. Book of the Royal blue . scarred to-day. for aboutits holy precinct some of the hardest fight-ing took place. The battlefield of Antietamis well marked. Magnificent monumentsrise on ever> hand. Across the pike fromthe church is the Maryland memorial to thememory of her sons in blue and gray. Itwas dedicated by President McKmley, whofought in this very Now I go and turn in at the a depression m •■■ UMricr 18 ANTIETAM FIELD a mile in length, where 1,800 men lookedheavenward with silent lips after the is peace here now. ^ou can hear thecrickets where
. Book of the Royal blue . scarred to-day. for aboutits holy precinct some of the hardest fight-ing took place. The battlefield of Antietamis well marked. Magnificent monumentsrise on ever> hand. Across the pike fromthe church is the Maryland memorial to thememory of her sons in blue and gray. Itwas dedicated by President McKmley, whofought in this very Now I go and turn in at the a depression m •■■ UMricr 18 ANTIETAM FIELD a mile in length, where 1,800 men lookedheavenward with silent lips after the is peace here now. ^ou can hear thecrickets where blood flowed like water, andtwo little children are plucking clover in the Bloody-Lane. I ascend to the top ofthe great stone conning tower, which stands field was killed is marked by a stately shaft,and upon many of the memorials stands asoldier in bronze or granite. The McKinleymemorial is a beautiful aflFair and everyvisitor seeks it out. A mere boy then, thefuture President covered himself with gloryat THE SUNKEN ROAD at the terminus of this crimson way, andlook around. The whole battlefield sweepsaway beneath me. Right below me isPipers cornfield, in corn to-day, as then,and over there is Burnside Bridge, so wellknown to some of our county encircling hills are covered with thesoft haze of midsummer, the wheat is A winding road leads down to BurnsideBridge. The old stone structure saw athousand Lnion boys fall in the chargesthat carried it, and on the slope is the spotwhere Colonel Coleman, of Troy, fell onthat fatal day. Justacrossthe river, Toombs,of Georgia, resisted the taking of the bridge,and the old trees on the spot are bullet-bored
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