The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
ON HISTORIC GROUNDS.
A CORRESPONDENT RECALLS WAR
SCENES OF ANTIETAM.

n tVhhEfJI DENE W n IL
SCENES OF ANTIETAM.
West Virginia Educational Meeting at
ShepherdstOwn, Near the Famous
Battle Ground-Interesting Memories
of Thirty Odd Years Ago.
A gentleman who attend the re-
cent meeting of the w. Va. Educa-
tional Association writes to his home
paper from Shepherdstown giving
some interesting "reminiscences of the
war
The following is what he says
Being in this quaint old town at
tending the annual meeting of the
West Virginia Educational Associa-
ton, | am reminded that 1t has been
my custom for years to let your
readers know something of what
takes place, and something of the To-
cality in which the meeting is being
held.
We are met in this historic old
town where the first school was
taught within the limits of what is
now West Virginia; the town where
Rumsey launched the first steam
boat ever constructed, the town
made famous from the fact that the
bloody battle of Antietam was fought
so near it, town which is now one
OF the educational centers ofour state.
1t was my privilege in company with
some twenty-five or thirty other
members of the association to visit
that famous battlefield, called by the
confederates the battle of Sharps
burg, but known by us as the battle
of Antietam and those who have had
the privilege of going over the ground
trod 81 and 30 years ago when as a
soldier he was enlisted IN defence of
the Old Flag, know and they only,
the feelings that fill the breast. As
| sat under the same tree that / sat
under then, near by the little brick
bunker church made famous from
the scars left in it by shot and shell
on the that bloody 18th of Septem-
Der 1862, as l walked along that
Bloody Lane" where confederates
were piled from six to seven deep,
when | stood by the bridge made IA
nous by the desperate charge of
Burnside and Hooker, when / saw
the beautiful national cemetery, one
of the finest in the land, and every
thing so peaceful and so quiet on
this beautiful July day nearly 33
years after that dreadful day of
carnage, | could scarcely think that
such scenes could have been enacted
there, and now all be peace again.
But so it is. War has ceased. The
Blue and the Gray were there to-
gether and bred with each other in
professions of loyalty to that flag in
defense of which the thousands of
gallant men gave up their lives, and
now lie buried beneath the grassy
mounds in the cemetery. We view
the greatness of our country, and
the patriotism of our people in
broader light than when viewed
through the eyes of narrow minded
prejudice.
This night just SO years ago / first
visited this beautiful little village,
but under very different circum-
stances. That morning about 500 |
of our cavalry were driven from
Darksville above Martinsburg, and
night found us here Our company,
myself in command, were placed on
picket about half mile below the
town, on knoll over looking the Pc
tomac and there we lay until morn
ing, when we were forced to cross
the river on account of the Johnnies
wishing to take our places, whether
we were willing or not. | well re-
member how willing we were to cross
and to get safely behind knoll on
the Maryland shore, and no doubt if
any of the boys of company d, 22nd
Pa. cavalry read this they will re-
member how they gathered around
me and called for Fourth of July
speech. How | mounted a stump
and called on them to know if they |
felt just as patriotic and as much |
like whipping the Southern Confed-
eracy as we did two years before, on
that day, at the great war meeting
held in Beallsville? And no doubt
they will all remember that not one
responded in the Affirmative How
these scenes all come to me as |
write. | meet those here, on every |
side, who were against US then, but
who now are just as loyal and per
haps much more so than they would |
have been had there been no war,
for they have learned the fearful cost
of fighting against sold Glory" and
trying to raise another flag to the
mast head OF the ship of the State.
Our State Association is proving
wonderful success. DIR. Good |
knight the newly elected President
of our State University is with us
and is making hosts of friends We
think we have the right man at last
at the head of our leading school and |
we expect to have its halls filled |
with students as they have never
been before. So mote it be
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