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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,
BEACHED BT
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
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THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR,
8 & 10 MARIETTA ST.. ATLANTA, GA.
SUBSCRIP'I I• »N • 81 a year; six months. 50 ets.
ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.
W. & A. R. R.
To Florida and the South.
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The Only Through Sleeping Car
Line.
Old soldiers and their families and friends
who desire to take the best route to Atlan
ta, all Florida points, and to other points
in the southeast, should be certain to see
that their tickets read over the Western &
Atlantic Railroad.
In addition to its historic associations,
which are shown elsewhere in this number,
the Western & Atlantic Railroad is the only
railroad in Georgia which runs throuyh
sleeping cars all the year round between Cincin
nati and Atlanta and between Nashville and At
lanta. During the season of Florida travel,
which begins in the fall, the Western & At
lantic and its connections also run through
sleeping cars daily Cincinnati to Jacksonville, and
through first-class coaches daily from Chattanoo
ga to Jacksonville, and from Nashville to At
lanta.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is the
only railroad in Georgia running four pas
senger trains per day each way, or, in other
words, eight through passenger trains per day
between Chattanooga and Atlanta. It also
runs eight accommodation passenger trains daily,
except Sunday, thus furnishing to the trav
eling public sixteen passenger trains per day.
It is the only line by which passengers
from the north and west are landed in the
Union Passenger Depot, Atlanta, making
- connection there with all diverging lines.
It is the only line by which you can reach
MARIETTA, GA.,
which is well termed “the prettiest city in
Georgia,” and which is becoming one of the
favorite resorts for pleasure and health in
the southeast. When it is too cold to stay
in the northwest and yet too hot to go to
Thomasville or Florida, the weather in Ma
rietta is charming, and this little city has
for this reason become the great “half-way
stopping place” between the northwest and
Florida.
Schedules over the Western & Atlantic
Railroad are quick and sure. Leaving Cin
cinnati after supper one evening you are
landed in the Union Depot, Atlanta, by the
W. & A. R. R., at dinner time the next day;
or leaving Cincinnati after breakfast you
are in Atlanta after supper; or leaving
Nashville after supper you reach Atlanta
for breakfast; or leaving Nashville after
breakfast you arrive in Atlanta for supper
via the W. & A.
The schedule from Cincinnati to Jack
sonville, Fla., via the W. & A. R. R., was
28 HOURS
last winter, and doubtless the same schedule
will be in effect this season.
All parties who desire to secure further
information as to rates, schedules, etc., over
the W. & A. R. R., should call on or write
to, JOSEPH M. BROWN,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t,
CHAS. E. H \RMAN, Atlanta, Ga.
Gen’l Western Ag’t,
131 Vine St., Cincinnati, 0.
THOS. McGILL,
Gen’l Northwestern Ag’t,
79 Clark St., Chicago, 111.
J. T. HOSFORD,
Gen’l Trav. Pass. Ag’t,
79 Clark St., Chicago, 111.
“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 ‘the pride of every
rue American, because, by reason of
its existence, the Union was saved.’” —
Extract from letter written by Gen. W.
1. Sherman, Jan. 18th, 1886, to the
General Passenger Agent of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad.
THE STRUGGLE FOR KEN
NESAW.
During the month oL June and early in
July, 1861, there was a struggle between
about one hundred and sixty thousand vet
eran soldiers for the possession of Kennesaw
Mountain. This has gone into history, and
that is the best place to let it stay.
There is another struggle in a small way
in which Kennesaw figures in the books and
newspapers —that is, as to the orthography
of the name.
KENNESAW MOUNTAIN
has always been spelled in Georgia as is
shown in this sentence. The Federal com
manders during the war, and the northern
writers since the war, however, generally
spell it Kenesaw. This is and always has
been incorrect, and Georgia is bound to
down the north in this struggle for Kenne
saw.
There is another so-called struggle for
Kennesaw, which has a humorous phase
to it.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad, which
runs immediately around the base of Ken
nesaw Mountain, calls itself the “Kennesaw
Route,” and the name has popularized the
road all over America. The passenger de
partment of the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railway, which at one time ran
through sleeping cars over the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, which cars, of course,
passed around Kennesaw Mountain when
going over the latter-named road, seeing the
marvelous popularity of the name—“Ken
nesaw Route”—now tries to persude the
traveling public that it is the Kennesaw
Route.
This attempt, however, is so supremely
ludicrous that the Western & Atlantic peo
ple never mention it except to point out the
utter silliness of the attempt of their com
petitors to cabbage their route name.
It must be confessed that the passenger
department of the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railway pays the Western & At
lantic Railroad a high compliment in at
tempting to deceive the people into the be
lief that the E. T., V. & G. is the Kennesaw
Route, instead of trying the better plan of
duplicating the through car service, splen
did condition of the road-bed and the quick
and sure schedules for which the Western
& Atlantic has long been noted.
