. Book of the Royal blue . o its top; aninvestigation could be made with littletrouble and very slight expense. FortHill is, perhaps, merely a sealed book wait-ing to be opened and read, and may containconsiderable archteological information ofimportance. It is said the Indians, naturally supersti-tious, and the first white settlers as well,always avoided the hill at night. We ofthis day and generation are much morematerialistic than our ancestors of theeighteenth century, and do not have asmuch faith in the supernatural, and it iswith a smile we learn that they believedthe hill was haunted. T
. Book of the Royal blue . o its top; aninvestigation could be made with littletrouble and very slight expense. FortHill is, perhaps, merely a sealed book wait-ing to be opened and read, and may containconsiderable archteological information ofimportance. It is said the Indians, naturally supersti-tious, and the first white settlers as well,always avoided the hill at night. We ofthis day and generation are much morematerialistic than our ancestors of theeighteenth century, and do not have asmuch faith in the supernatural, and it iswith a smile we learn that they believedthe hill was haunted. The railroad is near the hill. Througha deep ravine between them hurries theCasselman River to its confluence at theTurkey Foot with the Youghiogheny andLaurel Hill Creek. But ihe distance across,in an air line, is so little that a very fineview of the hill can be had from the rail-road for quite a distance east of BrooksTunnel. GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL, HERO OF MARYLAND HEIGHTS ANDHARPERS FERRY, WHO PASSED AWAY AUGUST 22, I FIGHTS MIT SIGEL. BY GRANT P. ROBINSON, UNION SOLDIER, 1S63. I MET him again; lie was trudging knapsack with chickens was swelling:He had raided those dainties and thought itno an absent secessionists regiments yours, and under whose flagDo you fight? said I, touching his slowly around, he smilingly said— And the thought made him stronger and bolder—Ifights mit Sigel! The next time I saw him his knapsack was gone. His cap and his canteen were missing;Shell, shrapnel and grape and the swift rifle ball Around him and oer him were are you, my friend, and where have you been? And for what and for whom are you fighting?He said, as a shell from the enemys guns Sent his arm and his musket a-kiting,Ifights mit Sigel! •■Hiirpcrs Kerry was taken, retaken or evaenated every time the Confederates erossed the Potomac, except in 186i. when General siijel determined to liold it at all hazards, a thin
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