or the Adamses did evince, a
determined resolution to stake his reputation and his life
on the issue of arms, and that he resigned his commission
when the post of imminent danger was refused him, exhibit a
lucid proof that, whatever may have been his ultimate
fortune, he was not deficient in two grand elements of
military success,--personal enterprise, and unquestioned
courage."[230]

FOOTNOTES:

[195] _Hist. Mag._ for Aug. 1867, 92.

[196] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 375.

[197] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1902.

[198] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1834.

[199] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1849.

[200] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1850, 1851.

[201] _Ibid._ ii. 1852.

[202] _Ibid._ ii. 1878.

[203] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1879, 1883.

[204] _Ibid._ ii. 1884, 1885.

[205] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1902.

[206] MS.

[207] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 377.

[208] _Ibid._ iii. 377, 378.

[209] _Ibid._ iii. 378.

[210] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 393. See, also, his oath of office, _ibid._
iii. 411.

[211] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 776.

[212] Wirt, 159.

[213] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 1067.

[214] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 1713-1715.

[215] Graphic contemporary accounts of this battle may be found in 4
_Am. Arch._ iv. 224, 228, 229.

[216] Wirt, 178.

[217] 4 _Am. Arch._ iii. 1962.

[218] _Ibid._ iv. 1669.

[219] _Ibid._ iv. 1517.

[220] _Ibid._ iv. 1515, 1516.

[221] 4 _Am. Arch._ iv. 1516; also, Wirt, 180, 181.

[222] 4 _Am. Arch._ iv. 1516.

[223] 4 _Am. Arch._ iv. 1516, 1517.

[224] _Ibid._ iv. 1518.

[225] 4 _Am. Arch._ iv. 1519.

[226] Wirt, 175.

[227] _Writings of Washington_, iii. 309.

[228] W. B. Reed, _Life of Joseph Reed_, i. 173.

[229] Grigsby, _Va. Conv. of 1776_, 52, 53, note.

[230] Grigsby, _Va. Conv. of 1776_, 151, 152.

CHAPTER XII

INDEPENDENCE

Upon this mortifying close of a military career which had opened with
so much expectation and even _eclat_, Patrick Henry returned, early in
March, 1776, to his home in the county of Hanover,--a home on which
then rested the shadow of a great sorrow. In the midst of the public
engagements and excitements which absorbed him during the previous
year, his wife, Sarah, the wife of his youth, the mother of his six
children, had passed away. His own subsequent release from public
labor, however bitter in its occasion, must have brought to him a
great solace in the few weeks of repose which he then had under his
own roof, with the privilege of ministering to the happ