What to see in America . Christ Church, Alexandria Virginia 153 War interest. It was the scene of a fiercely contested battlein 1862, and the next year the Battle of Chancellorsvillewas fought eleven miles to the west, and the year after thatthe Battle of theWilderness oc-curred a few milesfarther away inthat a mile ofChancellorsvilleStonewall Jack-son was wounded Mt. Vernon fatallybv his. own men duringthe battle, and a monument in the lonely woodland marksthe spot. Washington spent his boyhood near Fredericks-burg, where his father was agent for some iron works. Thefamily dw
What to see in America . Christ Church, Alexandria Virginia 153 War interest. It was the scene of a fiercely contested battlein 1862, and the next year the Battle of Chancellorsvillewas fought eleven miles to the west, and the year after thatthe Battle of theWilderness oc-curred a few milesfarther away inthat a mile ofChancellorsvilleStonewall Jack-son was wounded Mt. Vernon fatallybv his. own men duringthe battle, and a monument in the lonely woodland marksthe spot. Washington spent his boyhood near Fredericks-burg, where his father was agent for some iron works. Thefamily dwelling was a four-room house with outside chim-neys, just below the town on the other side of the Rappa-hannock. There his mother died in 1789. Robert E. Lee was born in 1807 at Stratford about thirtymiles up the Potomac from Chesapeake Bay, but when theCivil War began he was living on a Virginia height thatoverlooked the Potomac and Washington. His dwelling,with its columned portico, was known as Arlington was built in 1802 by Lees father-in-law, who was agrandson of Martha Washington. Lee went to Richmondto take command of the Virginia troops, and the house andestate of 1000 acres were confiscated. The grounds wereconverted into a Federal camp, a hospital was establishedthere, and in 1867 the property became a national ceme-tery. On the slopes are long serried lines of tombstones bythous
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