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Vol. 11.
Kennesaw Mountain.
Grand Kennesaw Mountain, famed
in history and in song! The pride of
Georgia’s days of peace, the glory of
Georgia’s battle-days! The admira
tion of the tourist, the delight of the
pleasure lover! Around its lofty sum
mit have drifted the storm-clouds, or
clustered those whose roseate hue re
flect the smile of peaceful beauty.
On this page we show a picture of
this monarch of the hills, which occurs
in the “Marietta folder” of the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad; and which is
the finest likeness of it which has ever
been put upon paper. The view is
taken from the southeast.
But two miles from Marietta, the
charming “Gem City of Georgia,” or
“Little Paris,” which has a national
fame as a summer resort for people in
the south; with the beautiful little
village of Elizabeth, nestling at its feet,
where there is the largest marble fac
tory in America ; with a view from its
summit of Pine Mountain, upon which
the Bishop-General Polk was killed;
of .Lost Mountain, which, it is said,
wandered away from all other moun
tains and got lost; of the famous Alla
toona Mountains, around which clus
ters the halo of sacred song; and with
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THE “ KENNESZk’W I^EOTJNT-A-IN ” NUMBER.
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ATLANTA, CA., JUNE 15, 1887.
[LITTLE KENNESAW.]
royal Atlanta, the “Gate City of the
South,” showing its church spires and
its factory chimneys on the southeast,
it will forever remain the centre of an
interest which nothing else can sur
pass.
Gen. Pat Cleburne.
We invite the especial attention of
our readers to the magnificent article
on General P. R. Cleburne, which
was written by Judge L. H. Mangum,
of Arkansas, who now holds an im
portant position in the Treasury De
partment, Washington, D. C. Judge
Mangum was General Cleburne s law
partner before the war, and was on
his staff during the war. Few, prob
ably none, had such opportunities for
judging him from an intimate acquain
tance, as our writer.
Without any attempt at flattery, we
will state that we consider the article
one of the finest pieces of literature
which has come under our eyes in
many a day. His descriptions, or word
pictures, are as clear to the mind as a
photograph is to the eye; the power of
pathos displayed is something which
we have never seen excelled; and
through it all there runs such a percep
tible vein of sincerity that none can
KENNESAW MOUNTAIN.
doubt the truth of the words which
have been written.
For the accommodation of those of
our readers who may desire to insert
it in their scrap-books, etc., we have
placed it on the second, third and
sixth pages.
Cleburne’s Division Flag.
In the “Pat Cleburne” number of
the Kennesaw Gazette, which was
published May 15, there was the state
ment, in Colonel Avery’s beautiful ar
ticle, to the effect that Cleburne’s di
vision never used the Confederate red
cross battle flag; but by special consent
retained its original colors, which were
a blue field with a white moon in the
centre.
We were talking a few days ago with
a gentleman who was in Lowrey’s
brigade of Cleburne’s division, and he
remarked that the division tock great
pride in the factthatthey were allowed
to retain the flag as the division col
ors. He says that when the surrender
came, he took the colors from the staff,
and concealed them on his person, in
tending to carry them home, and hold
them as a precious heirloom of the mem
orable times that had tried his and his
comrades’ souls; but, when crossing
[GKEAT KENNESAW.]
•Bulwer.
the Savannah River at Augusta, un
fortunately for him the Federal guard
at that point insisted on searching him
to see whether he had anything dan
gerous about him. They discovered
the treasured bit of bunting, and took
it from him.
It is not known what ever became of
the historic relic; but we very much
hope that it will turn up, and be re
stored to some organization in the
South which will keep it for the inspec
tion of the public in the days and years
to come in the distant future.
Therefore, Travel Via the W.
& A.
The only through sleeping car line from
Jacksonville to Cincinnati, via Atlanta,
runs over the Savannah, Florida A
Western Railway, the Brunswick &
Western Railroad, the Central Rail
road of Georgia, the IFcstern A Allan,'
tic Railroad and the Cincinnati South
ern Railway, going via Waycross, Ty,
Ty, Albany, Macon, Atlanta,Marietta,
Allatoona, Dalton, Boyce, Junction
City and Lexington, Ky. All con
nections made in Union Depots.
Spend the summer nt Cat »<->sa Springs,
Ga., in the bea i'i ul Chi *k ini inga
Valley, “the gem of (he South.”
NO. 12.