Daring Deeds of American Generals Author:John Stilwell Jenkins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER. 87 those noble qualities which characterize the gentleman of the old school. He is scarcely above the ordinary height, and ... more »slight of person, but straight as the arrow of an Indian warrior. He is somewhat reserved, but not taciturn,—courteous and urbane in his manners, but dignified and high-minded. Though his head is silvered with the frost of many winters, he is still hale and erect, and brave and generous, as in the hey-day of youth, when he rambled along the banks of the Yadkin; or, in the pride of manhood, when he stood unmoved, gazing with an unblenched eye on the carnage around him, and issuing his orders with an unfaltering lip, amid the whirling balls and blazing sheila, on the ramparts of Fort Erie ! chapter{Section 4WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Among the most successful officers of the war of 1812, was Major General William Henry Harrison. Descended from a good old revolutionary stock, and thoroughly imbued, in his boyhood, with sentiments of the most sincere and devoted patriotism, he laid the foundation, at an early age, of the fame and distinction which he acquired in maturer years. Throughout a long life,—one full of interest, and replete with impor. tant incidents,—he enjoyed a wide-spread popularity, which, in the western states of the Union, was sometimes manifested with all the fervor of enthusiasm. No one better deserved the respect and esteem of his countrymen, and there are few whose character has come orighter or purer from the ordeal, when submitted t that Areopagus of public opinion, whose decisions admi not of dispute. He was born at Berkeley, the family seat of his fa. ther, on James river, Virginia, on the ninth day of February, 1773 ; being the youngest of three sons His father, Colonel Benjamin Harrison, was a ...« less