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1859 Memoirs Of George Washington American Revolution Revolutionary War For Sale
Memoirs of Washington
by
Mrs. C. M. Kirkland
Folks, this book is 159 years old!
COPYRIGHT: 1856 with 1859 on title page
PUBLISHER: D. Appleton & Co.
PAGES: 516 pgs. measuring 7.5" x 5"
CONDITION: This book has rec'd some TLC and is now in solid
condition. The spine has been recovered with black leather with part of
the original spine laid on. The inside front and rear hinges are
reinforced with black archival linen. There are no signs of previous
ownership. Board corners have wear and bumping. Text block is solid
with no loose or missing pages. Pages have some foxing and minor stains (no moisture marks); pages are not
brittle. A solid book.
Chapters:
I. Washington's private papers • Little box in
the State Department • Virginia Almanac • Care
of Washington in preserving and preparing these papers •
Variety of subjects treated in them • The use that has been
made of them by his biographers • A more private and
personal account still possible, partly by addition, partly by omission
II. English ancestors of Washington • Letter of Sir
Henry • Family annals • Curious tradition in
England • -Intermarriages in Virginia •
Washington's birthplace • Old house suffered to go to
ruin • Plain and simple manners of the day in
Virginia • Advantages of these to Washington •
Associations with the Potomac and its shores
III. Mr. Augustin Washington • Merits of Mr. Weems's little
book • Family legends reported by him • Lesson
in generosity • Another in natural religion •
Country life and the love of it
IV. The mother of Washington • Her characteristics and those of
her children • Her early estimate of her eldest son • What
he was in youth • His only sister's resemblance to him •
Mrs. W.'s only weakness • Simplicity of her manners •
"Little George" • Obligations of great men to their mothers
• Almost forgotten • Duty and virtue of Obedience
V. Out-of-door habits • Alfred the Great, and
Napoleon • Influence on a generous mind of wide possessions
and the power they confer • Plantation life •
Field school • "Old Hobby" • Mother's practice of
reading with her children • The Great Audit •
The widow's lot • Was Washington deficient in tenderness •
Softening power of piety • Early love affairs •
Washington's later gravity • Love of children • Its
advantages • Proofs of goodness of heart
VI. A new school and new master • No Latin • A good
head can make more out of one language than a poor one out of half a
dozen • Washington head boy, of course •
Military sports and national predilections • Washington a man of
peace, after all • Early handwriting • Neatness
of his school papers • Practice in mercantile forms
• Robust physical exercises one grand clement in his training
• Pitching a stone • Love of horses and riding
VII. Washington little indebted to books • Early reading
limited, but good • His mother's idea of true kindness •
Habit of writing a great deal • Its advantages and possible
disadvantages • How it affected Washington's after life
• Poetry book • "Rules of Civility and Decent
Behavior" • Their influence on his character • His
style of writing, excellent, plain, pure English
VIII. Esteem of his brothers for Washington • Lawrence
always his friend and benefactor • Fortunes of the
family • George at Mount Vernon • Receives a
midshipman's warrant • Gives way to his mother's wishes and
stays at home • Learns military tactics and fencing
• Contents himself with learning to be a good surveyor
• Extreme accuracy of his papers • Old desk
• Curious memorandum
IX. First surveying tour • Groves of sugar trees
• Indian dance • People that wouldn't speak
English • Rough living • Good pay •
Tender passion • Poetic taste not very prominent
• Lord Fairfax • Planter life • High-bred
manners • Letters to ladies
X. Important epoch in life • Appointment as
adjutant-general against the French • Called upon to go to
the West Indies • Matter-of-fact observations there •
Seized with small-pox • Washingtonian touch •
Returns home • Succeeds to Mount Vernon on the death of his
brother • Circumstances force him too early into
affairs • Becomes a member of the Masonic fraternity
XI. Contemporary history • George II. and his court •
Rudeness of manners • General corruption •
Incorrect spelling • Swift • Pope • Bolingbroke
• Chesterfield • Lady M. W. Montague • Burke •
Pitt • Marlborough • Admiral Vernon • Duke of
Cumberland • Flora Macdonald • C. J. Fox • George III.
