. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . a short distance to the south liesthe country not inaptly called the Wilder-ness, but back a little along the rivers aremany nice farms and pleasant sections. The valley of the Rappahannock was inthe old times a famous grain region, andsome of the finest plantations in Virginiastill lie there around the old colonialmansions. Fredericksburg itself was formerlysomewhat unique among the towns ofVirginia. The gentry generally lived in most noted men that have honored ournavy; for here lived, from the age ofthirteen, Paul Jones, that foreigner of
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . a short distance to the south liesthe country not inaptly called the Wilder-ness, but back a little along the rivers aremany nice farms and pleasant sections. The valley of the Rappahannock was inthe old times a famous grain region, andsome of the finest plantations in Virginiastill lie there around the old colonialmansions. Fredericksburg itself was formerlysomewhat unique among the towns ofVirginia. The gentry generally lived in most noted men that have honored ournavy; for here lived, from the age ofthirteen, Paul Jones, that foreigner ofthe South who, with the BouhommeRichard on fire and sinking, replied to ademand to surrender that he was just be-ginning to fight, lashed the Serapis toher, and forced her to strike her colors;and here were born Lewis Herndon andMatthew F. Maury. Some of the oldmansions still stand embowered in trees,impressive as in tlie old days when theywere the homes of wealth and ease aswell as of elegance and refinement. A picture of the town recalled by mem-. WESTOVER. ory rises before the writer when it wasvery different from its present placid con-dition. It is as it loolved forty-eiglit hoursafter tlie battle when for days and nightsit had been in the focus of the fire of twoarmies. It was whilst the dead were be-ing buried under a flag of truce, and onceseen, its appearance could never be for-gotten—the battered and riddled houses;the dug-up and littered streets with earth-works thrown across them, on whichgroups of children had planted little Con-federate flags, whilst they played at lev-elling them with fire-shovels; the torngardens; the shattered fences, behindwhich men had poured out their blood;the long trench on the common where thePath of Glory ended ; the roadways filledwith broken vehicles and fleeing combined to leave on the memory theineffaceable pictui-e of a bombarded fifty miles further on is Rich-mond, the cai>ilal of the Old Dominion,and du
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