But he was forced to admit that they fought well and faced death willingly.
In time Washington gathered about him a fine body of officers, brave, steady, and efficient.

On the great issue they, like himself, had unchanging conviction, and they and he saved the revolution.

But a good many of his difficulties were due to bad officers.

He had himself the reverence for gentility, the belief in an ordered grading of society, characteristic of his class in that age.

In Virginia the relation of master and servant was well understood and the tone of authority was readily accepted.