TO
THE SACRED MEMORY
OF
MY FATHER,
Francis Lee Smith,
WHOSE LOVE FOR HIS NATIVE STATE,
THROUGH EARLY SEED-SOWING IN THE MIND OF
THIS HIS CHILD, NOW
FINDS IMPERFECT EXPRESSION
HERE;
AND TO
THE BELOVED MEMORY
OF
MY BROTHER,
Courtland Hawkins Smith,
THE TYPE OF VIRGINIA CHIVALRY,
THE EMBODIMENT OF A NOBLE, GIFTED, VIGOROUS
MANHOOD, WHO, ORIGINATING THE
IDEA OF THIS HISTORY, BEGAN ITS PREPARATION,
WHEN AN UNTIMELY DEATH PREVENTED
ITS COMPLETION,
This Work
IS
DEDICATED.
M. V. S.
Alexandria, Virginia.
1892.
