. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ng cavalier and anexcellent scribe. He served Washington nearly five years, dur-ing Avhich he was in every action in which the main army wasengaged. General Lloyd Tilghman, a descendant, Avho foughton the Confederate side in the late war, was captured at FortHenry and confined for some time at Fort AVarren, in Bostonharbor. He appeared again in r)Oston at the festival of theSociety of the Cincinnati in 1872 as the representative of hisbrave ancestor. AYhile loitering in the apartments devoted to official business,it may not be uninteresting to refer
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ng cavalier and anexcellent scribe. He served Washington nearly five years, dur-ing Avhich he was in every action in which the main army wasengaged. General Lloyd Tilghman, a descendant, Avho foughton the Confederate side in the late war, was captured at FortHenry and confined for some time at Fort AVarren, in Bostonharbor. He appeared again in r)Oston at the festival of theSociety of the Cincinnati in 1872 as the representative of hisbrave ancestor. AYhile loitering in the apartments devoted to official business,it may not be uninteresting to refer to the chirography of theleaders of the Continental army, most of whom handled thesword and pen equally well. Washingtons characters werelarge, round, and never appear to have been penned in wrote indifferently when he entered the army, but hishand soon became straggling and difficult to decipher, his mindbeing so much more active than his pen that his ^IS. is Idledwith interlineations. Greene wrote a fair, clear, running-hand ;. HEADQUARTEES OF THE ARMY. 301 his language couched in good, terse phrase. Wayne, far frombeing the boor that Andres epic makes him, not only held afluent, but a graphic pen, as witness his despatch : — • Stonet Point, 16tli July, 1779, —2 oclock, a. m. Dear General,—The fort and garrison, with Colonel Johnston,are ours. Our ofiicers and men behaved like men who are deter-mined to be free. Yours most sincerely, Ant^ Wayne. Gates wrote a handsome, round hand; so did Schuyler, , Sidlivan, and Stirling. Lee took rather more care of hishandwriting than of his dress ; his characters are bold andlegible. Lafayette wrote like a Frenchman. Steubens andChastelluxs were rather an improvement on Lafayettes diminu-tive strokes. Whatever may be said of Washingtons Fabian policy, it iscertain the pugnacious element was not wanting in his charac-ter. He wished to carry Boston by assault, but was overruledby his council; he wished to fight a
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