Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . s frowned from every salientpoint of those now so quiet and peaceful hills, and a hundred flagstaffs unfurled over all, their starry flags to the passing locality is one naturally possessing asaddening interest to the tourist. Everyyear it is visited by numbers of the surviv-ing veterans who figured in the scenes of thestirring times of forty years ago. The grass grows green on every hillWhere circling ramparts frownd. Forg
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . s frowned from every salientpoint of those now so quiet and peaceful hills, and a hundred flagstaffs unfurled over all, their starry flags to the passing locality is one naturally possessing asaddening interest to the tourist. Everyyear it is visited by numbers of the surviv-ing veterans who figured in the scenes of thestirring times of forty years ago. The grass grows green on every hillWhere circling ramparts frownd. Forgotten all through lapse of timeIs every martial sound. The sword is resting on the wall Of lowly home or princely hall. The brave corn lifts in regiments. Ten thousand sabers in the sun ;The ricks replace the battle-tents, The bannered tassels toss and neighing steed, the bugles blast—These be the stories of the past. The earth has healed her wounded breast,The cannon plow the fields no more ; The heroes rest : O let them rest In peace along the peaceful chores ; They fought for peac<% for peace they fell : They sleep in peace and all is ONLY A MEMORY, 24 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS Just beyond the Seminary, in full sight up the valley, are the picketing grounds whichlong divided the two armies ; and near by is Baileys Cross Roads, where was man-ceuvred by the Union forces one of the grandest military reviews of any country ortime. Through these camping and drilling grounds, and far on beyond, may still betraced the course of the old military road, laid out through the then dense wildernessa hundred years previous, by which a portion of Braddocks army under GeneralHalket marched on their disastrous expedition.
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