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Among Our Exchanges.
Erie Morning Dispatch.
The handsomest advertising trick ev
er put out by a railroad company, prob
ably, is the St. Valentine souvenir of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad of
Georgia —a poem in autograph entitled
“Planting the Gunson Kennesaw.” It
is really a magnificent specimen ot ty
pographic art, printed on the finest of
stationery.
Harlan (Iowa) Tribune.
To Joseph M. Brown, ot the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, we are in
debted for a valentine of more than
ordinary interest and beauty. It con
sists of a handsome pamphlet reciting
in poetry the battle of Kennesaw
Mountain, and the scenes engraved are
representations of some of the most
exciting events in that memorable bat
tle.
Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee, M is.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad.
“The Great Kennesaw Route.” has is
sued an elegant valentine. ‘•Planting
the Guns on Kennesaw.” a song found
ed on an incident in the fighting
around Marietta, Ga., in June, 1864,
The valentine is enclosed between cov
ers of old-style uncalendered paper,
and the song is reproduced in the au
thor’s script. A fine picture of Ken
esaw Mountain is also given.
Herald and Journal, Greensboro, Ga.
The neatest valentine we have ever
seen, comes to us from Mr. Joseph M.
Brown, and bears the signet of the
Western & Atlantic railroad. It is a
handsomely illustrated poem celebrat
ing the planting of the Confederate
guns “above the dizzy heights” of lit
tle Kennesaw mountain during the
struggle between Johnston and Sher
man in ’64. It is on fine paper, ele
gantly printed, in a handsome card
board cover, and is a beautiful souve
nir of the war. It is but another evi
dence of the enterprise and excellent
taste of Mr. Brown.
Sibley County Independent, Henderson,
Minnesota.
We are in receipt of a copy of the
Battle Fields Folder of the Western <fc
Atlantic Railroad. It contains a great
amount of interesting and instructive
reading on the war in some of the
Southern States, with accounts of many
of the battles, including maps.
The News, Nashville, Mich.
We are under obligations to Joseph
M. Brown, Gen. Pass. Agt. of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, Atlanta,
Ga., for the finest and most interesting
collection of railroad printing we have
ever seen. The W. &A. traverses a
section that has become historic from
the great military duel that was there
contested, for over one hundred days,
between two of the greatest generals
this country has ever produced. Next
week we expect to be upon this histor
ic ground and shall embrace in a letter
to the News, information that will be
of an interesting character.
Jasper (Ind) Times.
We are in receipt of a copy of the
Western & Atlantic R. R. Co’s history
of that portion of the war of the late
rebellion, which was enacted in Ten
nessee and Georgia. It has a graphic
account of the battles of Lookout Moun
tain, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga,
Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Peavine Creek,
Resaca, Cassville, Kingston, Allatoo
na, Kennesaw Mountain, and every
action or skirmish between Federal and
Confederate forces, worthy of mention,
in Tenn, and Georgia. Every Union
soldier should have one of these books.
Allegheny Valley Times, Tarentum, Pa.
BATTLE-FIELDS FOLDER OF THE WEST-
ERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
The above is the title of a publica
tion recently issued by the Western &
Atlantic Railroad Company, and is a
neat, tasty and attractive pamphlet,
containing about 50 pages of highly en
tertaining and graphical sketches and
incidents of our civil war, along the
route, and in the vicinity, of the above
R. R., between Atlanta, Ga., and
Chattanooga, Tenn., illustrated by nu
merous elegant maps and faithful
views of the region traversed by the
R. R., points of interest on the road,
and of the numerous battlefields
throughout.
From the very favorable descriptions
by Judge Kelley and others of the sec
tion of country in which the railroad is
located, we learn that it is exceedingly
picturesque, abounding in scenes of im
posing grandeur, blended with those of
enchanting loveliness; that the climate
is charm in dßind salubrious ; that the
people are kind and hospitable; and
that the entire region is one of bound
less resources, in which human enter
prise may find its widest range.