• Wolfe • Burns • Cowper • Continental European
sovereigns
XII. Preparation • Military duties • Skill recognized by
the governor • Embassy to the French commandant • Perilous
journey • Indian Queen
XIII. Report to the Governor • Journal published in England
• French and Indians more troublesome than ever • Supplies
very slow • Colonel "Washington rather indignant • Death of
Jumonville • Misrepresentations respecting it • The mild
and peaceful character of Washington's mind
XIV. Ill success at first • Surrender of Fort Necessity •
French aggressions • Complaints • General Braddock's defeat
XV. Death of General Braddock • His estimate of Washington
• Discontents • Exultation of the French • New
appointments • Terrible alarm of the people • Emotion of
Washington • Journey to Boston • Introduction to Miss Mary
Philipse • Esteem in which Washington was held
XVI. Active people apt to be low-spirited when they are ill •
Health brings enterprise • Adoption of the hunting-shirt •
Difference of opinion on road-making • Vexatious delays •
Benefits of experience • More remonstrances • Resignation
XVII. A new acquaintance and new interest • A fair lady with a
fair fortune • Marriage and housekeeping • Handsome
compliment and natural embarrassment • View of plantation-life
and its requirements • Fashions of the day • Rural life not
exempt from them
XVIII. Quiet life • Training for the future • Country
habits • Hunting and surveying • Boundless hospitality •
Dancing school • Sick neighbors • Small-pox among the
negroes • The bread-and-butter ball • Exact calculations
XIX. Washington a domestic man • Attention to his step-children
• Lists for England • Mrs. Washington a doting mother •
Washington strict but not severe • Generally beloved •
Always doing service • Death of Miss Custis and Washington's
emotion • Difficulties of Virginia housekeeping and farming • Two
temperance sermons
XX. Public affairs not forgotten • Independent companies •
Organized resistance • Fairfax Resolves • Economy and
self-denial • Non-importation act • Boston Port Bill •
Public fast • Patrick Henry's opinion of Washington
XXI. Remonstrance changing to hostility • An army to he raised
• A general wanted • Several candidates • Choice
falls on Washington • His acceptance and stipulation • Letters to
his wife
XXII. The battle of Bunker Hill already fought • Washington
hurries on • Takes command under the Great Elm at Cambridge
• The impression he makes • Letters to General Gage
• Want of money, clothing, powder, and all the necessaries of war
• Sarcasms cast upon the supineness of the army and its general
• Cares and troubles of Washington • His patience under them
XXIII. Doings at Mount Vernon • Some fears of the enemy
• Washington's confidence in his agent • Care for the
poor • Mrs. Washington's journey to head-quarters
• Respect of the people • Her influence •
Rural tastes • Plain, generous hospitality
XXIV. Distress of Boston • Anxieties on both sides • Both
actuated by British spirit • Arrogance of the invaders
• Burlesque comedy outdone by General Putnam •
Failure of Lord Percy • Resolve to evacuate the town
• Hurried retreat • Triumphal entry of American troops
XXV Transfer of the troops to New York • Difficulties
there • Machinations of the Tories • British
head-quarters on Staten Island • Declaration of
Independence • Letter to " George Washington, Esq." •
Battle of Long Island • Dreadful loss • Retreat
across the East River
XXVI. Discouragement of the army • General Howe threatens
New York • Talk of burning the city •
Washington fortifies Harlem • Cowardice of some of the
troops there • Retreat to White Plains •
Illiterate officers • Disaster there • Capture
of Fort Washington • Temporary defection of Colonel Reed
XXVII. Lee's advice • His jealousy of Washington
• Delays in obeying orders • Endeavoring 'At make an
independent movement, to the injury of the commander-in-chief
• Cabals against Washington • Lee's capture by the
British • Retreat across the Jerseys • Position
and prospects of the Army -New powers granted by Congress
XXVIII. Public patience wearing out • The art of retreating
