies of different States have also yielded me, by their valuable collections, much aid. Their efforts for the last few years to gather and preserve old documents and letters, which were fast passing away, have added greatly to the material for any work connected with the Revolution. The amount of my indebtedness to these new sources of information will be readily perceived by the reader. As to the rest, I have consulted the usual authorities on that period of our history, a list of which would be too long to give in this place

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

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Portrait of Washington, from an Original Painting by Stuart in the Bostoa Athenaeum, 1 Portrait of Washington at the age of forty, from an Original Fainting in the possession

Putnam lleceiviug the Intelligence of the Battle of Lexington 175

Lafayette's Last Interview with Louis Sixteenth and ilarie Antoinette before his Departure for America 301

Washington at Valley Forge 373

The Oath at Valley Forge 385

WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

Washington and his Mother 19 y/'

Death of Jumonville ^8^'

Defeat of Braddock 61 '•

Burial of Braddock 75 •

Planting of the Royal Flag on the Ruins of Fort Duquesne 90 -

Chairing Colonel Wood as proxy for Washington 103

Washington's Wedding 115

Washington Dragging the Poacher Ashore 125

Descending the Ohio 14;5

Chr'stening the Liberty Tree 155

Duche's Prayer in Congress 165

Scene at Stockbridge, on Receiving News of the Battle of Lexington 185

Knox entering Camp with Artillery 193

Evacuation of Boston 209

The Bellman informed of the Passage of the Declaration of Independence 222

Tearing Down the Statue of George III 2S1

Young Callender Fighting his Gun 242' ,

Washington endeavoring to Rally the Fugitives £51 '-^

Quakei Lady Detaining the Enirlish General ,-. -- --^ • 262^ viiL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

WaahingtoD and Captain Forest iuquiriDg for the Hessian Picket 271

WashiogtoQ at Princeton 291

Countrj-men Joining the Army under Gates 811

Washington Urging the Countryman to Greater Speed 828

Night Attack at Paoli 835

Attack on Fort Mifflin 847

Abandoning the Vessels at Gloucester 8C1

Washington and Lee at Monmouth 8<j7

Washington Taking Leave of the Armj 434

Washington at the Deathbed of young Custis M5

Washington Taking Leave of his Mother 'OT

Washington as a Farmer 'TO