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soldier on
granite base stands under the big trees
in the courthouse grounds. In FalrIaA
Court House are two Confederate mon
uments. One is a tall granite shaft on
a green knoll in the village cemetery
by the side of the Little River turn
pike. The shaft is inscribed with the
names of the sons of Fairfax county
who. serving in the Confederate army
or navy, perished in the war. In the
courthouse square and by the side OF
the turnpike, which is the main street
of the village, a few hundred yards
east of the monument in the cemetery
is a memorial of rough-hewn blocks OF
granite dedicated to Capt. Marr of the
Warrenton Rifles, killed near the spot
on which the memorial stands, and VINO,
according to the inscription on the
granite, was the first soldier OF the
civil war killed in action. The Confeo-
crate monument in Alexandra Is
known to many Washington people
Prince William county has a Con.
federate monument. a thick ana taii
shaft of red-brown sandstone, IN q
rallied plot in the village cemetery at
Manassas. About five miles nortn oy
west a white column stands in httIe
ton turnpike, close to Groveton Cor.
ners. The men who sleep under ana
close about that monument 1ell IN tne
fields around. for that monument stanus nus
on one of the dread battlefelds OF the
civil war-the second battle OF Bull
Run Fauquier county has IT'S Con
federate monument, which stands aooye
one great and common grave IN tne
center of the village cemetery at War
renton-
The Rambler does not remember see
ing Confederate monument IN the
county seat of Stafford county. and he
believes that had one been there he
would recall it. 1t has been year
since the Rambler passed over the road
between Washington. Alexandria. Po-
hick, Occoquan. Dumfries. stafford
Court House. Falmouth and Freder-.
icksburg, and the old court building
and it's newer part, the ancient clerks
office. the JAIL the village inn and the
rambling road street come clearly De- 9
fore the minds eye, but the Rambler
sees no Confederate monument in the
picture, though, of course, 1t is posi-
BILE that one may be there.
There is Confederate monument in
the county seat of King George. which,
like the county seat of STAFFORD: is only
a few miles back from the Potomac
river. One of the very handsome Con-
federate monuments in the territory
rightly tributary to Washington stands
within an iron fence and in the mid
die of grassy plot a few yards from :
the courthouse in the village of Mon
tross. the county seat of Westmoreland
county.
Northumberland county has made
provision for a. Confederate monument,
SO the Rambler was informed, and one
will soon be erected. II indeed it has =
not already been put in place.
On the Maryland side of the Potomac
are counties without a monument to
their boys who fought in the Confed- -
crate service. And the soldiers from
southern Maryland stood as high in
the Confederate armies. or particularly
in the Confederate army of Northern
Virginia. for valor and efficiency as
Maryland troops stood In the CONT
mental army. There is a handsome Con-
federate monument in Rockville to the
sons of Montgomery county and there
is gray stone above the common grave
of unknown Confederates at Grace
Church on the 7th street pike, between
Sligo and Forest Glen.
Marlboro is without a memorial to
the sons Of Prince Georges who wore
the gray. and the Rambler recently
asked man who had passed through