Pert Namsmeld esasieta of two redeabe sad fue iW~h views are m r eatertor battery. connected a eptmdn pgesate, * by ride trench. tere Firsw ball Ra. and the rebe11:0ese r a of Iwssws >a, w'6 t te. Ise--medesta he to.o wso h of Elver road. about a mile a good state prservatin, The stream s ms w had a and oud be seen from the dome of the Capttol Lanks the The 1is known Fert U tg. wed on Is the t 'i.e. gool part at mo wm .3G amttt~ hat ftaa Tenteytowa. .nd was named after The New York tesk e northern side. The plae was kneen the sesetb aid, of the Brentweed a bet Ge.e. C Nigw.il a o the "ap ta. A p thI athem as-et pee- th-wele -en eeengtd by Qhe Sen- tweaty-fret poesemion as read, flub na.es Joseph n. V. Mansfeld. who died at Munon's hill and its gMes .pon thb "orvli" befen the war, pad the old east of it ereasse New Tes. the snemb yeo m es bbu g.4nrx. IL. wp II. U12. of wounds re- Q-taker where the Queen's Cabiel As,e pr.te nd irmue are daing withdrawal of the eafederatse. septemsber ! eolonial-looking mansion at the feet of the a b i.moi. sywe euidmus -d -esa te d i. .'&.iadaa. This gallant ofMeer did send, about two and half iles south of ths mateped1dwJ s Ptee'.1......branes Pethe.. , . meat and A debbm 1i841. An imposing seese was witnessed on the bill, with Its red roof and old brick ides. has hNewfert ba saa parapet. et the bq.ek towar.l ..ritgmating and completing the east of Manson's Hill on the :ith of No it. The old works are nearly obliterated. -elater igandeet1,1 to0he easward, net 'ar o The feetto best 'dees-.. ~! I. plhin an ansient Some reashed For" o bin' CM M.'ahingtnot. bi foresight be- vember. 1661. It was *te occasion of Gen. Me appearance.. enturpritag the site being now a eltivated Aeld. belonging from Weahingtea by way f George- ofesll. after seou (Atli Ron. e>a bsam bags :he ere :.' o! and ~ging eitbeas of Alexandria have selected the Isseate take from the hespihule, and repre- tows and the conduit read. It asased for meat eonisted of angeeting the Clellan's grand review of his army preparatoer place toa Mrs Wlalh. A little south of the fort, on r Was hirts..ag..,of whis fear bs. Ca*m ml Wmbe, wv 6atidil!n. of tIh... worts. rl fort was bult on as the site of a newvilla to be *alied Marvin. seating nearly every in the Arsm of Gen. Edwin Yese Sumner. who died of wounds were W-pounder sae: se t6peander how- to starting oan the peninsula Oampigs. Falls the egposite of the Brentwood road. stood the Potomae. The was tL.e farm of II."lamh Pen and stood a quarter of 3ts).000 in aeal and U'raulant array and it is said that the old works are to form sid 1t garrisoned by seesed at Antiesam. wble lading the mesead itasr. four 3- ader fierrott, two 4-pouadse troops. the use of . a ndj. t the westward of Fort Simamoa, Its Lincola ac part of a and are to be Battery Morris, erected for Mld ny 1', sevety-sisth new Yor, doring corp. and was lsgely bemk by theMe han- rided .ew A--- mee- armannat pad in review before President projected public prk thee At half of the In bee snaer gu.ad U-pouade Fert b"Ars consated of one 8-lach ae coast and e of his cabinet. Thosands of preserved in that way. e fort was named Fiease. The elevation is Ln foed aboe. mess year last. died and seventeenth 3iew York. It was oe tar. Waved heM Wle «s-p tw.. I raember olll ivws garrisoned. ether p-.andret bowiars. faor 4.-lath rifed in wages and on foot-sea. women anc after Gen. John Fulton Reynolds. a native of tide level. The one hundred and twelfth Penn- among troup. of the largeet of the fort. lnd its armament What- is left of these old weds vin be tat; whoe .aee leftof te br j f andioaero,- Sns. B. Maine people, who was killed in the by leMeats New Hampshire heavy artS- eonsiased of three S-inch bewit.ses. eight 32. found in the of Columbus ponder Compav children, of every degree. gathered from ever] Lancaster, Pa., opening sylvania oeapied this fort in IeSs and helped one hundred and barnyard Aewander. ad was iiy as e~ga of Pe II eaa.t :rd ,and det-schmente o the one !ma- and 'row walk is lie to wit lery. fiftieth Ohio National andnderrandfour r sea coast gns. which stan.ma is the soashwest angle fermed by sad as as So dr d ..;4 > t. -trt direction every Gaard, tourteenth Michian and oem- Iwo then known aisfi be . 