The Item, Glen Rock, Pa.
We have received from the Western
& Atlantic Railroad Company, a neat
little fifty-page folder, giving maps,
views, statistics, etc., of the great bat
tle-fields and historic scenes, along the
Great Kennesaw Route. The reading
matterand illustrations are full of in
terest. This little book, full of valua
ble historical information, will be sent
to any one sending his name and ad
dress and a one-cent postage stamp.
Delaware County Advocate, Chester, Pa.
The General Passenger Agent of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany, at Atlanta, Ga., has issued an at
tractive little book, descriptive of the
beauties of their line, the “Great Ken
nesaw Route.” It is a pocket history
of Sherman’s battles and his march
through Georgia, and is nicely printed
on good paper, full of taking pictures,
and a pamphlet that any on 3 of Sher
man’s “bummers,” or indeed anyofthe
blue or gray who “fit and bled” in the
stirring times of’63 would appreciate.
The Clayton (Mo.) Democrat.
A very neat pamphlet, illustrative
and descriptive of the battlefields and
historic scenes along the Western & At
lantic Railroad —which runs between
Chattanooga and Atlanta —has been
received. It is a new departure in the
way of railroad printing, and will be
valuable to any one who possess a
copy, for its pictures and descriptions
of the battles along the Great Kenne
saw Route.
Lisbon (Iowa) Sun.
THE MOUNTAIN CAMPAIGNS IN GEORGIA
A few days since we received a neat
pamphlet, bearing the above title, from
Prof. William, of Cornell College.
This little book was written by Jos.
M. Brown, and depicts the “War
Scenes on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad of Georgia.” 'there are two
routes which must ever be famous in
the annals of our Civil War, the one
from the Rapidan to Petersburg, under
Grant and Meade, the other from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta, under Gen. Sher
man. The latter, while interesting to
old soldiers, must be especially so to
those who belonged to the armies of
the Cumberland aud the Tennessee.
The hook opens with an account of
Rosecrans’ campaigh against Bragg, in
September, 1863. We have a thrill
ing account of the battle of Chicka-
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
mauga with its far reaching result—
the stubborn defense of Ihomas, and
the final retreat of the army to Chat
tanooga. Then comes the campaign
of Gen. Grant about Chattanooga, in
November, 1863, and the routof Bragg’s
army. During the winter of ’64 com
parative quiet reigned in both armies.
On both sides, preparations were mak
ing for the final and most desperate
struggle, which all felt would be made
with the opening of the spring of 1864.
In the first week in May, simultaneous
ly with Grant’s movements in the east,
Sherman, who now led the armies of
the west, opened the Atlanta campaign.
From Tunnel Hill to Atlanta the scene
of conflict was along the single line of
railroad —the Western & Atlantic.
Near this line, all the battlefields of
this campaign may be found. They
can be visited with ease. Many of
them can be seen from the railroad.
Such is not the case with Grant’s fa
mous campaign of 1864, with the army
of the Potomac. To follow the track
of that army, from the Rapidan to Pe
tersburg, leads one among the forests,
swamps and rivers of one of the most
desolate portions of Virginia. Noth
ing but a private vehicle will suffice to
take a man over these historic fields —
the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North,
Anu, Totopottomoy, Cold Harbor, etc.
But the Western & Atlantic Kailroad
of Georgia will take any of Sherman’s
old boys over the Atlanta Campaign
grounds with ease and at reasonable
cost Many have availed themselves
of the opportunities thus afforded them
to visit, at least once, again in their
lives, the scenes of those deadly con
flicts. The old soldier can never for
get his army life, neither can the bat
tle scenes be effaced from his mind.
We have often wondered why more of
them do not visit the battlefields again,
and especially these western men who
have such splendid opportunities to
fight their battles over again on rhe
very ground where once they stood be
tween their “loved country and war’s
wide desolation.”
How He Mixed the Corpses.
