Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-06-11
Battle Of Rome...-0fficia
ROME, Cory.

! ROME, CORY.
! Mr. Elitor.-So nanny ourelie
able persons viii be sirkplaiin spew
rious akkounis Of the " "Grandrounds'
tux by the infernul Yankees 10 these
Romc-aniik rejuns, that / think i
highly proper you should git the
strait OF il from one nho seed it witt
his eyes, and hearn it with his years
and piece of it fell on his big toe
More Than 200 years ago, Gen:
rul D, Soto had big phigbt with the
iniuns on or about these consekrated
grounds. Sense that time an unih-
teTppted peece hay rained around
these klassic hills and hollers. Flow.
ers hav lIoomed sweetly, lams hav
skipped about, dog fennel hav yal-
Ter d the ground. and the Coosa
river, which war then but a little
spring branch hav grown both wioe
and deep, ontil now, the majestiek
steamboat can phloat upon IFS boos.
um, and the big mud Cat gobble up
the yearth worms what chance to fall
into its walters.
But rollen years will change a
program! Aune-domini will tell :.
jest afore the broke Of day on Sun.
day. the 3 Of May, Eighteen hun
dred and 63, the ciiyzens Of the
eternal city war arroased from ther
slumbers with The choryus Of the
MARSHES hym. ITO arms to arms
ye brave; Abe Linkhorn- are peg
gin away The yankees are ridin to
Rome on raid" Ah! then wer
the time to try men S soles (; but thar
wer nopanik no skedaddlin, M shakin
Of nees, but one universal determy-
natiun to do sumEhin. The buryal
sqlad organized fust and foremost,
aud begun to inter ther money and
spoons and 4 prongd forks and sich
like, In small graves about the prem.
ses. Babies wer sent to the rsar.-
Hoses hid in the cane brake. Cows
m,iked uncommon dry. Cashiers
and bank agents Carried off therI
phunds in pair Of saddle bags which
very Nuch exposed ther facilities
and the small compass Of ther re-
soreces. 1t were however a salts:
factory solushun of ther refusin to
discount for the last 8 months.-
Shouts were sent out on every road
to snuff the tainted breeze. Kotten
bags we're piled up across every high
way aud .Jow way. Shot guns and
cannon and powder and ball, were
brought TO the front. The yoman.
ry aud the melishy jiued squad Of
Confederate troops and formed a line
of battle. They were marched across
the 0astanaw'y River, and then the
plank Of the bridge tore up, so that
they kould MT retreat. This wer done,
however, at their own valyunt request
bekqus OF the nateraI weakness of
the flesb. They determined j'nfly
and sevrally, firmly by these presents
TO do sttmthp. q
Two cracked cannon, what bed
holes in the ends, and two or ,bree
on the side, wer proppad up between
The kotton bags, and pinted ded STRAIT
do@n the road towards the Alabam.
They wer iust loaded with buck shot
and tacks; and then round ball
ranled on top. The bali were to take
the raid on the frent, and the bullets
and tacks 70 rake 'em in the phlaBk.
These latter. it wer supposed, would
60 through the cracks in the side,
and shoot round generally. Every
body and every thing determined TO
die in their tracks or do snmthin.-
The steamboats, dropped quietly down
The river to git out Of the thick of
the fight. esharpshooters got on
top of the semmeterry hill With ther
repeaters and pocket pistols. The
videttes dashed with spy glasses to
the top of the court house to see ssnr
off Dashin Camancby courriers rode
onruly steeds to and fro, like I'D
dIer's elbow. Sum went forward to
reconnoiter as skodts; thes as skonts
-fust in the road then outinf The
road; .thes as skouts--scme mouui-
soIves seme oD foot. All wer re-
AT this most cI4ia.
prkvius and afterwards, rabttpre, and
brought IN to those Head Quartsffss,
ana all other quarters, 10 the efsk
thai 10000 Yankees we're cummin,
anil 5000. and 1000. and any other