The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-29

Fort, who was then presiding, and the entire
ghborhood started out in search OF Winter.
He was hunted all day, dogs being put on his
track, and at night was located III a house
which was surrounded. Seeing no chance to
escape he gave himself up, and was brought
to town and placed in jail, where he now is.
lie will probably be tried III the county court
next week.
The Monte INA Record has unearthed
ghost in that ace. For several years past the
people living on the south side of town have
occasionally seen something in the shape of
ghost. Not many months ago Pomp Robinson
visited some young ladies on the hill and was
returning home quite late, and he saw some
thing coming down the street and decided to
wait moment and have company to town.
The object approached, and when it got dis
tressngly close it vanished like shadow, and he
put out for home at 2 40 gait. Last Sunday
night, about half-past nine o'clock, as Colonel
Mann was coming from Literary Hill, he
heard the rustling Of something that grated
strangely upon his auditory nerves, and view
ing the surroundings closely, he laid sight on
the irrepressible ghost. He says he was not
scared, but just couldn't help feeling weak in
the knees. Every hair ON the top of his head
was as stiff as a cambria needle. He broke his
Sunday cane trying to hit it, but to no avail.
The appartion disappeared as mysteriously sit
came. He says the place where the "curlous
article" was standing became very light after
its departure, so much so until he could have
picked up as small thing as a telegraph pole
if he had been in hurry.
The recent controversy about Major Tom
Polk Edmundson has brought out much that
was not known before. The Dalton Argus has
this to say about the affair:
There is much in the period from which this con-
the which 1lnaS-
ant to dwell upon, and would, perhaps, have been
best forgotten Refreshened, however, they only
add pleasure in contemplating the attitude of Tom
Polk Edmundson to every defenseless person left in
the wake Of Sherman's march through this region.
The middle ages furnish no more torturous exist
cnce than suffered by old men, women and chill
dren of confederate sympathy, left in this section
after its abandonment by General Johnson. 1t is
perhaps matter of unwritten history, that SO
thoroughly teIrorized were these helpless people,
that brave and true men, who had never
Gnched in battle. were leaving the CON
federate army by scores, influenced by
the first law OF naturethe protection of wives,
theirs and sisters who were harassed by spies and
malicious infomers, under the guise Of federal sane
ton aHd patronage. At this juncturc number of
army officers detached from their regular COM
mands and sent TO northern Georgia to gather up
such men as had left the regular army, and were
still true to their allegiance, organize them into
regular bodies, and while atfording protection to the
people of the contederaey by keeping federal garri
sons within the narrow confines of their village
posts to also harass the supply trains and raiding
parties of Shermans rear MAJOR Edmondson served
in that capacity in this immediate field just as Cen
eral Wotiord did at Kingdom only that the duty Of
the latter further involved the return of men 10
their command, by voluntary consent after the
former, with others of like position had made it
safe for men to leave their homes again.
General Joseph w. Wheeler, now member
of congress from north Alabama. writes this
letter to the sister of Edmondson:
IN reply TO your kind favor of re ent date regard
ing the aspersion> upon the memory Of your broth
er Captain T. T. EdmondSon late of company F.
3rd Confederate cavalry beg to say that l can re-
call nothing connected with his services in the
corps which l commander that could afford the
slightest justification for stigmaising him. either as
a desperadO or dcserter. Captain Edm0ndson was
highly esteemed by his comrades and immediate
commanding officers, as by myself. a gallant and
mcritoIious officer, who uniformly displayed
marked bravery and efficiency in the discharge of
any duty entrusted TO him
Tie 81 roll OF company F, 3rd Confederate cav
airy, have been abe to find, is signed by r. p Ed
noudSon. as captain, and TINS iact, think should
OF Itself, suffice 10 rciutc thc charge OF desertion