Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . ts frowned from every salientpoint of those now so quiet and peaceful hills, and a hundred flagstaffs unfurled over all, their starry flags to the passing locality is one naturally possessing asaddening interest to the tourist. Everyyear it is visited by numbers of the surviv-ing veterans who figured in the scenes ofthe stirring times of forty years ago. The grass grows green on every hillWhere circling ramj^arts frownd. Fo
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . ts frowned from every salientpoint of those now so quiet and peaceful hills, and a hundred flagstaffs unfurled over all, their starry flags to the passing locality is one naturally possessing asaddening interest to the tourist. Everyyear it is visited by numbers of the surviv-ing veterans who figured in the scenes ofthe stirring times of forty years ago. The grass grows green on every hillWhere circling ramj^arts frownd. Forgotten all through lapse of limeIs every martial >ound ; The sword is resting on the wall Of lowly home or princely hall. The brave corn lifts in thousand sabers in the sun ; The ricks replace the battle-tents,The bannered tassels toss and run. The neighing steed, the bu^es blast— These be the stories of the past. The earth has healed her wounded cannon pbjw the+ields no more ; The heroes rest: O let them restIn peace along the peaceful shores ; They fought for peace, for peace they fell : They sleep in peace and all is ONLY A MEMORY. Just beyond the Seminary, in full sight up the valley, are the picketing grounds whichlong divided the two armies ; and near by is Baileys Cross Roads, where was man-oeuvred by the Union forces, in November, 1861, in the presence of President Lincolnpreparatory to the peninsula campaign, one of the grandest military reviews of anycountry or time. Through these camping and drilling grounds, and far on beyond,may still be traced the course of the old military road, laid out through the then densewilderness a hundred years jjrevious, by which a portion of Braddocks army underGeneral Halket marched on their disastrous expedition. Halfway between the Seminary and the railway bridge, is Cameron Ford whereHunting Creek is crossed by the Old Kings Highway from Williamsburg, the AncientCapital of Virginia, to the Shena
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