Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-28

the trees to partake of the repast. Jas
per and Newton suddenly sprang from
their hiding place, and Selling the guns,
shot down the two Sentinels. By threats
and intimidation the other six soldiers
abandoned all efforts to regain their
guns, and were constrained to surrender.
The gpring has been known ever since
as Jasper Spring, and is naturally
locality of great interest.
He subsequently lost his life in the
siege of Savannah by the allied forces
of America and France, under Gen. Lin
coin and Count D. Estaing, while essay
ing to replace his regimental colors
within the lines of the British, where
they had been carried by an assault.
The remains of TOma Chi Chi, the
renowned Indian chief, are supposed
to have been buried somewhere in
courthouse square. He was Laid to
rest with all the honors and pomps be-
fitting his station and the friendship
he evinced for the colonists, among
whom he had passed his life. Ogle-
thorpe himself acted as pall-bearer.
Nor is Savannah without interest in
later DAYS, where the defenses, thrown
up and Installed during the civil war,
still remain, save where they have
yielded to the encroachments of the
city's expansion. The exterior line Of
defense, stretched from Cranston's
nah, to the Ogeechee River, taking in
within its extent Greenwich Park,
Thunderbolt, Isle of Hope,s and Beau
lieu. This was instituted to ward of
an attack of the United States navy,
and to prevent the landing Of troops.
There were, also, a number of river
batteries, of which Fort Barton was
| the most important. It was Fashioned
with an inclosed area of seventeen
| acres, with bOmb-prOofs, moat, glacis,
and advanced batteries in the front,
with rifle pits near the water. This
fertilization is now in ruins, overgrown
with trees and bushes. Then there was
! Fort McAllister, which, more from it's
eligibility of location, on a bank of the
| Ogeechee River, at Genesis Point, than
| from any invulnerability from its
strength or massive proportions, for it
| was merely an earthwork, although
| with heavy armament, which made SO
| many gallant and successful defenses
! against the Government irOn-clads and
| Gen. Sherman's Corps, from the land
! side. Fort Boggs, and other fOrtifica-
| tions might be mentioned, but Fort
| Pulaski, named in honor of Gen. Pu-
| laski, at the entrance to the harbor, on
| Cockspur Island, fourteen miles from
| the city, is the most prominent, because
| of its siege and capture during the civil
war 1t cost over a million of dollars,
| and was sixteen years in process of con-
! struction. This fort was occupied by
/ the Georgia soIdiery early in 1861, and
was only evacuated after the capture of
Tybee Island and the approach of the
| Federal batteries. The details of its
l-spirited defense by the Confederates are
| a portion of the history of the INTERIM
cine struggle that dragged its bloody
trail along the interval between 1861
| and 1865. Three miles below the city is
Fort Oglethorpe, formerly Fort Jack
son, built in 1903, and occupied during
the war of 1925, since which date it
has been reconstructed, and forms a
salient factor in the river defenses o.
| tho oitv