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Show eral Milroy anil a portion of his command, the 9th Indians volunteers, who were captured in 18G3, were held as prisoners in it. Numerous copper plates are attached to the floors in this and in nearly all the rooms of the building. of war have from time to time visited the prison and located the places where they slept, and the manager puts' down their plate, giving name, rank, place, and time of capture and present residence. The next room we entered was the Lower Chickamauga, so named because all officers captured at the battle of Chickamauga were confined in it. A very large collection of portraits and paintings of war scenes is in it. Also some logs from the pines of Georgia, showing imbedded cannon balls. The Potomac and Gettysburg roms were arranged upon a plan similar to the Ex-prison- ers preceding ones. When we finally emerged from the building we found we had spent over four hours in it, and felt that our time as the museum is a had been well-speplace well worth visiting Tim Buff nt and Blue, -- - r I T I ' "' '" "f A FEW WORDS FOR THE LOVERS OF HISTORY. Continued. William the Conqueror ruled by main force. He won his good wife by rolling her in ths m il when sli3 refused to accept him as her husband. Like a woman, she thereupon owna.l him as h r lor.l an 1 m iter. itildi of Fl inders vfxi a d i voted Wife, a losing mother. AUt3 l by lurlalies, with her needle, she worked an im ujnse1 piece of embroidery, which tells in pictures the story of tin Con pie $t of E llanl by the Her four sons were rough U'uliird w killed while hunting in the New Forest. Robert, her darling, was brave and generous, ever in trouble. William was a bad m m. Henry, the youngest, was more of a scholar than his brothers. He wis fond of m )ii3) and liked his ease. Robert wanted Xor.nandy. He loved the country of his birth where his gentle mother had reared him. He askd his father to give it to him. The Conqueror said, "i- uttVtff jjull wiZ uiy clot bus until Nor-m.in- s. fel-lo.- Vi. - I go to b3 1." When, however, tlu kin j died, at his funeral his sons had to p:iy money down over his coffin for the ground in which he was laid. He had seized it unjustly anl lul not p lid for it. Robert was so anxious to join those who were goin jj to try am I drive the Turks oat of Palestine, the Holy Land, that he sold Norm indy, which his father had left him in his will, to William, who took the kingdom of E lglan 1 also. William was red hairel, hense his surame of It ifus. Here is another rhyme. William II.(Rufus.) William bv name of Hufus known, The second son ascends the throne, And seized his brother Robert's right, Who went in nri I crusades to light. While William not inclined to roam, Possessed him of his crown at home, Hut thirteen years concludes his reign By Tyrrell's luckless arrow slain, As in New Forest's ample space, He urged the stag in fatal chase. New Forest had oiue been full of people living on pleasant farms, William First drove the people out a:id they suf" fered much. Two of his sons, Richard and William, died violent deaths in the New Forest which he had cruelly taken for his hunting ground. William?, boJy was cirriel to Winchester and buried in the church there in a very plain tomb. Henry wa so busy getting the money and tryinj to get the batter of R b3rt, that he took no care about the funeral. The hUtory g03 021 to say. Henry I. 1100-113- 5 Henry the first, of warlike deeds, His brother Rufus now succeeds. With great success the crown he wore, Called Reanclere from his learned lore. While Robert from crusades returua 1, Tj m unit U13 burned, throne, his birthright Rat co.i juere I with thi loss of eyes, A captve, pent at Cardiff, dies. For five and thirty years wTe are tol I This king aid England's sceptre hold, For his drovv.iel sou m.ich sorrow feels. And dies in France of eating eels. Henry was an able mm, a wise mm. He married a princess of the Sixon family of kings. TnU pleass 1 the English, due was the daughter of the king of Scotland, who mirried a S.ixou princess, Margaret, called the good Queen because she was so pious. Queen M ir" ga rut built the smallest church- in the - world. It is still standing inside the walls of Edinburgh Castle. The walls are still strong, and it Ins tiny stained to say that glass windows. It is right it is now not believed that Henry put out his brother's eyes. Let us hope he was innocent of that fearful cruelty; but he kept him in prison, and his im: fortunate son after many misfortunes, died early. If Henry sinned he was punished. His only son William was lost at sea and the unhappy king "never smiled again." He left his kingdom to his daughter Matilda who had been twice married. First to the Emperor of Germany. By this marriage she had no children. She then married the Count of Anjou as her second husband. His name was Plantagenet, and their son Henry was the first of a long line of kings who ruled England for three hundred and fifty years. Rut not with" out a struggle did Henry the First's grandson, Henry the Second, ascend the throne. The Conqueror had a daughter Adela and her son Stephen, a man remarkably handsome, with talents and much charm of manner, had the support of many of the Normans, and most of the Saxons favoured him, Henry was young; the Empress Matilda, or Maud, made herself disliked by her want of pleasant ways, and you can understand the next rhyme. Stephen. 1135-115"Stephen of Rlois next seized the throne. Which with address he made his own; Through Henry ordered by his will His daughter Maud the throne should 4. fill. The Empress Maud some battles won Contending for her youthful son. Till 'twas decreed to end the strife, Stephen should wear the crown for life. And ninteen years he wisely reigned, When Maud's young son the empire gained. And then appeared one of the great est of England's kings Henry II. 1154-118- 9. The second Henry now appears, A king for live and thirty years Reforms the state curbs monkish prido While Recket for resistance died, Who would the kingly power pull down. Adds Ireland to the English crown, Rut grief assailed king Henry mind. When Rosamond her life resigned, And. rebel sons perform their part To break this monarch royal heart, This is t he story of Fair Rosamond. T W CwfcthiUtfd. |