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 . the Presbyterian meeting in the forenoon, and tothe Romish church in the afternoon. Dined at the New Tavern with the Pennsylvania Assem-bly, and went to the Ball at Three Score Years, MOUNT VERNON DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The Mount Vernon home during the four years of the civil war was considered bythe soldiers of both armies as sacred and inviolable ground and consequently not to beinvaded by the spoiler. The thu
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 . the Presbyterian meeting in the forenoon, and tothe Romish church in the afternoon. Dined at the New Tavern with the Pennsylvania Assem-bly, and went to the Ball at Three Score Years, MOUNT VERNON DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The Mount Vernon home during the four years of the civil war was considered bythe soldiers of both armies as sacred and inviolable ground and consequently not to beinvaded by the spoiler. The thunders of its neighboring battles echoed over its beau-tiful and quiet seclusion and armed fleets sailed by its still shores on their swift errandsof death. It was well that the great hero and patriot after liis patriotic services andvictories, heard and saw them not—that he knew nothing of their direful andbalefulimport. His dying hope and prayer had been that peace and fraternal accord mightreign for long generations within the borders of the land he had loved and defendedso well. All that was at an end. The internal strife he had so much feared and de-. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. lO precated had came to his country. The dragon folds of hostile armies were circlingthe hills and winding over the fair valleys and plains. THE LASTRESTING PLACE OF WASH I NGTON. Speak low !—the place is holy to the breathOf awful harmonies, of whispered prayer ; Tread lightly !—for the sanctity of deathBrocds with a voiceless influence in the air. The last resting place of Washington is in a secluded hollow at the upper entrance tothe deep wooded dell along which lies the pathway from the river. The spacious vaultis built of bricks with an arched roof; its iron door opetis into a vestibule, also builtof bricks, in which seen through a picketed iron gate are two marble sarcophagi con-taining respectively: the one on the right the remains of Washington and the one onthe left those of Martha his
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