Granny's Letters:
Boydtown was our next town we got on the wrong road there but did not go far, turned around and found the highway, stopped at South Hill and got gas for 33¢, had 57 miles to Petersburg, made that and it was time to camp, kept looking for a camp and got to a suburb of Richmond and asked a storekeeper and he let us camp in his back yard, he was a Pennsylvania man, W. S. Wenner. We spent the evening with them and had a fine time. February 28th---Had our breakfast, got such good food from the store. Discovered that the hose on the radiator was leaking so had to fix that. It is warmer this morning. I am writing while Frank repairs. I will send this the first place I have a chance and I expect this is the last you will get. We will try to reach Washington today, we will spend the evening with Wilson. When we turn west from Washington then we will be getting towards home and the story will soon be done. We are well and Dad is almost ready to start. Mom Still February 28th---Did not get started until 11 o'clock. Richmond is a very crooked town, up hill and down. We were some time getting through then we got on the wrong road that took us 7 miles out of our way, after we got straight we made good time the roads were good. We came through Spotsylvania, an old battle ground and Fredericksburg. We stopped and went in the National Cemetery, it is on top of a hill, has terraces cut all around and graves on them, it covers 12 acres. The bodies are those that were picked up from the battle fields around. They had found 3 within the last 7 years. Fredericksburg is an old place, has quite a good bit of manufacturing. We crossed a bridge there the toll was 8¢, it is not a large town. We drove about 126 miles up hill and down. We came a past the government reservation where they keep their prisoners, camped at Larton Virginia, back of the store, there was just a few houses. We did not unpack anything, it sprinkled a few drops but did not rain we were glad. I went to bed. Frank went in the store and talked a while the people were Ohio people. From Cleveland. March 1st---Got up and started early drove out to Mt. Vernon got there at 8 o'clock they don't open until 10 so we did not see much. We did not wait. We are now at Alexandria. Frank is hunting some rye bread, we are 9 miles from Washington. We saw crape on 3 doors when we came in this town, it is I suppose, some larger than Greenville. Got our bread and some cheese, ate our lunch at the edge of town about 9 o'clock, got in Washington tried to look around but was such a jam we were glad to get out of town. We was at the monument and drove past the White House, saw hosts of other buildings that we did not know what they were, got out of town about 1 o'clock, had to stop several times got within 6 miles of Hagerstown Md. Camped at a farm house, made something over 100 miles. While at Washington we visited the Arlington cemetery, they were digging graves for the soldiers from France they told us that for awhile there was ?? bodies buried a day, now it is something like 80 a week, there is something like 410 acres in the cemetery. We drove around some but we did not see it all. I got a spray of fern off of the grave of Jessner Johnson. They have wooden slabs at the new graves.