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i K®St ' _r ~- -J kHO- — (q *-ALLEYi rt’"jO Vol. IV. suroe battery Jiotjs. 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. A Ba 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. * I ■Ai / X I ■ t 11 Jf ,v« j/ jj J.r /j 111 MB ‘ I AS OTHERS SEE HIM. 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.