The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce
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of the greatest soldier of the Civil War.
* * * Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I will protect it now. _George P. Morris._ * * * =One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Street to Yonkers.= This upper landing of the Hudson River Day Line has a beautiful location and is a great convenience to the dwellers of northern Manhattan. On leaving the pier the steel-arched structure of Riverside Drive is seen on the right. The valley here spanned, in the neighborhood of 127th Street, was once known as "Marritje Davids' Fly," and the local name for this part of New York above Claremont Heights is still known as "Manhattanville." The Convent of the Sacred Heart is visible among the trees, and =Trinity Cemetery's Monuments= soon gleam along the wooded bank. Among her distinguished dead is the grave of General John A. Dix whose words rang across the land sixty days before the attack on Fort Sumter: "If any man attempts to pull down the American flag shoot him on the spot." The John A. Dix Post of New York comes hither each Decoration Day and garlands with imposing ceremonies his grave and the graves of |
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