. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. t discovered till about1893; the New Market Endless Caverns, fifteenmiles north, were discovered in 1879—the sameyear that Lanier was in the Valley. PAGE 31 SIDNEY LANIER the old Lincoln homestead, whence thePresidents ancestor emigrated to Kentuckyin 1782. Much nearer are several placesfamous from the Civil War: A wooded hillnear Harrisonburg where the Confederategeneral, Turner Ashby, was killed, and theFederal general, Thomas L. Kane, brotherto the arctic explo
. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. t discovered till about1893; the New Market Endless Caverns, fifteenmiles north, were discovered in 1879—the sameyear that Lanier was in the Valley. PAGE 31 SIDNEY LANIER the old Lincoln homestead, whence thePresidents ancestor emigrated to Kentuckyin 1782. Much nearer are several placesfamous from the Civil War: A wooded hillnear Harrisonburg where the Confederategeneral, Turner Ashby, was killed, and theFederal general, Thomas L. Kane, brotherto the arctic explorer, was wounded andcaptured in a sharp fight the evening ofJune 6, 1862; rolling fields and woodlands,six miles south, about Cross Keys, wheretwo days later Fremont and Ewell fought;and, a few miles further south, the broadriver flats near Port Republic, where Shieldsand Jackson strove in fierce conflict, June the9th. In 1865 Lanier had written his splendidverses on The Dying Words of StonewallJackson; and it is inconceivable that heshould not have been stirred again in spiritas he looked down upon the ground where PAGE 32. AT ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS the grim, silent chieftain had wound up theValley campaign in that brilliant climax ofstrategy and hard fighting. Almost opposite the Springs is the gap inthe Blue Ridge—Swift Run Gap—throughwhich Jackson had led his army eastwardtoward Richmond, and through which, acentury and a half before, Governor Alex-ander Spotswood had led westward into theValley the first exploring expedition, com-memorated in the celebrated order, * Knightsof the Horseshoe. It was probably throughthis very gap that Lanier himself went, onone of his rides longer than the rest, aboutthe end of September. To this ride makes the following interestingreference: We went to Rockingham Springs withSidney, aged 8 years and 9 months, andHarry, 5 years old. Late in our visit Mr. PAGE 33 SIDNEY LANIER Lanier went on horseback over the moun-tains to Rapida
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