Washington [584]
24 . Ibid.
25 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:449.
26 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 180.
27 . Ibid., 209.
28 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:449.
29 . Ibid.
30 . Stephenson, Patriot Battles, 349.
31 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:451.
32 . Ibid.
33. Ibid., 2:452.
34 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 208.
35 . Unger, Lafayette, 153.
36 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:454.
37 . Freeman, George Washington, 5:356.
38. DiariesA,243.
39 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 227.
40 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 185.
41 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 235.
42 . Schutz and Adair, Spur of Fame, 45.
43 . Wiencek, Imperfect God, 245.
44 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:456.
45 . Stephenson, Patriot Battles, 72.
46 . WWR, 459.
47 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 176.
48 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 194.
49 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:457.
50 . Hague, William Pitt the Younger, 67.
51 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 187.
52 . Stephenson, Patriot Battles, 352.
53 . Martin, Private Yankee Doodle, 241.
54 . Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 187.
55 . Freeman, George Washington, 5:377.
56 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:458.
57 . WWR,464. Letter to Charles Cornwallis, October 17, 1781.
58 . Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 242.
59 . Wiencek, Imperfect God, 247.
60 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:460.
61. DiariesA,240.
62 . WWR,464. Letter to Thomas McKean, October 19, 1781.
63 . Ibid., 468. Letter to Thomas McKean, November 15, 1781.
64 . Callahan,Henry Knox, 188.
65 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:469.
66 . Unger, Lafayette, 162.
67 . Ibid., 164.
68 . Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 138.
69 . Thompson, “In the Hands of a Good Providence,” 116.
70 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:471.
71 . PWRT, 4:489. “George Washington’s Last Will and Testament,” July 9, 1799.
72 . Brady, George Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 21.
73 . Flexner, George Washington, 2:446.
74 . Ibid., 471.
75. Ibid.
76. Irving, Life of George Washington, 558.
77. Henriques, “Saint or Shrew?”
78. Felder, Fielding Lewis and Washington Family, 295.
79. Conkling, Memoirs of Mother and Wife of Washington, 51.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: MAN OF MODERATION
1. Flexner, George Washington, 2:474.
2. WWF,24:495-96. Letter to Chevalier de Chastellux, August 10, 1782.
3. Flexner, George Washington, 2:475.
4. WWF,24:271. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, May 22, 1782.
5. Ibid., 24:91. Letter to Colonel Matthias Ogden, March 28, 1782.
6. Ibid.
7. Wood, “The Making of a Disaster.”
8. Grizzard, George Washington, 18.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 19.
11. Callahan, Henry Knox, 193.
12. WWF,24:307. Letter to Brigadier General Elias Dayton, June 4, 1782.
13. Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, 413.
14. WWF, 24:313-14. “The Address of the Commander in Chief . . . on the Banks of the Hudson, June 5, 1782.”
15. Ibid., 24:273. Letter from Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782.
16. WWR,468-69. Letter to Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782.
17. Ibid.
18. WWF,25:37. Letter to the Reverend William Smith, August 18, 1782.
19. Ibid., 25:151. Letter to James McHenry, September 12, 1782.
20. Ibid., 25:176. Letter to Thomas Paine, September 18, 1782.
21. Ibid., 25:273. Letter to Benjamin Franklin, October 18, 1782.
22. Ibid., 25:142. “General Orders,” September 9, 1782.
23. Ibid., 25:179. “General Orders,” September 18, 1782.
24. Ibid., 25:303. “General Orders,” October 28, 1782.
25. Ibid., 24:488. “General Orders,” August 7, 1782.
26. Ibid., 25:281. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, October 20, 1782.
27. WWR,484. Letter to Nathanael Greene, February 6, 1783.
28. WWF,22:497. Letter to George Walton and Richard Howley, August 13, 1781.
29. WWR,479. Letter to Joseph Jones, December 14, 1782.
30. WWF,25:270. Letter to James McHenry, October 17, 1782.
31. WWR,481. Letter to Tench Tilghman, January 10, 1783.
32. WWF,26:97. Letter to Major General William Heath, February 5, 1783.
33. Ibid., 26:26. Letter to Major General John Armstrong, January 10, 1783.
34. Ibid., 25:465. Letter to Colonel Timothy Pickering, December 25, 1782.
35. WWR,473.