Although Henry might have said it that day ... both relatively unknown today. William Wirt, a noted orator and U.S. attorney general during the 19th century, published the first account of ...

William Wirt Henry, grandson of Patrick Henry, is one of the most promising members of the Richmond bar. He is a high type of the advocate, particularly in appellate practice. Mr. Henry has also ...

Henry did not write down the speech and the version we know today was published 42 years later in an 1817 biography of him. The biographer, attorney William Wirt, pieced together Henry’s words ...

William Wirt, a noted orator and U.S. attorney general ... his best recollection when he was in his 50s. No written copy of Henry’s remarks was ever known to exist. And no one took notes as ...