{"id":13799,"date":"2012-03-01T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:30","slug":"february-12-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/03\/01\/february-12-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"February 12, 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\nFebruary
\n12
\nMy<\/span> birthday. So it is Pres\u2019t
\nAbram Lincoln\u2019s. Set out for
\nMount Vernon with brother Charles
\nby the way of Alexandria and
\non horseback. Magnificent day. As
\nwe journeyed on I pointed out to C.
\nthe various camps we had occu-
\npied while in this vicinity, where
\nwe had picketed, and the forts
\nwe helped build. We took the Old
\nMount Vernon Road, the same one
\nLafayette took when he visited
\nthere, as Mrs. Whitney told us.
\nMrs. W. who lives in sight of this
\nhallowed spot and who knew me
\nat once although I had never spoken
\nwith her before last summer and then for
\nthe first time, prepared supper for
\nus on our return.
\nWe<\/span> raced many times
\nand each time Jeff would lead.<\/p>\n
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In the evening we attended a
\nUnion meeting at Alexandria and
\nenjoyed it exceedingly. They were
\ndiscussing the resolutions com-
\nmendatory of the course of those
\nofficers who on a previous Sabbath
\nremoved from his desk the Rev.
\nMr. Stewart for omitting certain
\nportions of the service; i.e. the
\nprayer for the President and that
\nall \u201ctreason and rebellion might
\nbe purged from our midst.\u201d This
\nhe had been doing repeatedly
\nSabbath after Sabbath. Besides
\nthis public deriliction [sic] of duty
\nhe has in his private life given
\nfrequent and unmistakable testi-
\nmonies of strong personal sympathies
\nfor the rebels. Many pithy sayings
\nwere uttered against the reverend
\ngentleman and his treasonable
\ncourse.<\/p>\n

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While<\/span> at Mount Vernon I
\ntook notes as usual. I always
\nget some new view on fall in
\nwith some fresh item of interest
\nevery time I visit this sacred
\nspot.
\nOver<\/span> the iron grated entrance
\nto the tomb there are engraved
\nthese words:-
\n“Within<\/span> this enclosure
\nrest<\/span> the remains of
\nGenl.<\/span> Geo. Washington.\u201d
\nAnd<\/span> as you look
\nwithin you notice on the opposite
\nwall engraved on a marble
\nslab, these noble and lofty words
\nof St. John:
\nI<\/span> am the resurrection and
\nthe life: he that believeth in me
\nthough he were dead yet shall
\nhe live. And whosoever liveth and<\/p>\n

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believeth in me shall never die.\u201d
\n(11 cap:25.26)[sic]<\/span><\/p>\n

Around<\/span> the tomb of
\nWashington there are erected
\nseveral monuments commem-
\norative of the decease of relatives.
\nI was so interested with the
\ninscriptions upon them that
\nI copied several portions.
\nAs the visitor passes
\ndown the walk after reaching
\nthe tomb he turns to the left.
\nOn the left are two monuments
\nwithin an iron fenced enclosure.
\nOne of these bears the following
\ninscription:-
\n“To<\/span> x x x x x Mrs. M. E. A. Conrad
\nwife of Chas M. Conrad of N. O.
\ndaughter Lawe & Eleanor C. Lewis and
\nGrand niece of General Geo Washington\u201d-<\/p>\n

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On the other is written:-
\n“To<\/span>x x x x Eleanor Parke Lewis
\nGrand daughter of Mrs. and
\nadopted daughter of General W.
\nReared under the roof of the
\nfather of his country this lady
\nwas not more remarkable
\nfor the beauty of her person
\nthan for the superiority of her
\nmind.\u201d
\nOn<\/span> the first of these
\nmonuments there was also this
\nadditional inscription:-
\nIf<\/span> the possession of every virtue
\nthat adorns or dignifies her sex
\ncould have warded off the stroke
\nof death she would have been im-
\nmortal; and those who mourn
\nher untimely and are consoled
\nby the reflection that those virtues
\nseemed better to fit her for the<\/p>\n

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abode to which her spirit has
\nfled than for that which it
\nhas abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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[Written in margin sideways<\/em>: Evidently this space was filled afterwards with other matter relating to the visit to mount Vernon; -but which, for want of time, or inclination was never done.<\/p>\n

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I<\/span> am more impressed with what is omitted from this Diary than what is inserted in it. I recall many interesting [?] incidents that are even mentioned here.
\nRC<\/span> Shannon
\nBrockport N.Y.
\nFebruary<\/span> 1, 1905<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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