. Highways and byways of the South. ch furniture and costly books strewnabout the streets, and bodies of men and carcasses ofhorses scattered in every direction. Evidently it musthave been exceedingly difficult to find a spot wherea person would be safe from the searching fire of theallied batteries and the French fleet. ; The surrender took place among the fields about amile distant, and the locality is marked by a curioussymbolic shaft erected by a patriotic private shaft is of imported EngUsh brick cemented withGerman mortar, the former signifying the British andthe latter the H
. Highways and byways of the South. ch furniture and costly books strewnabout the streets, and bodies of men and carcasses ofhorses scattered in every direction. Evidently it musthave been exceedingly difficult to find a spot wherea person would be safe from the searching fire of theallied batteries and the French fleet. ; The surrender took place among the fields about amile distant, and the locality is marked by a curioussymbolic shaft erected by a patriotic private shaft is of imported EngUsh brick cemented withGerman mortar, the former signifying the British andthe latter the Hessian components of the capturedarmy, and the whole Is made emblematic of war by a Round about Old Jamestown 317 coat of red paint. It stands beside a little lane a fewrods off the main road. Close by is a national ceme-tery where sleep some hundreds of Union soldiers whodied on the battle-fields or in the camps of the have a parklike enclosure to themselves, with amassive wall of brick about it. Within the enclosure. The Spot where Cornvvallis surrendered the turf is like a lawn, the trees are kept trimmed,and the care is constant. The man in charge tookgreat pride in the appearance of the cemetery, and hewaxed very wroth in telling me of the depredationsof certain beetles that clipped off twigs of his was a German who had never succeeded in fullymastering our language. Dose bugs, dey haf pinchers 3i8 Highways and Byways of the South and saws on deir heads, he explained, and dey cutoff Hnibs big as my finger, and I haf all der time everyday to keep pickin dose branches up. We were standing just inside the gate near a pumpthat adjoined the caretakers tidy stone cottage. Theman stepped to the pump and filled a cup with water,but paused as he was conveying it to his mouth tosay : Some beoples not like to drink dis water. Deyfill der cup and dey look mit deir eyes at der gravesso many here, and dey drow der water away. Butdose old fellows not drouble der wa
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