The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-24
The herbase OF your grave.

Inc herbage OF your grave.
Nor shall your glory be forgot
=, While Fame her record keeps,
or Honor. points the balowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Nor wreck nor change, nor Winters blight.
=, NOR Times femorseless doom,
shall dim one ray Of holy light
Ihat gilds your glorions tomb
=, There could not he more glorious tomb
man Atlinston. From these hills the Capi.
ital City Is seen, spreading out like a
picture, framed by the Potomac and the
heights which surround 1t. Here is the tine
oid mansion. home of the Lees, with It's
huge colonnade the great porch the big
freplacrs. the out-kiichens AMI save quart,
ers. Everything Is maintiiuei a. nearly as
possible IN the condition IN which 1t was
when General Lee left here. Occasionally
the mansion and other building are repaint.
ed but always with the same dull yellow,
which was their original hue.
Inc most beautiful monument in Airline
ton. the one which at rac's more visitors
than any other is that to Sheridan. II
stands on sharp decliyity. nearly in front
ofthe mansion where its simplicity is shown
to great advantage, Below for soma distance
Is open greensward farther down native
forest and beyond the river and the city,
In the latter the tower Of the Church Of the
Covenant, near which General Sheridan 80
long had his home, and where his widow
now liues showing spicuously. Not far
away, OH the same hi lsit,e il the grave of
Admiral Porter, asyet unmarked by y
monument.
More pathetic than ANYTHING else in Ar.
| lington is an obong granite pi.e which
marks the site Uf II pit wherein were buried
| the bones OF 9 III unknown soldiers gather.
! ed after the War from the fields OF Bull
Run and the route to the Rappahannock
| The inscription of this monument tells the
story and whoever wrote that inscription
simple, strong and loving-was Ioet,
probably without consciousness oft:
m Here lie. me bons; Of "a unk, yg soldiers;
! their names and deaths are recorded IN the
TS e honor 20 % them as @ noble de army o.
| mnrtyrs May they re't In y, ace .....'
Turn from this sad spot to the interior OF
the old mansion and read from tablet up.
| on the wall these figures
INTERVIEWS ~ ARLINGTON CEMETERY.
Ohcers ......................
White soldiers ....................l0, ,703
| Colofed soldiers. ...................... ofN
| sailors '...'. '''''''''' '.''''''''''''i
| Officers wives. ,.................... -
| Onicers Children neutrality-suspicious.. I'D
| Soldiers wives. Observation-Disclosures. q
| Soldiers children. .......................W ~
| Quartermasters employees. .......... 267
| lOntraDanus' ..''' ''''''''''''''o'fo
! Confederate officers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
| Confederate soldiers. r5.............-......2
Legs and arms. s....................... ...46
|
| lOtai. ...... ................... .......lO,Dot
| or these are KNOWN. ...............ll,l5
| UNKNOWN. '.....'...... .''''..'..'''.foi3
On every Decoration Day when loving
hands come to cover the graves of these
fallen hosts with flowers. the Confederate
officers, the Confederate So ldiers. even the
legs and arms, will not be forgotten, Thus
the tragedies of war and the glories OF peace
bl end at Arlington,