The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . th the rhododendron, the ivy,and the magnolia; a land of soul-touching beautythat alone would make the journey worth while. The historical interest, however, of this regionis, above all, absorbing. No sooner are you onVirginias soil than the memories of the warsterrible days throng upon you, as the once blood-soaked field of Bull Run comes upon your sight,with Manassas directly by, where the crumblingearthworks seem to be guarded by the mightyspirit of Beauregard. Then, almost before t
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . th the rhododendron, the ivy,and the magnolia; a land of soul-touching beautythat alone would make the journey worth while. The historical interest, however, of this regionis, above all, absorbing. No sooner are you onVirginias soil than the memories of the warsterrible days throng upon you, as the once blood-soaked field of Bull Run comes upon your sight,with Manassas directly by, where the crumblingearthworks seem to be guarded by the mightyspirit of Beauregard. Then, almost before thesememories have touched your heart, comes Center-ville, the Stone Bridge, Warrenton, SudleySprings, and Thoroughfare Gap. Here is Rap-pahannock, Brandy Station, Culpeper, the Rapi-dan; while, within a stones throw are the slowwaters, the grass, the trailing willows, and thescrub-oak of the Wilderness, where even to-day, inwalking through its dark lanes, your foot will startfrom its half-century bed the corroding musket,or the Minie ball, that has lain there so long atrest from its labor of ^ On the Way to the White Sulphur 17 Ulysses Grant began his campaign on the Jamesat Culpeper; and here and at Orange Court Houseand at Gordonsville loom the mighty spirits ofthat Federal commander and of Robert E. foot of the way you are journeying heardthe boom of the cannon; over and across the rail-roads track marched in deadly conflict the forcesof our country, and the spirits of Lee, Sheridan,Grant, Jackson, Pope, Burnside, McClellan, andJeb Stuart accompany you along the path; for herewas where they mightily strove. Leaving the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohioroad at Orange, in an hour you are at Fredericks-burg, where the old fortifications remain intact,and where the dreadful Maryes Hill is still prac-tically as it was in the time of the awful this line, too, you are in touch with Chancel-lorsville, where Stonewall Jackson met his fate;and near
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