JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.

1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,

BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

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PREFATORY.

The Character of George Washington, as delineated by Thomas

Jefferson

YOUTH.

1. Rules written for his own Guidance in his Fourteenth Year

2. A Surveyor at Sixteen

AS A YOUTHFUL SOLDIER IN THE OLD FRENCH WAR.

1. His Modest Confidence at Twenty-two

2. He will have just Pay or no Pay .

3. Colonial Officers must stand upon the same Footing as

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British Officers

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4. Hardships of the Service

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5. The Disputes with General Braddock

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6 He gives General Braddock good Advice

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7. The Consequences

8. A Commanding Officer should have the Appointing of his

Subordinates

14. The Curse of Undisciplined Militia enlisted for Short Terms

16. Bounty-Jumping in the Olden Time

A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.

1. He was a Book Farmer

2. He desires to visit London

8. His Taste in Dress

4. The Careful Planter

5. The Weight of Wheat in Washington's Day

6. He will have his Rights

7. His Generosity to a Friend

8. His Opposition to the Stamp Act

9. He resents an Indignity

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION.

1. The only Extant Letter to his Wife

2. Care for Poor Neighbors during his Absence from Home

3. The Treatment of Prisoners of War

4. His Second Letter on the Same Subject

5. Three Paragraphs from his Orders to General Arnold for