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JIMMY DAY DISPLAYS CIVIL WAR ARTIFACTS
Speaker At Rotary Club Meeting Monday
Sherman Stayed In
Chattooga, Says Speaker
from second front
soldiers fought JUIK 2 at Get
g'sburg. rz;r:ging through the
each orchard, Devil's Den and
the wheat field, scenes of some
of the bloodiest fighting of the
war. Major Jones was fatally
woundecf at Spotsylvania and
died of gangrene. He is buried
in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich
mond, {’a., Day said.
William Cleghorn was se
cond in command and surviv
ed Gettysburg but was killed in
the battle of the Wilderness,
Day added.
Records show that of the
132 men in Company B at the
beginning, 24 surrendered with
Lee at Appomattox, 18 died on
the battgf’ield. 25 died of
disease and there's no record of
the fate of the others, Day said.
BAKER'S CREEK
Another contingent of
Chattooga County soldiers
fought at Baker's Creek, Miss.,
against Union forces on May
16, 1863. The hill at the creek
exchanged hands several times
during the six-hour battle but
at the end of the day it was in
Union hands. The Union
soldiers went on to lay siege to
Vicksburg, Miss.
Segments of Gen. William
T. Sherman's army ranged
throu%x Chattooga County in
1863, Day said. sne unit mar
ched south from Chattanooga,
another used Stephens Gap
(now the site of Mountain Cove
Farms in Walker County) and
a third went through
Winston's Gap near Alpine in
Chattooga County, he said.
Some 14,000 Union soldiers
were encamped near Alpine
Presbyterian Church with (gen.
A. D. McCook setting up his
headquarters in the communi
ty. McCook had orders to
march to Summerville to in
terce%t what the Union
thought were retreating Con
federate units. However,
McCook disregarded his orders
and sent his troops and wagons
back over Lookout Mountain
at Winston’s Gap, returning to
the Chattanooga area. The
bloody battle of Chickamauga
was fought later.
Day said had McCook's
forces marched to Summer
ville, he would have been cut
off and destroyed by Con
federate units and the “‘battle
of Chickamauga' might have
been fought in Chattooga
County.
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CONFEDERATE CAMP
A Confederate camp was at
Pennville near the area of the
present school and another was
in downtown Summerville,
Day said. Dead Union and Con
federate soldiers were found in
the streets of Summerville and
near Cleghorn Springs, he said.
It has been confirmed that
General Sherman did stay in
Summerville, based on letters
to his wife, Day said. He
bypassed Trion factory and
burned only one building in
Chattoo% gounty —the coun
ty jail. Day speculated that
Sherman burned the jail
because it had been used to
house Union sympathizers.
A Union soldier from ll
linois wrote about campin?l on
the Chattooga River south of
Trion at the Smallwood cabin,
Day said, and told his fiancee
that two women had ridden u})
on mules asking for Union ot
ficers to return to their cabin to
“protect” them. The soldier
wrote that none of the officers
took the women up on their of
fer, Day said, but whether
that was the truth remains
unknown. The soldier was
struck by the women's use of
snuff, Day said, adding that
the snuff of that day was very
grainy and that the women us
ed a stick to mash it against
their gums and cheek.
“WEATHERBEATEN"
The soldier continued in his
letters that Chattooga County
was a beautiful county,
although Summerville was
described as ‘“‘weatherbeaten.”
There was plenty of food in the
county, a situation unlike most
of the South at that stage of
the war, Day said. The Union
soldier said he and his com
rades bought fproduce from
local farmers before decamping
and leaving for Gaylesville,
Ala. The Chattooga River was
described by the soldier as the
clearest, cleanest river he had
ever seen, Day said.
It is reported that Sherman
made up his mind to ‘*“March to
the Sea'” while he was camped
at Gaylesville, Day said.
After his talk, the Lyerly
resident said he and some other
Civil War buffs are attempting
to get a Civil War Roundtable
together in the county. Anyone
interested in becoming involv
ed may get in touch with Day.
Mattingly
Warns
Envoys
U. S. Sen. Mack Mattingly
(R-Ga.) warned United States
textile trade negotiators this
week that Congress will over
ride President lgtra:gan‘s textile
bill veto, if recent trade
afeements are indicative of
what can be expected from the
renewed Multifiber Arrange
ment (MFA) next month.
