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The Scene Of Our Military Operations

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Day
20
Month
June
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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JUjvery mep trou by tho Union armv since teáviog Yorktown, has been on classic ground. Williamxburg, lliö eeat of William and Mary College, was the capital of the colony oí Virginia, and UDtfl the aJoption of tho constitution in 1789, the capita] of tho iodepeadeot Stato. Winchester, farther up thö country, was, in the early part of the last oelnury, the seat of an old Englwh huntsman, whose borses and hou n ds ranged all aloog the country, followed by tho Virginia ari.stocracy, and oftentirries by tlie youthful Washington. - Hanover and New Kent couniies, tradiiion tt'lls u's, were the country of Powbutan, the famous Indian Chief, and the Chickahorniny, near Bottotu's Jiiiilgo, was the ecene of Pocahontas' hei-oie exploit, by which tho lite of the celebratëd John Smith was sayed - The Engliehmao Uolfe wooed and won the sabia princotís on the banks of this oelebrated river', and some of their deucendants, the great Raodolph fnmilv, are cstablished south of hert1, belovv Petersburg, in Roanoke couDty. As thu army )assed tlirough Virginia, they were near Monticello and Montpeliur, the seats of Jefferson and Madison. - White Fío nee, lp Xovv Kent, v:is the homo of Mis. Custis. Coal Ilarbor, its vicinity, n Hanover, gavo birtb to Patrick lionry, and Ashland, to Henry Clay. Kiehmond was, for a lonjg time, the rosidence of Chief Justice Marshall. Every_ inchofsoil, froin Yorktown to Kichmond, is eelebrated :is ti:(! resideope if somo patriot or bero whose name is renowned throngbout the earth, ar.d the peoplo living tlicro liavo numberieas tráuitions of those great men, whose mantle, it is sai! ti teil, has lallen on strangers, and not npnn Virgtöiahs. The lust remnant of Powhatfan'e Iribe, witliout any virtuea ol" thoir raad, 1)U wilh all their vicos, no.v jjivo in a few miserable huta at Indiantown, on tt:e Patnunky, It is a soirovvíul tnsk to go over this country, sócred for so many tneniortes, and find it, at this day, so lost and dis honTud. Even Wachingtpo'a desuenduntH, tho lasl ivho s-hould havu faltercd, are fonod foremost in thu ranks of truason." Z'L Gov Johnson of TcnncKsce requires persons wlio avow secessiun. ! meiits within his jurisdictioti to tako tlie u-itli of.allegisace to the govcrument and to giv'é bon ds tor its faitlifal obscrvaüco; failin h wliicli thiy aro to Lo ' ■i-til into ftccéssia proper, and ' Jen to come bsck utulcr penalty ot' bcing H-eatcd ;s jiíos,

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Old News
Michigan Argus