American Statesmen
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In Two Volumes
VOL. I.
By
HENRY CABOT LODGE
1899
Frontispiece I.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Frontispiece II.
The Home of the Washington Family
PREFACE
This edition has been carefully revised, and although very little has been added of late years to our knowledge of the facts of Washington's life, I have tried to examine all that has appeared. The researches of Mr. Waters, which were published just after these volumes in the first edition had passed through the press, enable me to give the Washington pedigree with certainty, and have turned conjecture into fact. The recent publication in full of Lear's memoranda, although they tell nothing new about Washington's last moments, help toward a completion of all the details of the scene.
H.C. LODGE.
WASHINGTON, February 7, 1898.
Table of Contents
Chapter I — THE OLD DOMINION
Chapter II — THE WASHINGTONS
Chapter III — ON THE FRONTIER
Chapter IV — LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Chapter V — TAKING COMMAND
Chapter VI — SAVING THE REVOLUTION
Chapter VII — MALICE DOMESTIC, AND FOREIGN LEVY
Chapter VIII — THE ALLIES
Chapter IX — ARNOLD'S TREASON, AND THE WAR IN THE SOUTH
Chapter X — YORKTOWN
Chapter XI — PEACE
List of Illustrations
From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenæum and is known as the Athenæum portrait.
Autograph is from Washington's signature to a bill of exchange, from "Talks about Autographs" by George Birkbeck Hill.
VIGNETTE of the RESIDENCE of the WASHINGTON FAMILY
From "Homes of American Statesman," published by Alfred W. Putnam, New York.
From an original painting in the possession of Lawrence Washington, Esq., Alexandria, Va., a great-great-great-nephew.
Autograph from MS. in New York Public Library, Lenox Building.