Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Memoirs of a Staff-Officer Serving in Virginia: Edited, From the Mss; Of Colonel Surry
He left in his will the curious injunction that the eldest son of the family in every generation Should Sign his name, Surry Of eagle's-nest; so my father always called himself, and I have followed the family habit. My father was the fifth or sixth in descent from Philip I., and here his name. He was the soul of benevolence and kindness. Intellectually, he was the greatest man I ever knew. At the bar Of the Court of Appeals Of Vir ginia he ranked with the Old race Of lawyers, Marshall, Wirt, Wickham, and Leigh - all his intimate friends; but as his hair had grown gray he had retired from the profession, and spent his days at home in the country. He has died since the beginning of the war, but his portrait is yonder, a tall and stately figure, with a noble countenance, clear loyal eyes, and a smile of exqui site sweetness. He is gone now, like all the Surrys Of the past, but his memory still lives. His intellect was so powerful, his temper SO sweet and kind, that the first men Of his age saluted him with respect, and I never knew a lady or a child not to love him. He belonged to that old' generation Of Virginians who have disappeared, and the sun to-day, I think, shines nowhere on his like.
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