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A. F Pledzer Holly Heights Chapel
Georgia Cavalcade
Macon Repulsed Federals Twice During
The War Between The States; Did Not
Not Give Up Until After General Lee’s
Surrender.
By GUS BERND, Historical Assistant,
Office of Secretary of State
When the tired men of the Gray and the Blue
were grappling before Atlanta during the hot mid
summer days of 1864, Macon turned back an attack
that was made upon the town by Union raiders
from arross the Ocmulgee. After Atlanta was im
periled that summer, an attack on Macon was ex
pected. Macon’s fortifications were consequently
given earnest attention. By July 28th, when Atlanta
was in its death-struggle with Shermran, the attack
upon Macon was awaited momentarily as evidenced
by an order of Colonel George A. Smith of that
date, and which appeared in the Macon Daily Tele
graph of July 29th:
“Every member of the First Confederate Georgia
Regiment able to shoulder his musket, is ordered
and earnestly requested to join their command at
once, and aid their comrades in repelling the
enemy.”
At the same time the sheriff advertised for “one
fifth of the abled bodied negro men of the county
to work on the fortifications around Macon.” Gov
ernor Joseph E. Brown had set up headuqarters in
the @E d issued a proclamation: “To_the Citi
zens of ” on the 30th: e
] -enemy is now ir. sight of your houses. We
h&@. 1 appeal to every man, citizen or refugee,
who has a gun of any kind, or can get one, to report
at the courthouse, with the least possible delay,
that you may be thrown into companies and aid in
‘the defense of the city. A prompt response is ex
pected from every patriot.”
On , July 20th, scouts had warned of the
Wm’ a large detachment of Federal cavalry,
One line of defense of Macon was drawn up be
tween East Macon and Walnut Creek, another along
Clinton Road. Other units were posted to the west
in areas now included in North Highlands, Vine
ville and Ingleside. The aggregation of defenders
included many types: city militia, civilians, and
regular soldiers. A significant feature of the situa
tion is the fact that some skillful reinforcements
arrived at the right time. About 600 Tennessee
troops were passing through Macon and joined in
the defense as did about 1,000 state militia headed
north from Andersonville.
Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Howell Cobb
were in Macon; and General Cobb directed the
operations of defense. The attack came on the
morning of Saturday, July 30, 1864, from approxi
mately 2,500 cavalry under General George Stone
man; and this engagement is known as the First
Battle of Dunlap Hill. Balls and shells fell in the
eastéern portion of Macon. Some property was hit;
but no non-combatants were injured. The Asa Holt
House on Mulberry street between Spring and New
was struck and damaged. After advancing upon
Macon as close as the Dunlap Farm, located on
grounds now within Oemulgee National Monument,
the forces under Stoneman retreated.
The Telegraph’s account of the battle had the
following significant remarks:
“All convalescent and detailed soldiers were out
and acted with the usual valor of veterans. Among
the defenders of Macon we noticed several conr
panies composed principally of officers in the Con
federate army, from colonels to lieutenanis, who
had thrown aside their stars and bars and shoul
dered muskets. To particularize any man or body
of men, where all behaved with the most gratifying
spirit of determination and bravery, would be in
justice to all. We feel proud of the manner in which
the citizens of Macon emulated the heroic example
of Petersburg and Richmond and can safely prom
ise that all raids on this city in the future will be
met in the same manner as this first has been.”
The Federals occupied the Dunlap Farm just east
of Macon in present East Macon; placed cannon
there and shelled Macon. An entrenchment was
made across the premises. The Confederates were
forced to shell the place in order to repulse the
Yankees. The Telegraph says the Yankees carried
away all of Mrs. Dunlap’s negroes. They burned
the bridge over Walnut Creek as they departed via
the Gordon-Irwinton road and returned to Clinton.
Confederate casualties for this engagement was
given as about 60 with 16 of these killed in action.
The fighting along Macon's line of defense lasted
most of the day before the Federals finally gave up
the attack.
General Alfred Iverson with a small Confederate
force consisting of part of Wheeler’s Cavalry then
delivered the coup de grace to Stoneman’s raid by
surprising him at Clinton on August Ist. General
Stoneman and several hundred Federals were cap
tured and brought into Macon as prisoners.
General Johnston thought that the Federal attack
had been aimed at the valuable munitions shops
operated in Macon. It is likely that this is a par
tially correct interpretation. The Federals also had
other Middle Georgia objectives,
_Sherman in Volume II of his “Memoirs” com
on Stoneman’s failure:
s Stoneman had not obeyed his orders to attack
(Continued in Column Four.)
Jaycees Present Award To
Police Department
There is no question about progress having been
made in our Police Department during the last
three years and the award presented Chief of
Police Clarence Roberts by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce the other night was fitting.
The present City Administration is responsible
for the Police Department having been given new
and up-to-date headquarters and better equip
ment, which within itself was conducive to im
provement in the morale and zeal of members of
the Department. In addition to that this City Ad
ministration added several policemen to the staff
and sponsored creation of a traffic division,
Chief Roberts, the Civil Service Commission,
members of the Police Department, as well as the
Mayor and Council. who have cooperated to pro
duce improvement in the Department’s efficiency
are worthy of commendation.
There is one phase of the Department’s work
which, we believe, can bear improvement. We have
repeatedly urged that a better patrol system be-op
erated in the residential section to prevent speed
ing. To our mind reckless drivers, drunken drivers
and speeders constitute a menace that can be ap
preciably reduced Wy proper and adequate traffic
patrol in the residential section.
