Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-04-04

of battle intended to sink into more SEN
sitive hearts than those of these sentinelS OF
the forest.
There is an exhibit of two bullets, fired
opposite directions, and having met
in mid all at Petersburg This is consid-
two other like ones in the United States.
Unless these veteran bullets could them
selves s'tale unfold of their identity OF
the circumstancial evidence of their fiat
tened noses prove that they were foes that
had met face to face in an cereal combat,
the coincidence? Old battered canteens,
knap-sacks, leather water buckets, worn
uniforms, ETC., hang every where in sign of
the creature comforts" Of the soldier
boys, to say nothing of the remnants of
their fine living, in several specimens of
bareback, which has defed the tooth of
time as we'll as that of the volunteers.
Several bricks taken from the interior
wall of Libby prison, showing names cut
on them by the Union prisoners. A piece
of machinery used at the mint at Column
bia, S. c., for making Confederate money.
But one of the most valuable articles of
interest in the reception-room, is the IA
nous AppOmattoX table, upon which Gen
erals u S. Grant and Robert E. Lee drew
up the papers for the surrender of the
Confederate army, which closed the great
civil war. This event occurred April g.
1865.
ONE OF THE PRISONERS
The next is the Union department, and is
known as ''the Kitchen as it was there
that the prisoners did their cooking and
eating, and also weekly gave minstrel
performance. Here l was escorted through
the avenues of relics by an old Union war
rior, Captain Foster, who gloried in the
fame of having been one of the 100 prison.
ORG W. m ne
Rose from this prison. From his own OBJ
servations one would CLEAN that his most
warlike exploits had been this scratching
under to escape. The old fireplace, with
the hole dug out, leading to the tunnel is
in the original state and this accompanying
hardy captain, dwells with thrilling ami
nation on his dangers, his daring, his
stealthy working for liberty, and secrecy,
it having taken about month to crawl
like so many moles through the ground.
The fact of his auditor having come from
the scene of such heroic action, notwith-
standing the distant relationship of that
date and this, was inspiration enough for
more than usual fire and animation in his
recital, aud if he enjoyed his first habita-
ton and occupation in the Richmond prison
to the seeming extent of his retrospection
of it, he could wish for no happier abode,
though at the time of the tunnel-digging
there was little thought in his mind that
future years would again impriSon him in
the same walls, removed to the greatest,
most prosperous, most peaceful metropolis
of the West. With great pride he showed
taken out and the tunnel dug-a wedge
shaped piece of iron about six inches in
length. This relic was in the possession
of Colonel Rose, after whose death it be-
longed to the family from whom it was
purchased by the museum for $780, In one
~ G in aI-t on1,ti tI,o tAn
and shears used by Andrew johnson when
he was tailor, and also the silk hat that
was worn by him when he was inaugurated
President of the United States The next
room, known as ''The Hospital, for which
it was used during the war; is also full of
tant for entertainment, as we'll as value,
are, first, a life-size portrait of John
Brown, of Harpers Ferry fame, the most
horrible, startling countenance ever por-
portrayed upon canvas. 1t seemed the
childs ideal face of the scarey giant who
an Englishman,' but Immediately under
it was written, "John Brown, whose soul
goes marching on Immediately the
other line, chang John Brown on a sour
apple tree suggested itself, and pleas
anter thoughts with it of returning wagon
OF merry girls and bays, she picnic over,
and gay young voices pitched to their high
est, waking the echoes along Franklin
street with the blood-thirsty old song.
Having just admired the fine face of some
Union officer, l thought I might dare the
truth OF expression about the one under
discussion, So appealed tamy guide in blue
torted visage." He thought ON the contrary
that the fire, the energy, the determination
OF the cOuptenance were fervid and noble
Concluding that JOINTS present champion
had in days past been Johns chum, the
theme with that valor commended of dis
erection was dropped, but not, however,
until stupendous iron pike, deadly to
look upon, had been brought to light, with
mild explanations that it was the Weapon
which this hero put into the hands of the
negroes for the determination of the whites
ALSO the original will made by him an
hour before his execution. Original let.
tiers of Lew Wallace, Frank Leslie. Adj
miral David D. Porter, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, and other celebrities, and a SON
net IN manuscript by Margaret j. Preston.
The original manuscript of Horace Gree
iey's speech at the banquet given at the
Franklin in New York city.
In the Confederate department on the
SECOND MOOR, resting On an easel, in frame,
is the first United States flag, thrown to the
breeze in Richmond, after the evacuation
OF the city: The flag was embroidered in
1881, SO it is over hundred years DID, and
",
design representing George Washington on
horseback, bearing the stars and stripes
Ger his head. 1t was owned by Mrs. Lewis.
who concealed it between the glass and |
back OF her mirror, until the cOnquering
troops marched through the city, when she |
waved it from her window at No. 1922 east |
Main street.
There was no object that the guides waXed |
more eloquentupon than the theme of Miss |
Van Lew. Several different views of her
house in Richmond they have photographed,
with the following explanatory card: ''The |
residence of Miss Van Lew, the patriotic
lady whose loyalty during the dark days
OF the Rebellion was manifested in per |
hitting Colonel A. D. Streight and several |
Of his companions to taka refuge in her
attic, where she concealed them after their |
escape from Libby Prison General Grant.
in memory of her noble service, appointed |
her postmistress in Richmond during his |
administration.
ANOTHER s'RELIC."
letter from Caroline county says:
"The house in which John Wilkes Booth |
1.-THE assassin of President .ipaoIpN J;oJ