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8 KENNESAW GAZETTE, PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND 15th OF EACH MONTH. BY THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY. A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR, 8 <fc 10 MARIETTA ST.. ATLANTA, GA. Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of Northern and Northwest Georgia, SUBSCRIPTION: 81 a year ; six months, 50cts. ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 1, 1890. Our patrons will find some very interesting reading on the first page of this issue. Kennesaw’s Bombardment. The above novel, by Mr. Joseph M. Brown, has attracted marked attention from the press, and is receiving un stinted praise. It will be sent, post paid, to any ad dress on receipt of 25 cents, and will be found on sale in the leading book stores and on the trains. It is a pretty piece of press work from the Record Publishing Co., At lanta, Ga. The Mail Service. Something seems to have gotten out of whack with the United States mail service. Some of our best subscribers write to us or state to us that their copies of our paper are frequently a number of days late in arriving, and that in some cases they do not get them at all. The Kennesaw Gazette emphat ically states that the postal authorities should correct this. There is no delay at all in mailing the paper as soon as it is received from the printer. We hope this number will arrive promptly after it is sent to the post office. The Unknown Soldier’s Grave. We give in .this issue a couple of poems on the subj-ct of the un known soldier’s grave in Allatoona Pass Both were written before their autho s knew -whether the oc cupant had been a Federal or Con federate soldier. It has for some time b-en positively established, however, that this was one who wore the gray and marched under the “bonnie blue flag” of the South. In Mr. Brown’s article in this issue of this paper, however, it seems that it is possible that thi< grave holds all that is mortal of Col. W. H. Clark, of the 46th Mis sissippi regiment, who was killed in the a>saulton the Federal works, in the battle of Allatoona. We trust that the facts about this may be es tablished. What word in the English language has five syllables, in each of which is the letter “i,” and which expresses what is excited among the W. & A. people every time any of its rivals try to “down it?” Look, after you guess, to the bottom of one of the columns of this paper. Think of it! You can leave Cincinnati after breakfast and get to Atlanta be fore bed time that day if your ticket reads over the W. & A. R. R. * THE BATTLE OF ALLA TOONA. A Masterly Presentation of the Facts. The bulk of this issue of the Kenne saw Gazette is given up to Mr. Joseph M. Brown’s paper on the subject of the battle of Allatoona. We have read the article very closely as it has gone through the forms, and are prepared to state that it is in our opinion the most thorough and exhaustive article which has ever been written on this subject. It gives to the public informa tion on both sides which has never been known up to this time. We consider it as fair a presentation of the facts as is possible to be made. Mr. Brown has presented to the public through the columns of the Kennesaw Gazette the result of researches at odd times within the past four years on this subject; the results of his visits to the battle-fields with Generals French and Corse, the commanders of the two con tending forces, and others who took part in the bloody scenes of that event ful October 5, 1864; and we may fur ther add, the results of several hun dred pages of correspondence with par ticipants in the battle on both sides, as well as of many scores of pages of official r eports made by the two commanding generals and their subordinate officers to their respective governments. Mr. Brown had prepared for this ar ticle, and which we publish with it, the only map extant of the battle-field of Allatoona, showing its mountain ridges, its ravines and fortifications, the town, etc. He has furthermore secured two photographs of the fortifications at Alla toona, taken by a Federal artist in 1864, and has had cuts engraved from copies of them, which we present here with. The paper is, as our readers will note, profusely illustrated with engrav ings thoroughly characteristic of the positions and scenes enacted upon them. We have no doubt that this copy of the Kennesaw Gazette will be more highly treasured than any of its prede cessors by the many who will read it. It will be observed that we have doubled the size of our paper, in order to fur nish Mr. Brown’s article, and at the same time give our usual amount of other entertaining matter. The Surviving- Officers of the Battle of Allatoona. It will probably be of interest to some of our readers to know where the leading survivors of the battle of Allatoona now live. Os the Confederates, General French resides at Winter Park, Fla. General Cockrell’s home is in Warrensburg, Mo. He is United States Senator from Missouri. Gen eral Young lives near San Antonio, Texas. General Sears is Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss. Major Sanders is a leading lawyer in Louisville, Ky. Captain Kolb lives in Eufaula, Ala. He is Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Alabama. General Stewart is also living, and is one of the NationalChickamaugaandChat- THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. tanooga Park Commission. We do not know his present address. Os the Federals, General Corse is postmaster of Boston, Mass. Col. Tourtellotte is living, but we do not know his addres-’. The other com manding officers of regiments, etc., we