Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-11-18
ENJOYING CAMP
LIFE, VIRGINIA
Lieutenant A. M. Andrews of Bara.
boo Tells Something of His Elk.
periences Near Washington

This office has received the following
interesting letter from Lieutenant
Arthur M. Andrews, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George w Andrews, Baraboo. He
is student at West Point but for the
present is at Camp A A, Camp Hum
phrey, Virginia, He says:
1 thought perhaps you would be IN
terested to know that still. enjoy The
News through my parents. This place
is on the historic Potomac. ABOUT 20
miles south of Washington. 1t is the
engineer training headquarters for
that corps Of the army. For the last
two months, we have been engaged in
surveying, mapping and reconnaiss-
ance work. But four miles from here,
overlooking beautiful stretch of the
Potomac, is beautiful M ,unt Vernon.
Here the first president of the Tinted
States liv a before and after the
Revolution. 1t is of interesi, - know
that the rC0lns in the maus4o4 havt
been dedicated to the. several. Estates
.jae arms of tie state Of. Wisconsin
are displayed in the room where
Martha. Washington. died. .e,t
Nearer Washington in sofd rAlexan-
dria stands Christ church in which
Washington's pew is still preserved.
Fairfax parish to which Alexandria be-
longs was created in 1865, and among
the first vestry men appointed were
George Washington, then thirty-three
years Of agea Across the aisle from
Washfngtohss pew is that of the Lees.
It's silver plate bears the name of
Robert e. Lee in autograph.
Just across the Potomac from Wash
ington istsAflington, where the silent
hosts who died in the War for the
Union sleep, and more recently those
who died overseas. One cannot but
have his patriotism quickened when
he wanders through the Field of the
Dead and is brought closer to those
four years of conflict.
OF peculiar interest is the monument
of the dead, Over two Thousand sold
iers, deprived of the individual mea-
sure of fame which each one by his
daring and dying deserved, are denied
the poor desert of recognition, no
Identification. Thus follows the SIM
Pic starry: q sss'4.1
- 81 = Y * X * * * y * = * y -
* Beneath this stone -
81 Repose the bones of two thous- =
* and one hundred and eleven y
y From the fields of Bull Run y
* and the route to the Rappahan- y
/ * mock. 4
| * Their remains could not be *
* identified but their names and =
* deaths are recorded in the *
* archives of their country, and *
* it's gratified citizens *
* Honor them as of their noble X
az army of matyrs. y
& May they rest in peace. y
* September A. D. 1866 y
* * 81 X * y y * * * y y y y *
GD0 OuAAE ny IAOS NJ
A. r. to be a memorial to the soldier
deal ard an assembly place or Fec
Grafton Day. is a replica Of old Gre
clan structures and is open 20 the fky.
1t is plainly visible from Washington.
/; Forty-two miles east of Washington
is Annapolis, the seat of the govern
ment of the state of Maryland and the
home Of the Naval Academy, wit
messed a game between Georgetown
and the Navy last Saturday in which
the able middies smothereG the Georg-
town "Hoya' gang, largely through the
efforts Of the Nays powerful line
which boosts several of the Olympic
champion rowing crew. Georgetown
was the only team to defeat the Navy
last year, so the victory was hugely
eel hrlte
With best regards to Baraboo friends
LIT. A. M. ANDREWS