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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Maps
Prologue: Casting Lots for His Garments, July 1802: “There was something in the whole scene … that shocked me.”
Book One: The Colonel and His Lady, 1758–1775
1. Colonial Colonel: “no prospect of preferment”
2. Dandridge’s Daughter: “I shall yearly ship a considerable part of the tobacco I make to you.”
3. North and South: “the animating prospect of possessing Mrs Custis”
4. Mount Vernon, Fairfax County: “Mr Bassett will inform you of the mirth and gaiety that he has seen.”
5. Family Affairs: “a promising boy … and will possess a very large fortune”
6. Acts and Associations: “many Luxuries which we lavish our substance to Great Britain for”
7. Fevers and Physicians: “Miss Custis’s Complaint … rather Increases than abates.”
8. The Schooling of Jacky Custis: “His Mind … more ever turnd to Dogs Horses & Guns.”
9. Death and Adjustment: “the lowest ebb of Misery”
10. Continental Army: “the Crisis is arrived when we must assert our Rights”
Book Two: The General and “Lady Washington,” 1775–1783
11. Taking Command, 1775: “I have sent an Invitation to Mrs Washington to come to me.”
12. Besieging Boston, 1775–1776: “a number of cannon and shells from Boston and Bunkers Hill”
13. New York and Philadelphia, 1776: “the place shall not be carried without some loss”
14. Retreat to the Delaware, 1776–1777: “I think the game is pretty near up.”
15. Morristown and Brandywine, 1777: “Mrs Washington is excessive fond of the General and he of her.”
16. Valley Forge, 1777–1778: “No bread, no soldier.”
17. Philadelphia and Middlebrook, New Jersey, 1778–1779: “His Excellency and Mrs Greene danced upwards of three hours.”
18. The Hard Winter: Morristown, 1779–1780: “so extremely cold, that there was no living abroad”
19. Home and Headquarters, 1780–1781: “she reminded me of the Roman matrons”
20. Victory on the York and Private Grief, 1781: “General goes to Colonel Bassett’s where Mr Custis is very ill”
21. Uncertainty and Disaffection, 1781–1783: “this long and bloody contest”
22. Peace on the Hudson, 1783: “I now see the Port opening to which I have been steering.”
Book Three: After the War, 1784–1802
23. Mount Vernon, 1784–1786: “You will see the plain manner in which we live …”
24. Conventions and Elections, 1787–1789: “a tendency to sweep me back into the tide of public affairs”
25. New York Houses, 1789–1790: “The President to accept no invitations …”
26. Market Street, Philadelphia, 1790–1793: “events which are governed by the public voice”
27. Second Term, 1793–1797: “the Turpitude of the Jacobins touches him more nearly than he owns”
28. Retirement, 1797–1798: “Rooms to Paint—Paper—Whitewash &ca &ca”
29. The Death of a President, 1799: “I die hard; but I am not afraid to go.”
30. Dissolution, 1799–1802: “we found this excellent Woman grieving incessantly”
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Bibliography
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Other Titles
Illustrations
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