The Story of Arlington (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Story of ArlingtonThe visitor to the National Capital who, on a bright spring day, gazes admiringly from the summit of the loftiest of monuments upon the City of Magnificence with its beautiful environs spread out before him, will remark, as his eye scans the Virginia shore of the placid Potomac, the gleaming pillars of a classic structure perched amid luxuriant foliage upon the crest of a distant height, fully two hundred feet above the river. This is the mansion at arlington - a name synonymous with deathless patriotism and graven upon the hearts of more Americans than that of any other spot on the globe. Indeed, not even hallowed Mount Vernon is so rich in historic associations, for Arlington is at once the old home of the adopted son of George Washington, who, with tender recollections of the personality of that illustrious man, linked the past with the present century the former home of the principal actor in the drama of the Lost Cause, and as such endeared to all Southerners the last resting-place of thousands of heroic defenders of the Union, and therefore cherished at countless firesides in every Northern State, and, finally, the eternal bivouac Of hundreds of gallant martyrs of our recent war for suffering humanity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.