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Psalm I.
1. The happiness of the godly. 4. The
unhappiness of the ungodly.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful.
2. But his delight is in the law of
the Lord ; and in his law doth he med
itate day and night.
3. And he shall be like a tree plant
ed by the fivers of water, that bring
eth forth his fruit in his season; his
leaf also shall not wither ; and what
soever he doeth shall prosper.
4. The ungodly are not so ; but are
like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.
5. Therefore the ungodly shall not
stand in the judgment, nor sinners in
the congregation of the righteous.
6. For the Lord knoweth the way
of the righteous; but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.
About the Battle of Allatoona.
AN EXPLANATION ASKED FOR.
A gentleman who had been in the
Federal army said, in reference to the
excursion during last September, of
veterans to the battle-fields along the
line of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, and to the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette's statement that the battle of
Allatoona was perhaps the most dra
matic incident of the war:
“I have never understood the rea
sons for the plan of attack which the
Confederates had at the battle of Alla
toona, and in fact, one or two features
connected with the fight and the end
of it.
For instance, it has always seemed
to me that if General French intended
to take all the chances for making it
a success he would have torn up the
railroad north of Allatoona and thus
prevented any re-enforcements coming
down from above. Os course, the road
having been torn up between Big Shan
ty and Acworth there could be no
trains brought from below.
“Then, it has seemed strange to me
that they did not destroy the houses
filled with army supplies. There
were in those houses bread rations for
Sherman’s entire army for nearly a
month, and if those had been destroy
ed it would have been a terrible ca
lamity to the Federal army,
“Then again, why should General
French have assaulted the redoubts if
they had been re-enforced to such an
extent that the garrison, it seems, was
nearly as large as his attacking force.
The defiant answer which Corse return
ed to the summons to surrender show
ed French that he was there, and it ap
pears to me should have made him
rather cautious about bringing on an
attack without investigating a little
further.
“Finally, when the attack was proven
to be a failure, why was it that he con
sidered it necessary to retire over the
same road he came; in other words, to
march back, via Allatoona Creek, al
most to Acworth, on his way to New
Hope church to join Gen. Hood, when,
by taking the Cartersville road which
led westward from Allatoona, he could
have gone off by the road which fork
ed from it and ran south of the river,
and have come out byway of Burnt
Hickory and joined Gen. Hood. Even
though his orders from Gen. Hood
were to return via the Acworth road,
yet, he would have been justified by
sound military principles in taking
another route so as to insure the safety
of his command; whereas, he was in
great danger of meeting the Federal
relief column which was coming up
from the vicinity of Kennesaw Moun
tain and from last advices had passed
Big Shanty at 8 a. m.
“I have never talked with any of
the Confederate commanders who have
exactly explained to my satisfaction
why such measures were not adopted
as it seems to me should have been in
these matters. The attack was cer
tainly a very plucky one, in fact re
markably so; but the defense was
equally as game in every respect, and
Corse’s dispatch to Sherman, “I am
short a cheek bone and an ear; but am
able to whip all h—l yet,” was a pretty
good specimen of the way his command
felt from the beginning of the fight to
its end.”
We do not know exactly the reasons
which governed Gen. French in refer
ence to the points raised above; but
from the best records we can obtain we
observe that Gen. French’s men claim
that they did not know the way the
wagon roads ran any better than the
Federals did; and that their guide led
them to believe that it was necessary
for them to return half way to Acworth
in order to take the road to New Hope
church.
General French’s command, as we
understand it, was composed of troops
from distant states, and, therefore, we
presume that the Confederate claims in
regard to their ignorance of the course
of the wagon roads, etc., were correct.
We shall be glad, however, if some
one would explain to us the reasons for
the Confederate movements as indica
ted above. What the Kennesaw Ga
zette desires is the exact truth of his
tory concerning the army operations
along the line of the Western & Atlan
tic Railroad, equally with its desire to
demonstrate to the people of the pres
ent day that the country along the
line of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road is the best in the South for immi
grants and capitalists to come to.
Speaking of immigration a few days
ago, a gentleman said to us: “If the
railroads and the state were to join
each other in properly directed efforts
to induce immigration into the state,
they would be astonished at their suc
cess. The railroads of the west are the
greatest factors in filling up the states
through which they run. The rail
roads of the south could, to a great ex
tent, imitate their example successful
ly ; but, excepting the Western & At
lantic, none of them seem to be mak
ing much endeavor in that direction.
The Western & Atlantic is the only
road, to my knowledge, whose publi
cations seem to have this object in
view. The rest all expend their time,
their energy and their money in en
deavoring to capture the through tour
ist travel; whereas, the Western &
Atlantic has published the resources of
the section through which it runs, and
in a general manner is doing more to
day to induce immigration into Geor
gia than any other organization.”
If you want to be sure of having a
good and safe ride in luxurious cars on
through schedules, the Western & At
lantic is the road you are hunting for.
It fills all the requirements, and the
way its passenger business has increas
ed, shows that the public have found
this out.
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