. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . West and East over the WesternMaryland R. R. and from the populoussections of the northeast and northwestover the Cumberland Railroad viaHarrisburg, would see all the lovely region traversed by the ShenandoahValley Road. Fairly under way, with plenty ofroom in our comfortable coaches, overa solid road-bed and a steel track, webegan the chief duty of the occasion,that of sight-seeing an
. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . West and East over the WesternMaryland R. R. and from the populoussections of the northeast and northwestover the Cumberland Railroad viaHarrisburg, would see all the lovely region traversed by the ShenandoahValley Road. Fairly under way, with plenty ofroom in our comfortable coaches, overa solid road-bed and a steel track, webegan the chief duty of the occasion,that of sight-seeing and enjoying our-selves. St. James Protestant Episcopal Col-lege. This popular seat of learning, be-longing to the diocese of Maryland, liesin classic solitude just off the line. Thehistorical tourist informed us that the maincollege building was, in the early part ofthis century, the mansion house of Ringold, who owned a manorof 20,000 of these beautiful acres thatspread out around. GRIMES STATION. Amid quiet fields where grasses andflowers cover the red tracks of con-tending hosts, this little station standsthe vidette of the great battle fields alongthe valley road. [6 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND. BUR^SIDES BRIDGE, ANTIETAM. ANTIETAM is not far away, and Stonewalls menleft souvenirs of their presence here, inthe bullet marks on trees and fences. The bridge which Burnside crossed isanother reminder of the past, and theSoldiers Monument speaks adoration ofthose who fell upon the way. SHARPSBURG. Every acre about this place is battleground. For three miles the railroadruns through the centre of fields, oncethe arenas of fierce fighting. Vividlythe imagination pictures the charge, theretreat, the carnage. O, God of battles,let it never be seen again in reality !Peaceful as a benediction, the sunbeamsrest on the trees that watch over thegraves of 5,000 Federal soldiers whosleep here. Three miles south of Sharpsburg thetrain crosses the Potomac Potomac ! Linke
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