11 and oah hundred and seven- ness the afaar. such a military spectacle 'wad battery. 10-peander P1sarrotte, sia 441-inek the jantieN old Ball's Crow Roads' read and paales A and B r . pasd the of the tr I ilaks National Guhard garrisoned thi. fort was Kiaa uwyivania rifed gem. sil 6-eander James. one I0-inhb roand. the latter now known as spur u4dt th- hldMid M bh.e never before witnessed and only sUrpaset An aceount of 1a GSmeed Is givas siege mortar Miltary bring River sad uwmmer of 11t54. The fort Is leveled, but in grandrar by the grand review Ia this city and two It-pounder ('ahons. Counts road. Perts isg and McPherson are rool. Woo aqumel Owm t m action of the riue pite ril] exists. "o"ectio with that of ort D. Rumy. Amseng thetroops that garrisoned the feet were to the southesatwar whie Fots O'3sr.I. ad Wc.4 be- Ge.. the close of hoetiSties. ut.no's Hill is aboul detachments of Whipmte. ead. bml isg The ra upon which Fort Matey stead was seven miles west of and one and s ioar samn. the Afty-ninth and one hundred Case. Woodbury. Murten and Cesar.. are to N eaut Teeus real bwe e h ri Washington and seventeenth New esi"ae~d aa -"2j'Prpspet HiUl by le. arles' men in half mse soath of Falls Church. On the pike a Thie powerful work was asmed after Gen. Teak, fourth New York the northward. euting tra brit.. Onk~r.Na tC1. as the. .'ame here from their camp at Ten- mile distant to the northward are Forts Raw- Charles F. Smith, who died of wounds reeoived the toe n. At satuated on the south side of the lintea and om rod n m om say. Taylor and Dufalo. while gallantly sealing the heights of Fort sU'emtheselfet 106. /et.. ~t FMrtllyer s spoken of in eoanectiom witt Denelson. The trtwn the account of Fert Whppie. twenty-ninth and thirtieth right of the Ire. as we l~e ps Fort O'Rorke is reached from Ales companies Massachusetts heavy artillery were .ti.. aevem the trial twoe Wdl4r as ams th mle tte atadWa andris by way of South Patrick street among the troops that garrisoned the fort. Creek and Gravel road it was named in e IltSm w IN Hunting bridge She old works are Is a.good state of preserva- batwerhorof I..George L Ws It ean also be reahed with soal tion at and views LIIIC wbo wasn equal fsality by way of Telegraph road present, splendid landscape Mt(~seqe J* L Isl a£na it occrties the northeast angle formed by are obtained from them. But the ground is frame beiast wh was Mad ae odkam jnction and old Meant Verne for a new villa to be called Ivan- q~Iirf.rs during the oar. WWl smab in th the of Gravel platted ste, urndel ..f Utold wibe s roads and the old works are plainly vitbli wold, and the probabilities are that a very curkae ise flr Ss from the po:nt of the angle. From Alexandria short time will witness their entire demolition. of lwvacrvwadsm. The it. pihw wbhichs it is distant about ,me and a half miles. Origin The or tableland which the fort tendled kt. iaver road sad bs,'sm& ane1( plateau upon s', :r.-awrrvd. cad Wre itiW. free the ally it was an outpost of Fort Lyon, whlci stood was known before the war by the desig- ci'u~ii --a stood on the Monnt Vernon road a short die nation of "Carberry Meadows" and "led northward. The ftet i egl tnius tance to mas a fi-r n h ratt aad elmede shest 1i e the northward. and known House." The fort is best reached from George- above Api-si of "Redoubt C." Fort Farneortb was to the town by way of the Aqueduct bridge. Fails /be tie petome.. The ie sae northeastward and Port Weed-to the north- Church road, and Ivanwold by-read, the latter, cornplresjb hr dtacbes eq te t~e4sa westward. with both of which it was soanected which leads through the old works, being Lr a lae of ride pite The fort was named is entered at Fort Strong, about a mile south of POST WrtUJ&Ur ieptember. 186, after Col Patrick Henry Roseslyn. The fort was originally called "Fort stands one Traitor: Hill. ia the ae hs O'ltorke, wna hundred and fortieth New York, De Kalb." but it was rechristened on May N, by Littilsdttrer and Qeaaker MI tall .