The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . repast, just as little in keeping withthe refined cuisines of Paris, as the room was with its architecture. Itconsisted of a large dish of meat, uncouth-looking pastry, and wine indecanters and bottles, accompanied by glasses and silver mugs, such asindicated other habits and tastes than those of modern Paris. Do youknow where we now are ? said Marbois to Lafayette and his American THE HUDSON. 201 companions. They paused in surprise for a few minutes. They had seensomething like it before, but when ? and where ? Ah ! the seven doorsand one window, e
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . repast, just as little in keeping withthe refined cuisines of Paris, as the room was with its architecture. Itconsisted of a large dish of meat, uncouth-looking pastry, and wine indecanters and bottles, accompanied by glasses and silver mugs, such asindicated other habits and tastes than those of modern Paris. Do youknow where we now are ? said Marbois to Lafayette and his American THE HUDSON. 201 companions. They paused in surprise for a few minutes. They had seensomething like it before, but when ? and where ? Ah ! the seven doorsand one window, exclaimed Lafayette, and the silver camp-goblets,such as the Marshals of France used in my youth ! We are at WashingtonsHead-quarters, on the Hudson, fifty years ago ! Upon the lawn, a little eastward of the Head-quarters, is a tall flag-staff, and near it a chaste monument, in the form of a mausoleum, madeof brown sandstone, and erected early in the summer of 1860, over thegrave of the hatest survivor of Washingtons life-guard. The monument. LIFE-GUARD MOXr^rEXT was dedicated on the 18th of June, with appropriate services in connectionwith a large civic and military parade. It is about six feet in height,and is surmounted by a large recumbent wreath. On the river-front arethe words :— The last of thb Life Guards. Uzal Knapp, born, 1759;DIED, 1856. MoNJiouTH, Yalley Foege, ToRKTOwif. On the oppositeside:—Erected by the Newbuegh Guards, Company F., 19th Regiment,N. Y. S. M., June, 1860. It is surrounded by a chain supported by graniteposts, and is flanked by two pieces of heavy cannon. The monument wasdesigned by H. X. Brown, tlie sculptor. D D ilr. Kuapp, the recipient of these honours, was, for a long time, theouly surviving member of the body-guard of ^Vashington, which wasorganised at Boston in the spring of 1776, and continued throughout thewar. They were selected from all the regiments of the Continental Army,and chosen for their peculiar fitness of person and moral cha
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