All eulogy is superfluous.

We see the young Virginia boy, born in aristocratic conditions, with but a meagre education, but trained by the sports and rural occupations of his home in perfect manliness, in courage, in self-reliance, in resourcefulness.

Some one instilled into him moral precepts which fastened upon his young conscience and would not let him go.

At twenty he was physically a young giant capable of enduring any hardship and of meeting any foe.

He ran his surveyor's chain far into the wilderness to the west of Mount Vernon.