are not posted about. The Soldier’s Grave. BY JOSEPH M. BROWN. In Allatoona Pass, by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, is the grave of an unknown soldier who fell in the battle there Oct. 5, 1864. “In the railroad cut there’s a lonely grave Which the track-men hold sacred to care ; They have piled ’round it stones, and for it they save Every flower, when their task calls them there. “Away from the home of his love, Away from his sweetheart or wife, Away from his mother, whose pray ers went above, He gave for his country his life. “We know not if, wearing the blue he came ’Neath the ‘bright starry banner' ar rayed, And, dying, that it o’er the mountain of fame Might forever in triumph wave, prayed. “Or we know not if, ’neath the bonnie blue Hag” He rush'd forth, his country’s defend er, Valiant, smote those who her cause ■ down would drag, And only to death did surrender, “That, God only knows ; and so in His hand Let the secret unfathomed e’er rest; But this we know that he died for his land, And the banner he though was the best. “Heav’n pity the dear ones, who pray’d his return, Heav’n bless them, and shield them from woes, Heav’n grant o'er his grave to melt anger stern, And make brothers of those who were foes ! ” What Wives are For. The Marietta Journal has a very sensible article on the above subject, in which, however, we note the follow ing named as one of the golden quali ties, or the like, viz:—“who will put her lips to his ear and whisper words of counsel.” Now we don’t agree with our cotem porary about this. Why should a wife put her lips to her hubby’s ear and whisper words of counsel or love to him when she can just as easily re cline in her soft arm chair before the fire, or look sweetly at him across the well-laden breakfast table and talk her counsel or love right out ? If a wife loves her husband she has just as much right to speak it out loud as anybody else has to talk out on any other subject. We are opposed to in culcating lhe idea in the minds of “Young America” that we must “whisper words of counsel”or love. No, sir, Mr. Journal, there’s nothing in a wife’s love for her husband which ren ders it improper for her to talk it out loud. There is no need for her being ashamed of it, but rather the reverse. Hurrah! we say, for the wife who will talk out as boldly in telling her advice to or her love for her husband as she will when she hollers across the hall for Jim to bring in a hot waffle. Letter from one of Lee’s Veter ans, who knew what were Strong- Fortifications. Allatoona, Ga, Nov. 10,1890. Mr. Joseph M. Brown, Dear Sir : In reply to yours of Oct. 21st, I will state that I first saw the fortifications at Allatoona in 1867. They were then in a fair state of preservation, showing clearly what they were in 1864. The walls of the fort on the west side of the railroad were about ten feet high from the bottom of the ditch on the outside. This ditch was about five feet deep, and the inside wall of the fort about five feet high, the outside wall sloping to the ditch. At the time of the battle there was a large dwelling house on the north of the Cartersville road in iron tot this fort, distant from it about one hundred yards. From a hol low south of the road and in front of this house there ran a line of breast works nearly parallel to the road for one hundred and fifty fronting south. At about two hundred and fifty yards from the fort this line crossed the road and ran north for about forty or fifty yards. These breastworks were about four and one half feet high, in cluding the headlog on top. Immediate ly in front of the works were three lines of pointed stakes set in t e ground, slant ing up and out about three feet high. In front of these stakes all the timber was felled for about two hundred yards. The timber was also cut down between the fort and the outer line and to the railroad. This feature of the works impressed me at the time I saw it as being as strong as any I saw in Virginia in 1864, and must have formed a terrible imped iment to attacking troops. The gap between the north end of thislineand the railroad was commanded by the fort and detached rifle pits and breastworks between the fort and near the railroad. The fort on the east side of the rail road had less area; but was of the same construction as that on the west side. A line of breastworks similar to those on the west side ran from the fort to a hollow about one hundred yards from the railroad. West of this hollow and curving with it ran another to the rail road cut and along it facing west. All the timber in front of these lines was felled to the farming landson Allatoona Creek. On this creek in front of these works there was a mill pond, and the Federals added to the dam until the water cover ed all the bottom and the hollow’s at the foot of the ridge, so that all the ground over which assaulting troops could go to attack these forts and lines was covered by the strongest kind of defensive works. The forts commanded all the ground on the south side of the ridge, so that there was no need of any other defen sive works in that direction. Yours truly, I. O. McDaniel. Letter from one of the Leading Citizens of Aliatoona. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25, 1890. Mr. Jos. M. Brown, My Dear Sir: In compliance with your request, I have read the letters of Mr. I. O. Me. Daniel and Mr. W. M. Denton. lam fully aware of all the circumstances enumerated in the former, and I have heard Mr. Denton’s oral statement, identical with that made in his letter, more than once. I first saw the fortifications about Allatoona in the year 1867. The lands upon which they stand, at that time, be-