. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . THE POTOMAC FROM MARYLAND HEIGHTS. J 26 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. people after the troops had departed. The arsenal alone was completely destroyed, withabout fifteen thousand stand of arms. On the night of the i8th of April the Southernforces came in, and soon Colonel Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson assumed machinery in the workshops was taken out and removed to Fayetteville,
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . THE POTOMAC FROM MARYLAND HEIGHTS. J 26 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. people after the troops had departed. The arsenal alone was completely destroyed, withabout fifteen thousand stand of arms. On the night of the i8th of April the Southernforces came in, and soon Colonel Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson assumed machinery in the workshops was taken out and removed to Fayetteville, NorthCarolina. On the 14th of the following June the Southern forces, then under the com-mand of General Joe Johnston, abandoned the Ferry, as of no strategic completed the destruction already begun. The railroad-bridge was blown up, andthe main armory-buildings fired. By this time the town was nearly deserted. Many ofits inhabitants had entered the armies of the North or the South; others had left it formore peaceful scenes. The few that remained lived almost continually within the soundof the cannon and the rifle. For a long time every thing that moved in the streetswas shot at. Field-glass
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