Song for General Lafayette, Wilmington, Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1824 November 3.

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Song for General Lafayette, Wilmington, Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1824 November 3.

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D.W.H. Bowles comments on General Lafayette's visit to Wilmington, Fluvanna County, Virginia, erroneously dated October 1824. he reproduces the lyrics to a song composed by Capt. John G. Miller for the occasion. He notes that after a mixed choir sung the song [music not included] Lafayette replied. Bowles also writes of his reaction as an eyewitness to the entertainment. Robert D. Ward, in An Account of General LaFayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-25... (Richmond, Va: West, Johnston Co., 1881), cites the date of Lafayette's visit to Wilmington as 1824 November 3.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

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