It is up to Chief Roberts and Traffic Captain
Porterfield, of course, to develop the ways and
means to establish better traffic patrol in the resi
dential section. We are not prepared to tell them
how it should be done, But that service is impera
tively needed. It is a service our residents deserve
and should have just as much as traffic control
downtown. In faet, it is far more important that
traffic policemen be engaged in protection of life in
the residential sectigxs than in handing out parking
tickets downtpvin, it we do not have enough police
men 1w do both.
No one should begrudge the Police Department
the commendation it has received. No one, how
ever, should refrain from pointing 6ut the need for
better police traffic patrol in the residential sec
tions in view of the need for it. The Banner-Herald
has had a part in improvement of the Police De
partment because we have given our suppert to an
increase in personnel, the installation of a radio
system and to other improvements. We have gladly
given publicity to the good work of the Depart
ment and when we repeatedly urge better traffic
control in our residential sections we do so in the
same spirit that has actuated us when we have
publicized the success of the Department.
Warren As Compromise
The contest shaping-up between backers of Gen
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Robert A.
Taft for the Republican presidential nomination has
started a new line of political speculation in Wash
ington. These two men are so opposed on foreign
policy ideas that it would be practically impossible
to ge them to agree on a platfornr
If anything like a close contest or a deadlock de
velops, GOP bosses are almost sure to start looking
for an acceptable compromise candidate, With Gov
ernor Dewey ruling himself out and Governor
Stassen having failed to show any strength in
1948, the likeliest possibility would be some can
didate against whom nobody had anything, In this
process of elimination; the name of Governor War
ren of California is attracting considerable atten
tion, it is said.
The story that Rep. Hugh D. Scott of Pennsylva
nia was going to Paris to sound out General Eisen
hower on his presidential ambitions was a little
premature, Representative Scott was of course Re
publican campaign manager for Governor Dewey
in 1948, and Dewey is now an Eisenhower backer.
But when Representative Scott left Washington for
Europe last week, he did not even have an appoint
ment to see General Eisenhower.
Tennessee Politics
Oldest W. S. Senator Kenneth McKellar's latest
blast at the Atonric Energy Commission is regarded
as nothing more than Tennessee politics. Young
Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore has announ
ced that he will run for McKellar's place on the
Democratic ticket in next year’s primary.
Representative Gore beat Senator McKellar to an
issue by coming out for increased rents for the land
lords at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Oak
Ridge, Tenn., development. To top this one, Senator
McKellar charged that AEC was running a Com
munist community.
Senator McKellar carried on a constant feud
with David Lilienthal, when he was chairman of
AEC, and before, when he was chairnran of TVA.
So now the senator is keeping his record clear by
feudin’ with AEC Chairman Gordon Dean.
A few years ago, the charge was that AEC ran a
fascist dictatorship at Oak Ridge. Now it is charged
with being a Communist conspiracy. Actually, AEC
wants to get rid of responsibility for managing Oak
Ridge town so it can concentrate more on bombs.
We are not mere sponges or plankton afloat on a
tide. We are rational beings, capable of charting
the tide and navigating it, and even diverting and
directing it. There is no dialectical or technological
substitute for the creative individual.—A. Whitney
Griswold, president, Yale University,
It's simply a matter of killing‘him (the enemy)
because he is trying to kill you and killing him
because he has killed your buddy.—Colonel John
C. Meyer, top living U. S. air ace, on airfighting,
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the railroad first before going to
Macon and Andersonville, but had
crossed the Ocmulgee River high
up near Covington, and had gone
down that river on the east bank.
He reached Clinton, and sent out
detachments which struck the
railroad leading from Macon to
Savannah at Griswold Station,
where they found and destroyed
seventeen locomotives and over a
hundred cars, then went on and
burned the bridge across the
Oconee, and reunited the division
before Macon, Stoneman shelled
the town across the river, but
could not cross over by the bridge,
and MEM to Clinton, where he
found retreat obstructed, as
he supposed, by a superior force.
There he became bewildered, and
sacrificed himself for the safety of
his command ..."”
On November 20, 1864, during
Shernvan’s March to the Sea, a
force of about 3,000 Federals un
der General Kilpatrick made an
other dash for Macon via the
Dunlap Farm and were met and
repulsed. This is known as the
Second Battle of Dunlap Hill.
Macon thus held out throughout
the war and finally surrendered to
General James H. Wilson in late
April of 1865 after Lee had been
forced to give up in Virginia.
In The
Service
GREAT LAKES, 111. — Gordon
Garrett, seaman apprentice, USN,
Route 3, Jefferson, Ga,, is serving
aboard the destroyer USS Haw
kins.
Garrett entered the Naval serv
ice Nov. 6, 1942,
The Hawkins, attached to the
Atlantic Fleet destroyer force, is
one of over 350 ships of its type
in the U, S. Navy. -Active in the
Pacific area during World War 11,
the ship is affectionately called
“Sadie Hawkins” by her crew, the
name stemming from the comic
strip character created by Al
Capp.
GREAT LAKES, Il — Boat
swain Verner E. Bullington, jr.,
USN, husband of Mrs. Martha L.
Bullington of Madison, Ga., re-
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New York and East—
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East—
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Mixed Trains,
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Irain No, 51 Arrives 900 a. m
rain No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m.
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cently reported for duty at the U.
S. Naval Air Technical Training
Center, Jacksonville, Fla.
Boatswain Bullingtcn entered
the Naval service December 16,
1935.
B ‘ore entering the service he
attended Madison High School.
GREAT LAKES, Ill.—Ens. Wal
ter C. Pri¢e, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. O. Price of 475 University
drive, Athens, Ga., has recently
completed the four-week watch
officer’s course in operational ra
dar at the Combat Information
Team Training Center, Boston,
Mass.
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