“Well, sir,” said one of the baggage
masters of the Western & Atlantic
Kailroad, “I have been running on the
road for many years, and have scarcely
ever had any trouble about the loss or
mis-sending of baggage; but one night
I made the worst mix up of three corps
es that you ever heard of in your life.
I sent every one of them to the wrong
place. I started out from Atlanta with
one to go to Dalton, and thence up
the E. T., V. & G. R. R., and anoth
er to go to Boyce and up the Cincin
nati Southern railroad, and another to
go to Chattanooga and thence on be
yond Nashville.
I got to Dalton and started the Nash
ville one up the East Tennessee road,
then I got to Boyce and sent the Knox
ville one up toward Cincinnati, and
when 1 got to Chattinnga the man
who was or the train with his wife go
ing to have that one huriel came to
see it transferred to the N A C. tra ; n.
fie found out that it wn not t ie right
corpse, and I neve, saw a man so ex
cited in my life. He got i.old of his
hair, right this way,” -said the baggage
master, twirling his top knot with one
hand and his beard with the other,
“and began to jump right up an 1
down in frantic excitement. Said he,
‘my wife will go crazy.’
“I stepped over to him, caught him
and pulled him right down inloachair,
and said,‘Now you just keep quiet and
not say* anything to your wife about it,
and I will straighten this ouL’-
“I then went over to the Western
Union telegraph office, and, as J had
done the fellows there a good many
courtesies during the several years I
had been running, the Manager told
me that the wires were open to me to
telegraph wherever it was necessary to,
in order to straighten matters out.
“I wired up to Cleveland, caught
the corpse, and had it put on the train
which was just about passing there for
Chattanooga. I also wired to a sta
tion on the Cincinnati Southern, where
they could intercept that one, caught
it, and had it brought out on the train
the next morning, and by the time the
morning trains were ready to leave
Chattanooga everything was straight;
but I tell you, while it was serious at
the time, yet I shall always appreciate
how funny to me now is the remem
brance of how the old fellow jumped
around, in Chattanooga, when he found
that he had gotten the wrong corpse
to carry up to Nashville to bury. I
suppose the same sort of scenes were
enacted when my telegrams caught
the other two.”
A New Station.
Quite a time ago a train-hand on the
Western & Atlantic railroad, one of
those hardy sons of toil who are always
in demand, became inadvertently the
source of much amusement to quite a
number of train men as well as passen
gers.
The Western & Atlantic passenger
train was approaching Tunnel Hill,
and Bob stepped out of the baggage
car to go into the others to call the
name of the station. He passed through
the smoking car, and was on the plat
form of the ladies’ car, and had just
opened the door, when, looking down,
he saw a couple of hogs which seemed
to be in too close proximity to the train,
and, apparently, from the rapidity
with which it was running, thought
that one of them or both of them would
be struck by the lower steps of the car,
and just as he opened the door to call
out the name of the station, the dan
ger of the hogs was so vividly impress
ed on his mind that instead of calling
the name, “Tunnel Hill,” he yelled at
the top of his voice, —“S-0-0 —E-H !”
Some of the passengers involuntarily
looked at their guide-books to see
whether he had called the name of the
station correctly.
Bob did not hear the last of this for
quite a time.
From the Railroad Record.
The value of advertising is shown in
a number of wavs. The Western &
Atlantic Railroad company have seen
this, and are profiting by it. For in
stance, their Battle-fields folder was
sent to a large number of newspapers
which gave complimentary notices of
it, and as the diiect result of these no
tices handle is of letters were written
to the passenger department of the
company asking for the folder. These
letters came from the New England,
ir.mi the Middle and Western States,
and as far as ii‘o;n Colorado. On one
day, for instance, 115 letters were re
ceived by the Western & Atlantic pas
senger department asking for these fold
ers; the next day there were 86 re
ceived, and during the week the ag
gregate num here I over 600.
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you get to Fannin county,
the healthiest county in Georgia, if
not in America,