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Will Be Objects of Interest.

SeCrateQ Dy Ine same ceremony OA thS
same day, Sunday, July II. 1866.
Will Be Objects Of Interest.
These monuments will be objects OF
unusual interest to visitors to the G.
A. r. encampment, as well as
boulder tablet erected in memory of
Col Fletcher Webster on the spot
where he fell August 30. 1862, while
calamity leading his regiment, the
18th Massachusetts, Volunteers. Col.
Webster was the son of Daniel Web
ster.
There are other memorials on the
Bull Run fields, including those in
honor of the dead of the 14th Brooklyn
Regiment, the 5th New York Infantry
(Duryee's Zouaves); the 10th New York
National Zouaves), and several Con-
federate monuments. Then there is the
famous stone house, which was used
two battles of Bull Run. The old Dugan
house in all its wartime simplicity
and still bearing the scars of battle
Cub Run bridge and hill and the ia
nous Stone bridge, where the first gun
was fired in the first battle of Bull
Run.
Arlington to Be Visited.
A point of pathetic interest to visit
ors will be Arlington national ceme-
terry, where sleep thousands of Union
and Confederate warriors, and within
whose hallowed precincts stands the
ancient Custis-Lee mansion in all it's
old time glory. Arlington Is but a few
minutes ride from Washington, across
the Potomac. and thence to the Vir-
ginia hills in the near background.
mains of wartime defenses, including
Fort Whipple, now Fort Myer, where
are quartered several troops of regular
cavalry and batteries of light artillery.
To the north of Arlington is the
venerable Chain bridge. another relic
Of the civil war. where in 1861 the
District of Columbia militia was lined
up to prevent invasion of Washington
from that direction. To the south of
Arlington is the site Of old Long bridge
war period, and which was crossed
and recrossed many times by the
forces of Uncle Sam. The original
bridge, demolished some years ago,
has been replaced by two modern steel
structures forming part of the high
Alexandria, Va. seven miles away.
This ancient city will be another point
of interest for the thousands of visitors
who come to Washington to witness
in the functions incident to the great
encampment. The old hotel in which
Col. Ellsworth was killed by Jack
son. the slave pen. the Colonial Brad
dock house, old Christ Church,
which was attended by Gen. Washing
monuments are some of the remaining
features Of antiquity in old Alexan-
dria.
Also Of Historic Interest.
On the Potomac river. south of Wash
;xrr =,
points of wartime interest, including
the monuments at Point Lookout,
where thousands of Confederate prison.
ers of war were held in stockades and
prison camps. Near Point Lookout, the
government has erected an imposing
monument in memory of the more than
5000 southern soldiers who died
there while prisoners. Another
monument to the prisoner-dead was
erected by the state of Maryland, while
the general government has construct
ed at point in full view of Chesapeake
bay a memorial to the men in blue who
died while on duty there.
Beyond the mouth of the Potomac,
where it empties into the broad wa
tiers of the Chesapeake, piled by pas
senger steamers from Washington, Is
the famous stretch of water where
the Confederate monitor Merrimac and
the little Union monitor engaged In a
death grapple in Hampton roads. On
the shore line from Hampton roads is
located Fort Monroe, famous in war
time history, and nearby the National
Soldiers Home at Hampton. Further
southwark lies Norfolk, Va. the scene
of stirring activities in the tragic days
which marked the period of the civil
war.
In fact. in all directions from Wash
ington, and within easy access are
localities in which American history
has been rlf1ce. Any of these woulC
form the objective for a weekend
jaunt during the progress of the forty
ninth encampment or at Its close.