The traveling public, however, should see
that their tickets read over the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, or they will fail in their
desire to ride over the “Kennesaw Route.”
Capt. Andrews’ Remains.
The following sequel to a tragic
event of twenty-five years ago, was
printed in the Atlanta Journal, of
April 141887. Capt. Andrews was the
leader of the band of Federal s that cap
tured the “General,” and fbr which
deed he was executed, and afterward,
seven of his associates were hanged :
“On Monday afternoon last Major
E. B. Kirke. A. Q. M., U. S. A., Dr.
C. L. Wilson, president of the Nation
al Surgical Institute, and Mr. Fred J.
Cooke, resident manager of the Ameri
can Press Association, wended their
way out Peachtree street, bent upon a
mission which was to prove the sequel
of a tragic event that occurred just a
quarter of a century ago. Turning to
the right along Ponce de Leon avenue,
about one and one-half miles north of
the union depot, and again to the left
and north up Juniper street, leading
from the front of Mr. Ed Peters’ resi
dence, they continued a few rods until
they came to a narrow, unused cross
street which Jed to the left. Just at
the entrance of this last named nar
row street, on the right side, jhey com
menced digging, under the instructions
of Mr. John H. Mashburn, an old resi
dent, and worked steadily for two hours,
making an irregular excavation about
ten feet long, four feet wide and three
feet deep.
The results of their research were
laid carefully one side as they were
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
found. They consisted of a portion of
the leg, foot, arm and rib boues of a
human body, and no more of them
could be found.
These were the mortal remains of
Captain J. J. Andrews, the intrepid
leader of as brave and gallant a band
of men as ever wore blue or gray,
known in history as the “Mitchell Raid
ers,” “Bridge Burners” or “Engine
Thieves.” The thrilling adventures
and final capture of these men on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, on the
12th of April, 1862, sound like a ro
mance in these sober days, and are fa
miliar to every household, both North
and South.
Andrews escaped from prison at
Chattanooga on Sunday, the 2d of
June, but was recaptured on the next
day, and having been condemned as a
spy by a court martial and sentenced
to be hung, he was brought to Atlanta
for that purpose on the evening of
June Bth. He was carried out Peach
tree road, followed by a large crowd,
to the gallows, which had been erected
in the ravine, within a few rods of
where his remains were found. At
this time the limits of the town of At
lanta proper did n<»t extend within
nearly a mile of this spot, and the
ground was covered with forest trees.
He was accompanied by three clergy
men —Messrs. Scott, Conyers and Con
ners—each of whom stood beside him
on the scaffold and offered prayer and
words of consolation. The former
spoke the dying message of the prison
er which had been confided to him, and
is said to have used his influence for a
respite, but no one could, if they would,
revoke the decree that had been solemn
ly pronounced. Rev. Scott is still a
highly respected citizen of Atlanta,
and there are several others now living
in the city who witnessed the impres
sive scene. Capt. Andrews bore the
trying ordeal like a true soldier, awak
ing feelings of admiration and regret
in the minds of the men upon whom
devolved the unpleasant duty of carry
ing out his sentence, and after the
three clergymen had grasped his hand
in a last farewell, he was launched in
to eternity. Before his death, he gave
his watch and chain as a keepsake to
one who had shown him e-pecial acts
of kindness. After life had become
extinct he was buried on the hillside,
near the spot where he was executed.
Captain J. J. Andrews was a native
of Hancock county, Virginia, born in
1829, and reared by pious Presbyterian
parents, who removed, when he was
still a young man, to Southwestern
Missouri. A large portion of his life
had been in Fleming county,
Kentucky. At the breaking out of
the war he sympathized with the Union
cause, and rendered it signal service as
a scout. A record of his career, if it
could be obtained, would prove to be
one of the most interesting personal
histories of the war. He had no fam
ily, but was engaged to be married,and
the ceremony was to have occurred
about the date of his death.
His remains arc said to have been
exhumed a day or two after they were
first buried, for the purpose of secur
ing his clothing, and immediately re
interred. From the fact that the skull
bone and other bones are missing, it is
supposed that they must have been af
terward disturbed. The place of his
interment has always been known to a
family living in the vicinity, and the
sad story has been told to the children
’ who visited the spot and tried to realize,
( from the fate of poor Andrews,the dread
realities of the terrible strife. A fur
ther and more extended search is soon
to be made for the balance of the re
mains. The portion which has been
secured has been placed in the tempo
rary charge of Dr. Wilson, at the Sur-
gical Institute. They are to be sent
to Chattanooga to be buried in the Na.
tional Cemetery beside those of the seven
other unfortunate members of his band
who were hung at what is now a po r .
lion of Oakland Cemetery, June
1862, and funds are to be raised for J
suitable monument there.
