The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-09


r.- coll and for four years this was the
v,v 10 the battle field. Just n little TO
the vest IS Bull Run. where on mat sum
r..~ Sunday morning, now a g~cheIdloH
rr, though the memory Of IT is so VIVID,
l.Iur.clId. just gone 10 MS tollh. al
most the last among tic survivors OF hls
rank I'm tho great struggle; and Johnston,
almost next 10 the last; and Jackson,
who viii survive them both, met the
army marching on 10 Richmond and
f.r-rr into fame. suddenly changing the
affair from "a holiday cncampmenJ INTO
Oh. Interest war of modern times. Then
later on where the fields are so quiet
now was fought another even more san
culinary battle. when men lay so thlck
that. 81 g. said. they were literally pileu
Dn on each other. 1t is curious how otten
different battles were fought on the same
ground.
Here fo tho south was another road, and
a. wn follow 80 we come along the margin
@ the Potomac 20 the quiet little town
~ fredericksburg. quioter II possible even
ttan Alexandria. Here before the war
was au almost unique town, with a society
the ike II which was seWhere found
o,'v Ga country noighborhoods. The gem
trr ~ the R~appahaunock had their resi-
da...q hrro. somewhat as on a more
frl..lil scale the Mississippi planters
Ial theirs az Natchez. George Washing
t.r won't e. school here, and here MS
.ter lived and died i'm "A quaint little
cl house. with Its garden behind H. as
% was who She received Lafayette there
flntr-rot in hand. Not long since a gang
% sl.rulators ~ r. sharp trick thought
tf.v had secured the little tomb ana IN
f,itt.i monument. and making them
e. special feature Of a brazen corner-lot
advertisement. they prepared 70 cry
them for a sale in washington on t'e
day NJ "a great celebration. rms was a
lr'e more than Fredericksburg could
ft.rd and there was an excitement in
tr. place such as had not been there
s.ee the DAYS when armies used 10 APP
ir ON the heights yOnder ana open
their p01ns upon the place. lnceed, there
Was more excitement, for General DaD-
ieF III. Maury tells how during Burn
tits h3mDardmenr one OF the old gen
temen - The place, "a church warden OF
ff Georges. took his chair out ana ,dt
ell day iu his garden 20 show his uncon-
Germ. Commodore Maury was born I'm
tnis quiet town. and Lewis Herndon, VINO
gave "a friend his watch and last mes
tere 20 DIS. young wife and won't down
WIN Hs ship as calm as II he lad been
sailing into port.
Down the river. where It widens out, Is
"esimoreland, the birthplace Of Washing
',t and tte Lees. Some years ago, a Re
l~-hl.an representative in Congress from
Se" England. having slurred at Virginia,
Srl+r 'fichcr, who then represented
"~'eInor'land In the House, rose ana
hial'a mat from within a circle OF twenty
m.''s 100 DIS own county had come George
~"9nlNtipns Arthur Lee. Charles Lee
L.fnt Horse Harry" Richard Henry Lee
snp robert T. Lee. while only a little out
80 On 'nat radius had come Thomas
...'ihoh' James Madison. James Monroe,
"a ne might have added Paul Jones.
m@tthe" +. Maury and. Lewis Herndon.
" was a convincing reply.
We are now on the very ground where
"at was mainly fought. In the county
~ npoleyiyania, IN which Fredericksburg
s.s,oo ihree campaigns were fought out
M apVD men we're oiled and wounded.
NV niue Town Was On the road 10 Rich