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Vol. IV.
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We come with revers’d arms 0 comrades
who sleep,
To rear the proud marble —to muse and to
weep.
To speak of the dark days that yet had their
joys,
When we were together —Brave Battery
Boys,
When we were together—Brave Battery
Boys.
Chorus —
Oh ! Kennesaw Mountain, Oh ! Franklin,
declare
What soldiers for freedom cando and can
dare ;
Loud peans of praise each patriot employs,
To tell how they triumph’d—Brave Bat
tery Boys,
To tell how they triumph’d—Brave Bat
tery Boys.
Our hearts will recall them, the scenes
where ye bled,
Where life rush’d away in the torrent of
red;
When Mission Ridge echoed the battle’s
fierce joys,
When rushed to the rescue —Brave Battery
Boys.
When rushed to the rescue —Brave Battery
Boys.
Chorus —
Oh! Kennesaw Mountain, etc.
We may not live over each glory-crown’d
day,
When bravely ye battled and won in the
fray;
When proudly ye sported the grand battle
toys,
And fell but as victors, Brave Battery
Boys,
And fell but as victors, Brave Battery
Boys.
Chorus—
Oh ! Kennesaw Mountain, etc.
We come, O! beloved to garland your tomb,
To twine ’round the marble the spring’s
freshest bloom;
To speak of a past that no present destroys,
And call the dead roll of Brave Battery
Boys,
And call the dead roll of Brave Batter
Boys.
Chorus—
Oh! Kennesaw Mountain, etc.
Oh I brave Twenty-six,when the weary shal 1
rest,
When over our slumbers the sod shall be
prest;
When sweetly forgetful of all that annoys,
We’ll sleep here together Brave Battery
Boys,
We’ll sleep here together Brave Battery
Boys.
Chorus—
Oh! Kennesaw Mountain, etc.
The Western <fc Atlantic Railroad
runs more trains per day over the
same rails than any other railroad south
°1 the Ohio River.
A humorous da.re-d.Qvil—ttie very man to suit my purpose. Bulweb.
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AS HE SEES HIMSELF.
This is the gentleman that occupies four
t Chickamauga Battle Field.
Meeting of Union and Confederate Veterans.
Joint Memorial Corporation.
A special dispatch to the Times from
Washington says that a joint meeting
of Union and Confederate veterans
who were engaged at Chickamauaga
was held in the rooms of the senate
committee on military affairs. The
object was to devise a plan for pre
serving that field, and marking the
positions of all the forces that partici
pated in the fight. Gen. Henry M.
Cist, of Cincinnati, chairman of the
committee of the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland, charged with this
subject, called his committee. It or
ganized and invifed co-operation from
ex-Confederates. The meeting in
Washington was the result. There
were present Gens. Rosecrans, Baird,
Reynolds, Cist, Manderson and Boyn
ton, and Col. Kellogg, of the Union
officers ; and Gens. Bates of Tennessee,
Colquitt of Georgia, Walthall of
Mississippi, Wheeler of Alabama,
Wright of Tennessee, and Cols. Bank
head of Alabama, and Morgan of
Mississippi. A plan for preserving
and marking the field of Chickamauga
under the auspices of a joint memorial
corporation representing all the states
that had troops there, patterned in
general after the Gettysburg associa
tion, was cordially approved. Gens.
Cist and Colquitt were appointed a
committee, with power to add a
further number to prepare an act of
incorporation and correspond with
OUR 'EARLY SPRING" NUMBER.
ATLANTA, CA., MARCH I, 1889.
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seats in a passenger coach on one ticket.
leading officers from each state, whose
troops fought at Chickamauga, with a
view of securing a proper list of incor
porators. This committee will meet
at once to begin work. A number of
officers on each side, members of either
the house or senate, who are greatly
interested in this project were detained
from the meeting by debates in which
they were engaged. — Chattanooga Times.
We are glad to note that the above
movement has at last taken definite
shape. The advantage of the pre
servation of all the historic features of
the battle-field of Chickamauga will
be incalculable to Chattanooga, and
would make that place second to none
in the country in point of historic
interest. And the passenger facilities
furnished by the Western & Atlantic
Railroad would make the visits of all
the old veterans and their families to
the point of the bloodiest battle of the
war doubly interesting.
A slight reference to the battle may
not be out of place. It occurred on
West Chickamauga Creek, west of
Ringgold and Graysville stations on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, Septem
ber 18th, 19th and 20th, 1863, and
has been considered the bloodiest of
all the battles of the war, 26,000 men
having been killed and wounded.
The Federal army, under command of
General Rosecrans, was routed by the
Confederates, under General Bragg,
and the stand of General Thomas,
re-enforced by General Steadman, on
Snodgrass Hill was all that saved
the Federal army from destruction.
Bragg’s total force engaged was 47,321
men; Rosecrans’, 64,392.
“Old Cassville,” Ga.
Editor Kennesaw Gazette:
Cassville was once a beautiful and
attractive village, situated within a
little less than three miles of the W.
& A. Railroad, north of Cass station,
near the center of Bartow county; but
happening to be directly in Sherman’s
war-path, it was shorn of its glory and
laid in ashes by the Federal torch.
Various reasons are assigned for the
cruel deed. Some said it was on
account of the name of the place being
changed by our legislators from Cass
ville to Manassas, soon after the battle
of Bull Run; others said it was done
in revenge for the waving of a black
flag at Cass station by two young
ladies whose patriotism was greater
than their prudence. Again, it was
said that being so near the railroad,
it was a harbor for the rebel scouts.
The Federals entered Cassville on
the night of May 19th, 1864, and
seemed eager to apply the torch at
once. Early the next morning they
burned one of the hotels. Next day
Col. Akin’s residence was burned.
On the 24th Wheeler’s cavalry made
a raid on a wagon train near Cassville
and captured a number of prisoners,
wagons, mules, etc. Orders were re
peatedly issued for the citizens to leave,
and the utter destruction of the place
was threatened; but the threats were
not executed until October 12th, when
the male college and several private
residences • were burned. The male
college was burned by a detachment
of Wilder’s brigade, composed of parts
of the 98th 111., Ist, 3d and 4th Ohio
regiments; and on the sth of Novem
ber, Col. Heith, of the sth Ohio, came
with about three hundred cavalrymen
and completed the final destruction
which left many poor women and
children without a shelter from the
storms of winter which were fast ap
proaching.
The morning was bright and clear,
but in the evening the smoke arose
and formed dark and threatening
clouds, which for a while suspended
over the doomed spot and then seemed
to melt away in tears of grief. It
seemed as if nature was weeping over
the sad fate of old Cassville.
-• H B/B. QuuXiani
NO. 5.