The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-08-05

per's Ferry and Winchester has been
tredden down many time by march
ing men. There is. no more interest
ing point in the valley than this lat
ter town. Rich in its memories. of
Washington it was knocked about
like shuttlecoek between "Feds"
and "Rebs." On an eminence back
of the town are two cemeteries, mute
witnesses of strife and carnage. I'm
the Union, Cemetery the stars and
stripes rise and fall over the graves
Of four Thousand four hundred dead.
Keeper Druin keeps the grass closely
ly shaven and the flowers in full
bloom; but even he cannot tell the
names Of more than half the heroes
who rest under the sod. The rest
belong to that great army Of the un-
known. just across the narrow path
lie the heroes of the opposing forces.
They have no marble slab at their
head but their sfumber is just as
peaceful. The granite shaft made in
Philadelphia and erected here three
or four years ago is lasting monu-
ment to the unrecorded dead Of the
Stonewall Cemetery.
SOME OTHER BATTLE-FIELDs.
Any one who cares to do so can
find in Winchester all sorts of anec-
dotes of the war; Ladies can tell of
the part they played in nursing the
wounded. Men can tell of the inces-
SAINT tramp of marching feet and Of
many narrow escape. But four
miles away is Kernstown, where, in
winter of 1861, Shields and Stone
wall jackson came together and
where the Confederate General lost
his grip and was driven up the val
ley. There are people, too, who re-
member Sheridan's famous ride to
Cedar Creek, where Jubal Early had
routed General Emory and was hav
ing everything his own way, until
Sheridan snatched victory from the
very jaws of defeat. asked an old
colored man out on the Kernstown
road the other day--a decrepit old
darkey who said he had seen Sheri-
dan go by--Low the General. looked.
"LookP' exclaimed the old man.
"Look! Why he didn't look nohow.
/ done reckon he didn't have no time
to look. He done went by SO fas' he
jes' took in fences d walls. Bless
yo' heart, boss, he DIDN'T have no
time to stop for no road even.'
Still further up the valley is New
Market, where Breckenridge defeated
Sigel, although his army was inferior
in numbers. Twenty miles further
on is Harrisonburg, rich in the men,
DRY of Ashby and Cross Keys. Not
far from Harrisonburg,, Ashby fell
during charge of the Pennsylvania
Bucktails.
SENTIMENT IN THE VALLEY.
Probably there is more feeling over
the war in the Valley of Virginia than
in any other part of the South. 1t
is natural. In no other place were
the results of the war SO. terrible.
The people believe in Lee and Stone
wall jackson, and when Randolph
Tucker went to Winchester the other
day and at the commencement at the
Academy there, made some rather
remarkable statements in the way of
eulogy,. he was soundly applauded.
1t was in poor taste and few of the
Northern boys in the Academy could
not stand it and left the hall, but
Tucker isn't much of statesman, as
statesman go, and he went right on,
just the same. The.people applauded
him because he lauded Lee and Jack
son up to the skies. Yet little later
a Pennsylvania fire company visited
the town and the yankees we're re-
ceived with open arms. Nothing was
too good for them and every building
was decorated and at night every
window was illuminated.