Katrina1985@. - Couverture souple

Wright, Marcus J

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798240854323

Editeur : Katrinabooks, 2026

Synopsis

arentage and birth of Scott-Precocity-EntersWilliam andMary College-

Leaves college and commences the study of law with Judge Robinson-

Attends the trial of Burr at Richmond-Impressment of American seamen

and proclamation of President Jefferson-Joins the Petersburg troop-Leaves

for Charleston-Returns to Petersburg-Appointed captain of artillery-Trial

of General Wilkinson-Scott sends in his resignation, but withdraws it and

returns to Natchez-Is court-martialed-On staff duty at New Orleans-Declaration

of war with Great Britain-General Wade Hampton and the Secretary of

War-Hull's surrender-Storming ofQueenstown-March to Lewiston-Scott's

appeal to the officers and soldiers-Indians fire on a flag of truce-Incident

with a Caledonian priest-Letter in relation to Irish prisoners sent home to

be tried for treason.

Winfield Scott was born at Laurel Branch, the estate of his father, four-

teen miles from Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, June 13, 1786. His

grandfather, James Scott, was a Scotchman of the Clan Buccleuch, and a fol-

lower of the Pretender to the throne of England, who, escaping from the de-

feat at Culloden, made hisway to Virginia in1746, where he settled. William,

the son of this James, married Ann Mason, a native of Dinwiddie County

3 MARCUS J. (MARCUS JOSEPH) WRIGHT

and a neighbor of the Scott family. Winfield Scott was the issue of this mar-

riage. There were an elder brother and two daughters. James Scott died at an

early age, when Winfield was but six years old. William, the father of Win-

field, was a lieutenant and afterward captain in a Virginia company which

served in the Revolutionary army. Eleven years after the father's death the

mother died, leaving Winfield, at seventeen years old, to make his own way

in the world.

At the death of his father, Winfield, being but six years old, was left to the

charge of his mother, towhom hewas devotedly attached. It is awell-warranted

tradition of the county in which the Scott family resided, that the mother of

General Scott was a woman of superior mind and great force of character.

In acknowledging the inspiration from the lessons of that admirable parent

for whatever of success he achieved, he was not unlike Andrew Jackson and

the majority of the great men of the world. He wrote of her in his mature

age as follows: "And if, in my now protracted career, I have achieved any-

thing worthy of being written, anything that my countrymen are likely to

honor in the next century, it is from the lessons of that admirable parent that

I derived the inspiration."

In his seventh year he was ordered on a Sunday morning to get ready for

church. Disobeying the order, he ran off and concealed himself, butwas pur-

sued, captured, and returned to his mother, who at once sent for a switch.

The switch was a limb from a Lombardy poplar, and the precocious little

truant, seeing this, quoted a verse from St. Matthew which was from a les-

son he had but recently read to his mother. The quotation was as follows:

"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into

the fire." The quotation was so apt that the punishment was withheld, but

the offender was not spared a very wholesome lesson.

Gener

baptismal name of Winfield. John Winfield survived his daughter, and dy-

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Katrinabooks
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798240854323
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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