Colonel Washington. By Archer Butler Hulbert. Published from the Income _of_ the Francis G. Butler Publication Fund _of_ Western Reserve University. 1902. COLONEL WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED FROM THE INCOME OF THE FRANCIS G. BUTLER PUBLICATION FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY. 1902 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1902 by ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. NOTE. The following pages contain a glimpse of the youth Washington when he first stepped into public view. It is said the President and General are known to us but “George Washington is an unknown man.” Those, to whom the man is lost in the official, may well consider Edward Everett’s oration in which the conduct of the youth Washington is carefully described--that the orator’s audience might see “not an ideal hero, wrapped in cloudy generalities and a mist of vogue panegyric, but the real identical man.” A. B. H. Marietta, Ohio, Nov. 28, 1901. CONTENTS. I. A Prologue: The Governor’s Envoy. II. The Story of the Campaign. III. Fort Necessity and Its Hero. ILLUSTRATIONS. Site of Fort Necessity Frontispiece The Route Through the Alleghanies Page 26 “Lowdermilk’s Map of Fort Necessity” " 32 “Washington’s Rock,” " 34 Grape Shot Found Near Fort Necessity " 40 Spark’s Map of Fort Necessity " 42 Lewis’s Map of Fort Necessity " 48 “Frontier Forts” Map " 50 Views of Remains of Fort Necessity " 52 Diagrams of Fort Necessity " 54 [Illustration: SITE OF FORT NECESSITY. The outline of the Southern embankment is in the fore-ground. The hill is locally known as Mount Washington; the brick mansion stands on the old National road and was known as Sampey’s Tavern. From this hill the French first attacked the little Virginian army under Washington in the fort.] COLONEL WASHINGTON. I. A PROLOGUE; THE GOVERNOR’S ENVOY. A thousand vague rumors came over the Allegheny mountains during the year 1753 to Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia, of French aggressions into the Ohio River valley, the more alarming because vague and uncertain.