Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-21

| flatly and In tho end the will was re-
turned TO tho governor. who for
warded II 10 the county where II nov
In carefully preserved In the old
| court house.
Besides It's Washington records.
Fairfax court house has the mourn
ful honor OF cotnmemo Grating tho first
| southerner 10 die IN the Civ) war. a
monument erected before the build
i1g records It with this epitaph.
% MARI
This stone marks the scene Of the open
Ing conflict Of the war Of 1901 1895, when
JOHN Y, MARI
Captain OF tho ,W.rrenton Rifles, who va.
feet :, 40 feet W. tmsg) OF this spot. Juns
/. 1891
Erected by Mari Camp, c. v.
June 1904,
Captain MARI was sheriff OF Fau-
quier county. and brother 10 Fannie
Mari, the southern poet.
The old court house bears on it,
RrChod doorway the mark OF a bullet
from northern cavalaryman's rifle
which was fired In this engagement
ana which Ii said to have been the
first shot fired In the war
Later in the strife. Colonel Moseby.
the famous Confederate guerilla
leader, crept into Fairfax t>wn and
kidnapped General StouEhton OF ver-
mont from tho Episcopal rectory,
without even alarming several thou
sand northern troops who were un.
der atsughton's command.
Fairfax county also was tho scene
OF the famous killing OF Major EllH-
worth OF Ellsworth 2ouaves. He tore
down n confederate flag from the
Marshall House In Alexandria, and
the proprietor, James w. Jackson OF
Fairfax, who had sworn that n
should not bo taken save over his
dead body. shot him as he ran down
tho steps, only TO fall dead himself,
shot and (bayoneted by Lieut.. Frank
brownell OF the zouavcs.
The Land OF Our History.
On the roadS leading through that
part OF Virginia tho war trampled
ts way angry and red ana deep.
Yet whoever passes there now VIII
see little vcstige OF II. except grave.
Yards here and there whore. In tho
summer. Virginia's glorious roses
cover the quiet slsepsrs with pas.
sionate beauty. Quiet and stiiI and
peaceful lie the historic Highways,
once the most stirring OF all the
colonies. over which rode old
Governor Spottswood with hi,
Knights OF the Golden Horseshos 20
search for n lonked for pass through
the AlleEhanies to the rich valleys
OF the west; where virginia's provin-
cialR In fringcd buckskin, rode 10
join Admiral Vernon for the siees
Of fever-strtcken, CarthAgena, never
to return to their Golden virginia.
but to rest on the coral floor Of the
azure Caribbean or to mouldsr In
the South American Graveyarda thai
took the expedition's Thousands
where other virginiAn buckskins
under young Colonel washington
followed Braddock on that equally
disastrous march into the western
wilderness. and where at last Gen.
eral George Washington rode to joIn
battle with Lord CornwAllis whose
surrender made America free,
As Thackeray says In The vir.
ginianG': 1T was strange that In q
savage forest In Pennsylvania, Q
young virginian officer should fire
a shdN and wake up . war which was
TO last for sixty years. which We 10
cover his own country and pass Into
Europe, 10 cost France her Amsri.
can colonies, and TO create the treat
western republic; 10 rage over the
old world when extinguishsa In tbs
new: and OF all the myriads engaged
In the vast contest. to leave the prize
Of the greatest fame with him who
struck the first blowV'