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Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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but there was such a crowd around the scene it be would useless for me to try to
get there. I said that my father was there, and that I must know if any evil had be-
fallen him. Then they told me he had been wounded. That drove me frantic, I
begged them to let me go and help him—that he loved me, and would want me near
him. A lady, seeing my agony, said to me, 'My dear child, you can do no good;
your father is in heaven.' "
The bodies of the victims of this dire calamity, which cast a gloom over the whole

OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 117

land, were taken up to the capital. Five hearses, conveying the remains of Messrs.
Upshur, Gilmer, Kennon, Maxey, and Gardiner, followed by a long train of carriages
and a great concourse of citizens, on horseback and afoot, passed in silence up Penn-
sylvania Avenue and proceeded to the Executive Mansion. The coffins of the distin-
guished dead were taken into the East Room and placed on biers to await the funeral
solemnities which occurred on the Saturday following.
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OLD HISTORIC LETTERS.

What is the harvest they bring us,
Flotsam ot life and the years?
Kissed by the dust in their sleeping
Bathed in loves sunshine and tears.

The enthusiastic delver among old historic records now and then finds himself in the
presence of veritable apparitions of personages whose faces are seen no more save as
they look down through the limnings of the painter from their lonely places on the old
ancestral walls, whose voices were silent long generations before the time of his earliest
memories.
These are the apparitions : A bundle of letters, folded, tied and laid away, when and
by whom, by what careful, loving hands no record tells us. They rise up from old
trunks, boxes, barrels and musty shelves, in dust-strown lofts and garrets. To sit down
alone in the quiet and open these bundles of missives, faded and worn, sometimes in
tatters and hardly decipherable, is like taking a long journey backward through the vanished
years, and holding pleasant communion with the dead, and learning somewhat of the
lore of the times when they were living, moving actors of the world's wide stage.

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