lionhearted against wrong doing and ready to help in every good cause, he won the respect even of those who disliked him, and at each promotion earned the goodwill of the men.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
He failed to take the city, but he became famous throughout the East as a fearless warrior and was ever afterwards called the "lionhearted."
"Introductory American History"
Henry Eldridge Bourne Elbert Jay Benton