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The Kennesaw Gazette,
PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND 15th OF
EACH MONTH.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
REACHED BY
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION: S1 a year ; six months, 50 cts.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw
Gazette, which publishes a very large edi
tion twice a month, and it is safe to say
that it is read by more people than any
other paper in the South. Great numbers
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and at
other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
®lje Benncsnro ®a;ette,
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 15, 1887.
Summer Resorts.
On page 7 will be found a list of
summer resorts, on or near the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad, where all
tastes can be gratified, and fitted to
any purse.
In addition to the good society, ex
cellent fare and attention, parties vis
iting these resorts will enjoy the most
healthful climate, the purest water
and finest scenery in the country.
They will be in localities that were
scenes of the most thrilling interest
during the mountain campaigns in
Georgia and Tennessee.
Monteagle Springs.
All who desire to go to Monteagle
Springs should see that their tickets
read via Western & Atlantic Railroad.
It is the only line from Atlanta which
runs parlor chair cars through from
Atlanta to Cowan without change,
connecting with trains which reach
Monteagle before dark.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
is the, only line by which passengers
coming from the west or north-west
make connection in the Union Passen
ger Depot, Atlanta. It is also an im
portant matter for those coming to
Atlanta to bear in mind that all the
street car lines in the city start from
within one square of the Union Pas
senger Depot, and passengers reaching
Atlanta from the west by any other
line are landed more than four squares
from the line of the nearest street car.
The luxm iousporZw chair cars which
leave the Union Depot, Atlanta, on
the 7:50 morning train, via the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad, arriving at
Nashville, via the N. C. & St. L., at
7:00 p. m., and which leave Nashville
at 7:30 a. m., and reach Atlanta, via
W. & A Railroad at 6:35 p. m., are
magnificent cars and afford the best ser
vice of the kind in the south.
Chivalry in Battle.
In another column is an article
about the Hag of Cleburne’s division,
and its fate so far as is last known.
Our informant of that incident also
talked with us relative to the occur
rence of the flames around the Fed
eral wounded in the battle of Kenne
saw Mountain, June 27, 1864.
He says that this was partly in front
of Cheatham’s lines and partly also in
front of Cleburne’s lines. The brush
which had been piled in front of the
Confederate entrenchments as abatis
and entanglement had become dry —
the leaves completely so —and caught
fire from the thousands of pieces of
gun-wadding which were flying from
the Confederate muskets. The wind
was blowing slightly westward, and,
therefore, carried the flames directly
in the direction of the Federal wound
ed. Their assaulting columns had
reached the abatis — some of their dead,
in fact, having been shot down almost
at the very trenches —consequently
their fallen bodies were immediately
in the midst of the fire.
He stated to us that the appealing
calls for help, and the cries of agony
which arose from the wounded Fed
erals were the most horrible sounds
that his ears had ever listened to. The
Confederates, not merely by orders
from their officers, but also by every
man’s own desire, stopped firing; and
there were loud calls to the Federal
columns to do likewise, and come for
ward and remove their 'wounded who
were being burnt up. They were also
notified that the Confederates would
not fire a shot until this was done.
Sherman’s men rushed forward to
rescue their comrades, and some of the
Confederates, our informant in the
number, sprang over the entrench
ments and began picking up the
wounded, and helped to remove them
some fifty yards or more, where they
were delivered to the blue-coats.
During this time there was almost
a fraternal scene between the two
lines which but a couple of minutes
before had been fighting each other as
fiercely as tigers. After all the wound
ed had been removed from danger of
the fire, the Confederates shook hands
with the Federals, and told them they
would not fire until the wounded had
keen taken out of sight; but then to
“look out.” The latter responded that
they could receive the bullets with bet
ter grace from such foes as the Confed
erates had just proven themselves to
be than from any others in the world,
and that it was a pity that they were
not both fighting on the same side.
They will be, in the next war.
“I am willing to endorse what you
record —that the Atlanta campaign of
1864 would have been impossible with
out this road; that all our battles were
fought for its -possession, and that
the Western & Atlantic Railroad of
Georgia should be ‘tlie pride of every
true American, because, by reason of
its existence, the Union was saved.’”—
Extract from letter written by Gen. W.
T. Sherman, Jan. 18th, 1886, to the
General Passenger Agent of the Western
<Sc Atlantic Railroad.
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
The W. & A’s Passenger Boom.
The increase in the passenger busi
ness of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road has been very steady during the
entire spring. Within the past two
-weeks, however, it has fairly jumped
up, until it reminds us of the fellow
who said, on a hot day, that the mer
cury in the thermometer was so high
that he would have to get a telescope
to see to the top of it.
