The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30
TRIP SOUTH CONTINUED.

. will continue my story by sayin.
Suffolk has three Churches. 1t mad
t us feel ut home when We went 10 Sab
beth School and Church. We was wei
r entertained. i more sociabIe peopl,
: cannot h. found IN the North. Thu
best of all IS. they have the gospe
preached winch is due tu their pros
/ perity. We heard . good old Bible ser
mon preached. You viii find The text ii
Psalms 5O:23. They usr some Bible
phrases which add tu the beauty 81
worship. TIpy also have Il beautiful
Cemetery With large monuments erect,
ed aud epitarh upon them, rs memen.
tos of the Old warriors who fought fol
their country.
Some OF The people must be strong
here. a young lady offered to carry my
wife in the house and they say carry
the morse out to water. On New Years
day we left FOR Richmond and when
about ten miles Off We saw a small
mountain III the woods Of slwdust.
The first thought was, there has been Il
sawmlll burned down. They had NOV
ed their mills about every ten miles, far
as Petersburg.
We saw some fields OF cotton, and
also some Notifications. Petersburg is
situated along the creek that cmpties
into the james river. During the siege
of PtIcts"Hra and Richmond which
lasted from June 1851 to April tSGJ.
IL great RUNNER Of actions and several
impOr ant battles took place. An ell
derry gentleman stepped On the train
here. ! approached him on the subject
of the C~onfederacy. lie was in the re-
bellion. lie said they burned a bridge
crossing this creek. lie was pleasant
and had much TO say on the subject. |
c0rnered him and he begun to show his
rebeIlious nature.
We arrived at Richmond, the capitol
of Va, at II O'Clock; secured our quar-
tiers at st. Clair Hotel; rode all over the
town and found it to he quite il city. |
was inquiring of Il gentleman who
said, 1--WE like yNu men to see eur city,
1t has Il fine capitol buildiug and many
beautiful monuments about it. Among
them is Washington's and other war
riOrs'. The lawn WAS covered with
gray squirrels. Opposite the capital
they are erecting Il very five city hall.
Electric cars and electric lights and
other improvement Richmond have. 1t
is noted for its rolling hills and deep
valleys. | have named one of the val
leys, o. no. 1t is about fifty feet deep.
AT times the water floods into their
houses.
From the mountains on the top of
TIE hill stands the mansion where JET
fersom Davis took his seat and lad to
leave May, 1865, after the surrender OF
the Confederate army, dressed in wom-
ems clothes. lie was detected 10y his
boots, and captured in Georgia, carried
to Fortress Monroe where he was kept
a prisoner, bat he was finally liberated.
This building IS used now for ii Semin-
airy.
Richmond and Petersburg were at
tackled N April 2nl. II WIS Il Union
victory. During the night Lee aban-
doned Petelsburg3aud Richmond which
were captured by the Union army
April Sd. Lee retreatcd westward to
join Johnston, in North Carlmi. Grant
Immediately went in pursuit Of Lee who
surrendered at AppomattoX Court
House ApIli 9ih. sherman had en-
gagged John-tn at Raleigh where he
surrendered April 2Gth, 1850. BY the
last of May the Civil Wac was over.
have no doubt if JEFF Davis could
have kept his scat and carried the Con
federatP banner and waved her nag
over the land of bondage and the land
of the free Richmond would he the
seat OF Government. They have a
beautiful landscape 1t is Il sight to
see. The cars are about forty feet
above the James river while crossing
it. The bottom of the river is covered
with rocks. There is a dam to raise
the water to make it nayigable far us
Richmond.
A building in which a MAJ was. ar
rested has been moved to Chicago. 1t
costthousands OF dollars. 1t will lie
at the Worlds Fair, We went through
Fredericksburg wlerethere was Il san
culinary battle. The Union army was
defeated With IA loss of about II 1000
men. On December 18th, 1862, Lee
moved his army in the rear of the town
threw mp strong ealth works. This
city is situated on the Itappahannock
river. We arrived at II place named
Wide Water on the Potomac river. 1t
was a beautiful scenery Of mountains,
valleys and bridges. We crossed the
long bridge over the potomac where the
Union soldiers went 10 Virginia to fight
We arrived in Washington January ,.
Put up in the hotel Imperial. | will
finish my story in next paper,
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