Defiant Brides by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780807001189
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2013-05-03T14:00:00+00:00

Hopes for a son’s tales about Yorktown for another generation of the Washingtons were crushed when George and Martha’s son, Jackie, died on November 5 from “putrid fever.” Struck by the juxtaposition of that tragedy with the triumph at Yorktown, Knox wrote General Biddle that the Washingtons “amidst flattering public prospects have received the most fatal blow to their domestic felicity.”49

A week after Jackie’s death, the Washingtons returned to Mount Vernon. Obliged to appear before Congress, but grieving nearly as deeply as Martha, Washington consequently brought his wife to Philadelphia on November 20. Before long the Knoxes would join them, for, as Henry explained to General Benjamin Lincoln, he intended to remain with Lucy “until the moment of her difficulty shall be over.”50 Proudly, he wrote General Greene on December 12 that Lucy had “presented me with another son,” whom they named Camillus Marcus.51 Washington was to be his godfather.

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