“Ineffective bilateral
agreements such as those just
completed with Hong Kong
and Taiwan will virtually
assure that a new Multifiber
Arrangement will not &ass
muster in the Congress,”” Mat
tinglg said.
‘Pending negotiations with
South Korea look equally
dismal with regard to effective
ly limiting the growth of textile
imports to our country,” he
seaid. ‘‘Based on what we've
seen so far, it is reasonable to
assume that Congress will
garner the two-thirds vote
necessary to override the Presi
dent’s veto when the measure
comes up Aug. 6.”
The textile bill, which both
houses passed last year with
less than the required number
of votes to override a veto, may
be the only alternative to secur
ing adequate import control
measures, Mattingly said.
U. S. representatives cur
rently are negotiating the
renewal of the multifiiteral
agreement governing global
i;extile trade which expires Ju
v 31.
Church League
Softball Event
A Church League Softball
Tournament sponsored by the
Trion 50-Yard Club will be held
Au%. 1 and 2 at the Trion field.
ntry fee is $65 per team
with a limit of 10 teams. Each
team is required to furnish one
ball. There will be first, second
and third place trophies
awarded.
To register, see Wayne
Whited at the Trion Recreation
Department.
A concession stand will be
open.
Full Gospel
Meet Slated
A Full Gospel Business
men'’s Fellowship meeting will
be held Saturday at Days Inn,
Turner McCall Boulevard,
Rome.
The speaker will be Don
Norris of Carrollton, interna
tional director of FGBMFI.
Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, call
291-1441 or 234-8828.
Church Of Christ
Gospel Meet Set
A gospel meeting will be
held next Sunday through
Aué. 1 at Lookout Hall church
of Christ.
Sunday morning Bible
study willy begin at 10 a.m.
followed by worship services at
11 am. '
All daily services will begin
at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Dillen, minister of
LaFayette church of Christ,
will be the speaker.
The public is invited.
Annual '
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The gravesite of Daniel O'Rear, a Revolu
tionary War veteran who lived in Chat
tooga County from 1839 to 1858, will be
marked this fall by the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The gravesite is
just beyond a twisted old cedar tree which
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
Patriot Rests At Macedonia
from second front
tomahawk and scalping knives
on their belts."”
The Gazette further
documents an event in
O'Rear’s military record. In
October, 1775, a company of
Culpegper riflemen drove off a
British landing party attemp
ting to burn the town of Hamp
ton, Va. Several British were
killed and a tender with seven
British sailors was captured
without any loss of Virginians.
Daniel O'Rear is at least the
second Revolutionary War
soldier to be ‘‘discovered”
buried in Chattooga County. In
1976, the grave of Edward
Jackson, who served two years
in the Revolutionary Army,
was re-discovered in the Poe
Graveyard, near the Walker
County line just north of Trion.
Graves Myers 111 of Summer
ville made the discovery after
researching his family history.
Jackson was born in South
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Carolina in 1759. He received
a veteran's bounty grant of
land in Muscogee County in
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be with his children and grand
children. He died in 1845.
Census
from second front
— The economic effects of
unemployment, disability and
retirement.
— How taxes affect per
sonal spending.
— Participation in pro
flams such as Social Security,
edicare and Medicaid, and
food stamps.
Information collected in
SIPP is confidential by law. In
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identifying them as U. S. Cen
sus Bureau employees.
is prominent in the cemetery landscape.
Descendants of Daniel O'Rear traveflad
from nine states to visit and ;f)hotog'ra h
the gravesite Saturday. (Staff photo Ey
Kay Abbott).
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Industrial Park
Paving Gets Okay
Georgia's Department of
Tranz‘portation (DOT) con
tinued to look with favor on
Chattooga County this week,
authorizing a county contract
for pavirg Summerville's In
dustrial Park Road.
DOT Commissioner Tom
Moreland said the county con
tract will include 1.220 miles of
paving in the 'park at an
estimated cost of $85,079.
Work will begin as soon as
a contract has been executed
and a work order issued, said
Moreland.
“The viability of local roads
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