Telegram-herald., 1890-05-18
HESOCIETY COLUMN
lQUIET AID HAPPY PlRLOR WEDDING
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"Me spent several DAYS Ia Chat
t&nooga looking al the various points
of interest saic MRS. b a Coppens ~
s TKLHGKAA- -HEKAlD reporter yester-
day. by we ] mean Mr. Coupons
and myself. We visited the Naaonsl
Cemetery, where the Remains OF over
thirteen thousand Foaerals lie iE their
graves. The cemetery ls the Fzsndosf
place ] ever saw and one might almost
be willing 10 die and resi- there. Rlghf
from the gateway lies Lookout noun
tain envelOped IA hue hsze that a
wonderfully beautiful. The gateway
Is almost a monument IA itself and the
stone walls which nearly surround
the cemetery are covered With
English IVY. Just inside the wall,
about four feet from it, IL a
green hedge which completely hides
the grey stone Of ihe wall. Ia TIE Gen.
Ter ls al open raised space v "a columns
al each corner and these coiumnfAra
also covered with ivy. The steps lead-
lng Up a. q are grey stone. iu fact al
the stone around there i grey. Lookout
mountain beng composed Of it. II an
other part OF the city ls the COnfeder-
ate cemetery. il ls entirely neglected.
| The people are too poor 10 DO anything
toward beauufyne H. al even 90 Keep
Il ia order, but there BE- noN . move
nent Oh foot which may result .n maxi
ing change. A young man whose
father was killed Do thc battle ~ Look
out mountain Is trying ~ raise = fund
lfn. I'd "a. e.. q
the old hospital cemetery on tie
mountain. While making trips Ia the
mountains one often comes across The
old earthwoTks Just a. they were 10 the
time Of the war. Then, zoo, there are
many interesting places that the trap-
eler ordinarily would not eee. ! wac
there tour weeks aud the people would
tell me many "reminiscences OF
the waT ard would show
me many historic spots. One fam
lly directed me % what they called
Conscrpt Gully" 10 ls deep, shell
tered place, with h sort of cave on open
| ing ID The rocks After the Confe0er-
ates were forced ~ draft men, twenty
five or thirty who sympath,zec with the
North deserted and took refuge N The
gully. There they lived for weeks, for
aging by night and hiding bY day, watt
ing for q chance 10 escape g. tAe Union
lines. They suffered untold horrors.
bat finally most % them escaped. A
few were killed Balf way up the
mountain was the home Of the Cfavcns,
a historical spot They were lnion
| people, but the IniOn boys thought the
| place was tie Confederate headQuaT :
ters and from MissoD Ridge they seut
shells right Int9 the Little farm house,
| }. gos ir.f q. 4 d.. I
! Of the store house and the house was
completely demolished. The old stone
wall still stands 1ust as ID was then, hut
a new house hat been built upon tie
site Of the old one. and there Mrs. Cra-
ven lives today with her sister-tWo Old
ladies. Mr. Craven d eo about sis years
ago. They work tae farm, which -
manly devoted 30 fruit
- spent sil my time sketchiuF about
the mountains. Many DAYS were rainy.
While sl1etcbIug the mountalE one osy
glanced up and saw netting buf
clouds The mountain bad entirely
disappeared. ln another moment one
q those dreadful sudden storms has
burst upon me.
"It r. perfectly wonderful - see the
way the colored women carry then
wasrlngs pine mounta nfto tne springs.
| NeN Walk alDuk EANN tliAiha VIII iih-
mense baskets of F0led clothes on their
heads. There b. an occasional graceful
motion OF the arms b. balance the has
kct. Their carriage is striEnEiy erect
and graceful. IhCy never wash any
| thing u their cabins. EVerg thing is
taken up q the mountain fpungs.
"As o. the -outhCTuers. j never met
| plesssntcr people ln my life. ] met
very lovely women. most of them being
/ refined and mDii gent boarded iu a
historical spot near thc scene whore the
novel st. Elmo was laid. While sketcb-
/ ing On t1e mountain ] boarded ~ there
- save needless ps.
Although nay TIP was ulost u-l-
expected one. j wouldn't have mF -
IS Tor any thing One thing seemed -
! queer 70 me. About three wears ago
/ lady tins city brought me aD old
photograph e q scene ou Lookout
mountain. % had belonged 80 ber
/ father who Was killed ina the hattie.
/ She wished Che picture put On canvas
/ and enlarged. ] did the WORK Tor Der.
and when Mr. Coppeus and J vsfe
| roam nF down the Georra SIDE 0f ihe
mouuta p We came 80 Lake lalu and
/ there before us IaY fae Scene ~ the old
1 photograph. We botu recognized Il st