For the past ten years repeated es.
forts have been made to find the remains
of Capt. Andrews, and much time has
been expended by survivors of the ex
pedition and others, in vain, and it
was generally supposed that on account
of the grading of new streets, etc., the
exact location of the grave would never
be ascertained. The portion of the re
mains that have been found are identi
fied beyond dispute.
Only via the Western & Atlantic
Railroad can you go to Elizabeth,“the
Marble City of Georgia,” where there
is the most wonderful marble-cutting
machinery in the world. Tourists will
miss it if they do not stop at Marietta
and go up to Elizabeth, only two miles
distant, immediately at the foot of the
famous Kennesaw Mountain.
list’of battles
Along the Line of the
WTfflN & ATLANTIC B. I
(GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE,)
The Histories Battlefields’
Route of America,
Some were genera) battles between the two grand
armies, others between divisions or brigades.
“Battle Among the Clouds,” (Lookout Moun
tain) Nov. 24, 1863.
Battle of Missionary Ridge, Nov, 25, 1863.
Great battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 18, 19, 20,
1863.
Battle of Chickamauga Station, Nov. 26, 1863.
Battle of Graysville, Nov. 26,1863.
Battle of Graysville, Aug 16, 1864.
Battle of Peavine Creek, (near Ringgold) Sept.
10.1863.
Battle of Ringgold,
Battle of Ringgold, Nov. 27,1863.
Battle of Catoosa Springs, Sept 14,1863.
Battle of Tunnel Hill, Nov. 28, 1863.
Battle of Tunnel Hill, Feb. 23, 1864.
Battle of Tunnel Hill, May 6, 1864.
Battle of Tunnel Hill, May 7,1864.
Battle of Mill Creek Gap, Feb. 25,1864.
Battle of Rocky Face, Feb. 25, 1864.
Battle of Lug Gap, Feb. 26', 1864.
Battle of Dug Gap, May 8,1864.
Battle of Rocky Face, May 8, 1864,
Battle of Mill Creek Gap, May 8, 1864.
Battle of Rocky Face, May 9, 1864.
Battle of Mill Creek Gap, May 9, 1864.
Batlie of Mill Creek Gap, May 10,1864.
Battle of Rocky Face, May 12,1864.
Battle of Mill Creek Gan, Oct 13,1864.
Battle of Dalton, Aug. 14,1864.
Battle of Dalton, Oct. 13.1864.
Battle of Tilton, May 13, 1864.
Battie of Tilton, Aug. 14, 1864.
Battle < f Tilton, Oct. 13, 1864.
Battle of Resaca, May 9, 1864.
Battle of Resaca, May 13,1864.
Battle of Resaca, May 14,1864.
Battle of Resaca, May 15,1864.
Battle of Resaca, Oct. 12, 1864.
Battle of Snake Creek Gap, Oct. 15, 1864.
Battle of Lay’s (or Tanner’s) Ferry, May 14,’64.
Battle of Lay’s (or Tanner’s) Ferry, May 15,’64.
Battle of Lay’s (or Tanner s) Ferry, May 16/64.
Battle of Calhoun, Aug. 14, 1864.
Battle of Adairstille, May, 17,1864.
Battle of Kingston, May 19,1864.
Battle of Cassville, May 19,1864.
Battle of Cassville, (cavalry) May 21, 1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 25,1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 26,1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 27,1864.
Batt e of Pickett’s Mill, May 27,1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 28, 1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 29, 1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 30,1864.
Battle of New Hope Church, May 31, 1864.
Battle of Allatoona, Oct. 5, 1864.
Battle of Allatoona Creek, Oct. 5,1864.
Battle of Acworth, June 5,1864.
Battle of Acworth, Oct. 4, 1864.
Battle of Big Shanty, June 5,1864.
Here also occurred the famous “Capture of a
Locomotive,” April 12,1862.
Battle of Big Shanty, Oct. 4, 1864.
Battle of Noonday Creek, June 15, 1864.
Battle of Pine Mountain, June 15,1864.
Battle of Gilgal Church, June 15, 1864.
Battle of Mud Creek, June 17, 1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 18,1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, (cavalry) June
20.1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 20,1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864.
Battle of Kulp’s Farm, June 22, 1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 24, 1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 25, 1864.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, tGreat Battle)
June 27, 1864.
Battle of Marietta, July 3,1864.
Battle of Smyrna, July 4,1864.
Battle of Vinings, July 5, 1864.
Battle of Chattahoochee River, July 5,1864.
Battle of Chattahoochee River, July 9, 1864.
Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 19, 1864.
Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20,1864.
Battle of Atlanta, July 21,1864,
Battle of Atlanta, July 22,1864.
Battle of Ezra Church, July 28,1864.
Then followed the “every day battles” around
Atlanta until Sept. 4, 1864.