This is not to be wondered at, when
we realize that the Western & Atlan
tic is the only line between Atlanta
and Chattanooga which handles
through sleeping cars which run daily
between Jacksonville and Cincinnati,
and between Atlanta and Nashville;
and through parlor chair cars between
Atlanta and Nashville; and through
first-class coaches daily between At
lanta and Little Rock; also which
runs, daily, first-class coaches between
Jacksonville and Chattanooga.
Its passenger business, therefore, is
on a boom which has attracted very
general attention, and its thoughtful
regard for the comfort of its passen
gers has made it, unquestionably, the
favorite route leading from Georgia to
the northwest.
The Watermelon Business.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has a fame which extends all over
America as having done more to ad
vertise the “Georgia watermelon” than
any other company. It has spent five
times as much money as any other
company in this respect. Watermelon
shippers and dealers appreciate this
fact, and have for years given the
Western <fe Atlantic the great bulk of
their business to territory where it
could handle it. Its record for prompt
and efficient handling of the water
melon crop has no parallel in America.
Owing to the complications brought
about by the Interstate-Commerce-Law,
and the consequent difficulty of get
ting the basis for publishing rates to
all points, it had to abandon its usual
custom in that regard this season, and
leave the rate quotations to be made
by the forwarding roads direct; but it
made good this deficiency by perfect
ing its train service, schedules, and
every other need for the quickest pos
sible transportation of the crop to the
north and west, and now offers to all
concerned in the melon business the
safest, quickest, and most reliable route
of any over which shipments will be
made.
Vinings.
This is the place for picnics. The
railroad has erected a beautiful pavil
ion at the spring, with other conven
iences. Hardly a day passes without
a picnic from somewhere. Everybody
knows the W. & A. R. R. hauls more
pretty girls than any other road in the
South. —R. & R., Marietta Journal.
Yes, of course, everybody knows
that. The pretty girls ride on the W.
& A. which some, therefore call “the
pretty girls’ favorite.” Young men,
buy your tickets and jump aboad.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is
known as the “old reliable.”
Kennesaw Mountain’s Battle-
Days.
These W#rb during the months of
June and July, 1864, after the Confed
erate army, under General Joseph E.
Johnston, had fallen back from the
New Hopq Church line ot defenses to
the lines extending over and around
the mountain. During the first few
days of this period the fighting was
principally north and northwest of the
mountain; afterwards the two rival
hosts swung around toward the south
and southwest, while maintaining,
however, a close grapple, daily, with
each other, at the mountain.
From the summit of the mountain,
where there was the Confederate sig
nal st ition, all the general movements
could be observed. The trains over
the Western & Atlantic Railroad from
Atlanta bringing supplies for the Con
federate army could be seen on the
south, and the trains over the same
road bringing supplies for the Federal
army could be seen on the north.
During the first few days the lines
of battle were some two or three miles
north of the mountain. During this
period the Federal batteries made oc
casional attempts to shell the Confed
erate signal station on the crest of the
greater peak; but their missiles gen
erally fell short of the mark. When
the last line of entrenchments, which
ran over the mountain itself, was pre
pared and occupied by the Confeder
ates, they also planted guns on the
summits of the mountain —about nine
guns on Little Kennesaw and twelve
on Great Kennesaw.
Those on Little Kennesaw, the first
day after they were placed in position,
had what was termed a field day, in
that they bombarded the Federal po
sition during the entire day and a por
tion of the succeeding night, and
received scarcely a shot in return from
the Federals, who had not gotten their
artillery in proper position to enable
them to respond to the fiery salutation
which their antagonists had greeted
them with.
Within a couple ot days, however,
General Sherman, it is said, bad 140
cannon trained against the Confeder
ate position on the summit ot the moun
tain, and from that time on, the Con
federates on their lofty perch had a
lively time of it. The bombardment
from the Union army’s batteries is
said to have been literally terrific.
One of the Confederate officers who
was on Little Kennesaw, states that
nearly every afternoon, from about
June 22d till July 3d, the Federal bat
teries opened fire upon the summit of
the mountain, and bombarded it furi
ously for an hour or two. The Con
federate supply of ammunition was too
limited for them to always respond in
kind, though one day there was, for a
time, a grand artillery duel between
the batteries in the fieldsand “thebat
teries amid the clouds.*
On the 27th day of June occurred
the great battle of Kennesaw Moun
tain, of which our readers have already
had a vivid description in a previous
number of the Kennesaw Gazette.
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