The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
4 WAR TRAGEDY.

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A war story today. Something about north
! Alabama and Fort Delaware. a fascinating
subiect always, iii spite of the years since APP
! pomat;oX. story told by brilliant fellow,
| who tells story well. He said:
/ If you have never been in the valley of the
Icnnessee-i mean that part of the famous
! valley that stretches southwestward from the
! great Sand mountain to the picturesque table
lands of Monte Sano, you have missed scene
the fairest OF all in that country of far scenes
| viii not attempt to describe it. | cannot do
4 1t justice. No one can. 1t is the paradise of
north Alabama, and in the heart of that far
southern district devastated by war. and vet,
| thanks TO its protecting bulWarl OF mountains,
/ its pleasant homes and woll-tlled lands cs-
| capped almost unscathed
Not many miles to the north is lookout
mountain and the baItlefelds of Mission Ridge
! and Chickamauga. Farther to the south and
| west. and on the same great trunk line that
| passes within the shadow OF the heights ON
| which Hooker fought his battle in the clouds"
| is that already famous young city of phenom-
! email growth, Decatur, and beyond that, tho
new Sheffield and warscarred Corinth
! But while this corner of the great valley saw
little of either blue coats OF gray-except, per-
haps, an occasional foraging party that chance
led away from the railroad and into the garden
land between the big hills. the valley gave its
best blood for the cause of the confederacy,
and sons and brothers lett the cotton unpiclled
in the field TO Join Bragg and his gathering
hosts across the border-lne OF Tennessee, or to
follow the fortunes OF Morgan or Stuart Oh
their cavalry raids To tie north
lack from the Tennessee, in Il cove pro-
Monte Sane . horIy rntnt,i, forn,n" 1d
bnilt n honsc Of lnc,t ato"n' a" ~ "
hest hnf home for t,o s,iIe of ,ihot ,pas ~
Tzyas mot n tvnic,l5 eonthorn hnn,o T" = ~
oood wife and mother ,,.,s honeol, can,, ioi,
m.id ana ,yordnncr olI IA, ana ,yh! H. a. 800 ~
str,nnin~ b0I.s win theip rathcr did tbn wi
HAT ON other pantntions fell to thn taSlS IF the
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! knew perhaDs no ono elsr ma Ir,nr L"f,
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| Now thev are III coIoncIs Sn lew, nri,iatcs
| escaned HE war
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| The great valley WAS at lasf awakened 10 The
| hor,.nrs or ,yar rerr,itipa ott;re - n,o,,nd
| ri Unntsvilie Ton pile. AMY IN tha loti,nr
! side az Monte Sailo and busbS,fs .,,J f,ti'nre
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