The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
An old Soldier Talks About the Virgin.
10 Battle Fields.
Eorn the Spartanb,ra Spartan.


s.45 D.. m. train, accompanied by most
agreeable travelling companion. On our
tour we have visited some interesting
scenery.
Richmond, the Confederate Capitol.
We had known her only in her war dress
and under martial law. What variety
of scenes of the past are recalled as we
revisit the city-the amusing, the mourn
full, and the terrible. What living Con.
federate does not remember "Rockets"
loaf bread and beef sausage? The
mournful scenes at the hospitals, Camp,
Winder and Chimborazo The sur.
rounding battlehelds with their awful
thunder aud death7 Yet, after all her
misfortunes, Richmond has grown great.
The grounds occupied by the hospital
barracks of Winder and Chimborazo are
now laid off in beautiful parks, contain
ing elegant.residences. Not far distant
from Winder is Hollywood cemetery, a
lovely spot, whose very atmosphere seems
to remind us that we are treading on sa-
cred ground. In section of this beau
tiful cemetery with its trees, shrubbery,
and flowers lie the remains of fifteen
thousand Confederate soldiers: Marble
tomb stones mark few Of the soldiers
graves, but with few exceptions, q piece
Of wood, capped with metal on which a
number is stamped, marks their graves.
A few PAGES Southwest of the great
granite pyramid erected in memory OF
the Confederate dead is the S. G. division.
What 6. volume of history is suggested to
the mind while reviewing Capitol Park,
with its statutes and monuments. The
statue Of Stonewall Jackson is added to
the many erections in memory of disiin'
guished virginians. Procuring buggy
and a beautiful animal, which we called
"Dollie," we drove down the nine mile
road 70 the famous Seven Pines Battle
Field. Approaching this field, I invol'
UNFAIRLY gazed in the distance for the
Federal balloons which lowered over the
dreadful carnage below. But on ap-
preaching, there is feeling of relief at
seeing the busy plowman turning the
soil that once trembled beneath the
shock oil contending armies.
Mr.. Lyons, yirginian, once member
of the It'll S. g. Cavalry, resides here in
q house built on the battle field, and has
collected numerous relics Of the battle,
guns, swords, baycneta, bombs, frag-
ments Of bombs, mimic balls, &c. He
told me they frequently plowed them up
now in cultivating the soil, and sad to
relate, also human skeletons. In large
brick enclosure on. this field, set with
trees and shrubbery over which floats the
q. S. fag, lie buried the remains of many
thousand Federals. After selecting some
relics oil this famous battle field, we
returned to Richmond and took the York
River and Chesapeake Line for Baltimore
Going abroad the beautiful steamer,
Louise, a. West Point, We had fine sailing
on Yors: river, Chesapeake Bay and
Patapsco River. There is much interest
ing scenery on this line, and TO lovers Of
fine oysters, we say keep mum, until you
try some Of the full grown York river OF
Norfolk, where two make mess; After
visiting City Park and some of the inter
esting places in Baltimore we took the
train and came to Washington. This is
the place for sight seeing. The Capi
tai building with its great marble rooms
its statuary and its paintings, is indeed
magnificent and should be thus, to reflect
the greatness of this nation.
The Botanical Gardens are splendid
and exhibit the fora of the world
Smithsonian Institution, with the annex.
the National Museum, seem inexhausti'
bic in their store of culiosities. Here
are deposited the collections Of all the
Arctic expeditions and all other curiosi'
ties and they would require weeks tc
examine carefully. The exhibit embraces
the fowls, fishes, and animals that inhabit
land or water on the globe. On Saturday
May 81, at 10 a. -n. we went aboard the
fine steamer W. ". Corcoren, Capt
Blake in command, and sailed down the
Potomac sixteen miles to Mount Vernon
the Home Of Washington. The Mansion
and contiguous grounds are owned BY
the Ladies' Association of Mount Vernon
which keeps everything as near as posi-
BILE in the same state of preservation a:
when owned aud used by Washington.
Landing at Mount Vernon wharf,
pleasant walk of few hundred yards
carries us to the tomb and mansion o
Washington. The front of the vault ii
guarded by an open gateway through
which is plainly seen the marble sarcoph
agus which contains the remains o
Washington. By his side is anothe
marble sarcophagus which contains th'
remains of Mrs. Washington. On th'
back of the vault is an inscription taker
from the II chapter of St. John, 25 ane
rs verses.
The mansion is made of wood, cut il
imitation Of stone and painted white, 81
are the servants houses, butler's pantry
and gardeners house. The mansion ha
two stories besides attic rooms. Th'
rooms are small compared with moderr
style. The piazza seventy or eighty fee
long fronts the river. The room il
which Washington died is on the SECOND
floor. The, bedstead on which he diet
has round, rather slender, high post
with plain Stats around the top. Thu
counterpains on the bed are white, so ar
the counterpanes on all the beds in th'
house. The furniture in the room SEEM
to be walnut and consists of secretary