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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Custis , George Washington Parke 1781 - (search)
Custis, George Washington Parke 1781-
adopted son of George Washington; born in Mount Airy, Md., April 30, 1781; was a grandson of Mrs. Washington.
His father was John Parke Custis, and his mother was Eleanor Calvert, of Maryland.
At the siege of Yorktown his father was aide-de-camp to Washington; was seized with camp-fever ton (who hastened thither immediately after the surrender) could reach his bedside.
Washington afterwards adopted his two children—Eleanor Parke and George Washington Parke Custis—as his own. Their early home was at Mount Vernon.
George was educated partly at Princeton, and was eighteen years of age at the time of Washington's his will and left him a handsome estate, on which he lived, until his death, Oct. 10, 1857, in literary, artistic, and agricultural pursuits.
In his early days Mr. Custis was an eloquent speaker; and in his later years he produced a series of historical pictures, valuable, not as works of art, but for the truthfulness of the cost
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette , Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier , Marquis de 1757 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , Robert Edward 1807 - (search)
Wakefield estate,
In Virginia, the birthplace of George Washington; about half a mile from the junction of Pope's Creek with the Potomac, in Westmoreland county.
The house was destroyed before the Revolution, but upon its site George W. P. Custis placed a slab of freestone, June, 1815, with the simple inscription: Here, the 11th of February (O. S.), 1732, George Washington was born.