Crowds and organizations.
Long before noon the village was thronged.
Crowds came by every road.
Each valley, each sequestered glen,
Mustered its little horde of men,
and sent them to do honor to the fallen braves.
Lee Camp, of
Alexandria, under
Commander William A. Smoot, came up
via Virginia Midland railroad and were accompanied by
R. E. Lee Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, recently organized.
Numbers of members of the
Clinton Hatcher Camp, of
Loudoun, came
via the
Washington and
Ohio, and these organizations were accompanied by large numbers of unattached citizens and many ladies.
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Washington,
Baltimore,
Alexandria,
Leesburg,
Warrenton, and all the counties of this section sent some representatives for the occassion.
The visitors were met at the stations by committees, who brought them to the village in vehicles and entertained them handsomely.