• Recruiting • Some accessions to
the army give rise to new hopes and new projects • Hard duty
• Crossing the Delaware • Surprise of the Hessians • Battle of
Trenton • Entrance into Philadelphia • Battle of Princeton • Anecdotes
of Washington's bravery
XXIX. Army marched to Germantown • Lafayette's arrival • Battles of
Chad's Ford and White Marsh • Winter quarters at Valley Forge •
Suffering of the troops • Mrs. Washington's Kindness • Washington's
sympathy and remonstrances • Cabel against the commander-in-chief •
Indignation of his friends • Conway's repentance • Half-pay for the
troops • Alliances with the French • Battle of Monmouth
XXX. Arrival of Count d'Estaing • Hindrances and disasters •
Disagreement between French and American officers • Letter to Lafayette
• Impatience of the people • Generosity of Lafayette
XXXI. Washington at Philadelphia with Congress • Then in the country
hunting squirrels • Devastations of the enemy on Long Island • Capture
of Stoney Point by General Wayne • Generous conduct of Washington •
General Lee's questions • Dinner at West Point • Depreciation of the
currency • Kindness of the ladies of Philadelphia
XXXII. Sufferings of the troops • Treachery of Arnold • Capture and
death of Major Andre • Letter to Mr. Laurens • Mutiny of the
Pennsylvania line • Its suppression by lenity • Mutiny of the New
Jersey line • Severity on this occasion • Letter to Dr. Franklin
XXXIII. Co-operation of the French fleet and army • Arnold's ravages in
Virginia • Lafayette operating against Lord Cornwallis there • Story of
Morgan • French fleet sails for the Chesapeake • Washington going to
the seat of war with Count Rochambeau, visits Mount Vernon for the
first time since June, 1775
XXXIV. Capitulation of Yorktown • British troops lay down their arms •
Generous sentiments • Cautions of Washington • Moderation in victory •
Joy and gratitude of the nation • Death of Mr. John Parke Custis
XXXV. Sufferings of the army tempt some men to treasonous thoughts •
Indignation of Washington and his rebuke • Pacification of the troops •
News of PEACE • Persons still living who remember those times •
Washington travels in Western New York • The British evacuate New York
• Washington takes leave of his companions in arms • Returns his
commission to Congress
XXXVI. Personal habits of Washington at home • Anecdote from
Watson • Washington an early riser • Care of his farm • Reading aloud
in evening • Regular at church • Abstemious in eating and drinking •
His love and care of
Mount Vernon, and the description he gave of the estate • Attending to
other
people's affairs • Number of letters he wrote while at home
XXXVII. State of the Union after the War • Convention for forming
the Constitution • Washington's progress to New York • His inauguration
as first
President of the United States • Labors and excitement afterward •
Severe illness • Death of his mother • Her character • How much was her
son indebted to
her? • Character of his wife
XXXVIII. Presidential tour • A careless groom • Observations
on the country • Internal improvements • Washington's desire to resign
• The
remonstrances of his friends
• His re-election • Difficulties with France
• Jay's Treaty • Citizen Genet • Retirement of Washington
XXXIX. Washington's short enjoyment of repose • His illness,
sufferings and death • Funeral ceremonies • Grief of the nation •
Resolutions of
Congress • Request for his remains • Mrs. Washington's reply • Our
responsibilities as countrymen of Washington
XL. Washington's opinions on slavery • His Will and its
provisions • His morals • His religion • Testimony of various persons
as to his habits of
devotion
Illustrations:
Washington arresting a poacher at Mount Vernon • Washington's
visit to Queen Aliquippa • Washington surrounded by the
Distressed Inhabitants of the Borders • Washington in the Family Circle
• Washington at the bedside of Mrs. Custis • Washington assuming the
Command at Cambridge • Washington at the Battle of Long Island •
Washington at Valley Forge •
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