The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-19
A SUMNER In VIRGINIA.
wANDRRINGs OF AFLoRIDA LADY
OVER WELL KNOWN PLACES.

Hard Fought Battles Recalled on
Top of Lookout Mountain - Other
Matters Of General Interest.
HARR1soNBURG, VA, Sept. 14-Sinco
1891 the dream Of my life has been to go to
Virginia. Then wanted To come to be near
to ''our boys" to help nurse the sick and
care for the wounded. But home ties and
home duties prevented. Through all those
long, long, dreary days of war how we
longed, looked and waited for news from
Virginia until the end came, when, heart
sick and in despair, we waited the home
coming Of the brave and gallant few
brothers all; then TO take up the dull routine
of daily toll while trying to be brave and
hopeful, still turning to Virginia with sch-
ing heart aud burning eyes. II only we
could 20 and walk over the roads
their weary feet had 40 Gifted trsmped,
visit the battle fields made glorious by
their valor, drink from the streams which
had quenchsd their thirst, pluck a flower
| enriched by their blood. aud stand at last
beside their hOnored graves. Our lot for
bade. No time now for vain regrets. Let
| the dead past bury its dead !" was watch
word and reply. Homes desolated, property
| gone. Up and to work. The women Of the
south must still suffer aud be strong. They
| must not fslter now. No time for even the
weary soldiers to rest, though their star OF
| hope had gone down at Appomattox. But
! the waste places must be reclaimed. The
! children's cry for bread must be needed,
/ and wife, mother and sister must help hus-
| band, son and brother. And so the years
rolled on until smiling peace and plenty
| bless a new and prosperous south. The
| struggle over, failing health brings leisure
and opportunity and our dream has
| its ful1llment, and we bid adieu
| to friends in Florida for
| q summer in Virginia to drink Of her far
famed mineral waters aud visit some at
least Of the battle fields of the confederacy.
| Leaving Jacksonville at night we saw
| nothing Of Georgia until we reached At
lanta. The only interest which the city
| possessed was the recollection of its hard
fought battles. but looked in vain for old
| earth works or relics of the struggle All
was business, hustle and hurry in which its
prosperity was manifest as we'll as In its
numerous mills and manufactures Of Yari-
GUS kinds.
Travelling by the East Tennessee, Vir-
Einia and Georgia line we passed success
sion through Rome and Dalton, both like At
lanta interesting because their soil had been
watered by the blood of southern heroes.
The Kennesaw mountains now attracted our
attentions, remembering the repulse Of
Hood on June %, 1864 and the subsequent
greater defeat of Sherman at Great
Kennesaw on June q, when
the hopes of the south were revived and
we prayed that Sherman might be stayed
And looking back now, we say: "If only
Johnston had been left in commaHdm But
the ''if" stands in the way and grows until
it assumes such huge proportions as to for
ever shut out the beeps, and
| looking out over tho green hillside and
smiling valley we And nothing in sympa-
| thy with our mood, 80 close our eyes to
keep back the tears which will come when
we think Of the dead heroes whose blood was
| split for nAught At OhiokamaugR we
confess to a feeling Of satisfaction almost
akin to revenge, as we thought Of BragS's.
| Johnston's and Longstreet's victory Of Sept.
| 10, 1853.
At Chattanooga we rested, IL riding
around the city and ascending Lookout
mountain can be called resting. How
many Of your readers, wonder, have gone
up Lookout mountain in a cable car
Many no doubt. But as many more have
not.
Well, to us it was blood-chilling expert.
enee. There Is railroad winding around
and up the mountains by which one can 20
by steam car. But we we're not told OF
this, aud supposed the cable car the only
face downward. In other words, we 20
backward up the mountain, for obviou,
reasons. IAN aboard" ,oalls the conductor
aud we COUP, up, up-in an almost per-
, pendicular line, at q whiEzlng rate Beneath
us rocks and oaverns fee away. What Il
the cable should breakl 1t did 50 once anC
several we're killed and wounded How
= many escaped instant death is mystery
But up we go with whiz, and whire-e-e
No time for ifs now. Just hold on to YOU
nerves as best you can, while grasping thu
back OF the seat In front of you
and do like the old lady whose
, team ran away down hilI-trus
| Summit house" calls the conductor, anC
r we step out on to the broad piazza Of tn,
{ summit house." which Is q fine hotel, and
3 / am told, one Of the best kept in the coun
I | try. IL certainly is remarkable structure
|. with Its broad firmly built balconies reach
Q ing far out over the mountain side and over
8 | hanging a spur descent Of Thousands OF feet
/, AS we walked around and viewed 1t from
8 all sides we thought more Of the daring o
the mechanics who built IL than Of the en-
terprise Of its pro jectors.
TO add to our nervousness, we saw sew
eral men sitting on the banister and smok
, | ing as carelessly as il on level ground. |
seemed nothing less th n fool-hardy. 1t Gel
| tainly was not fear, for shere was no neces
sity for it. A little attack of faintness @
vertigo, to which all are liable at timei
| would have meant instant death
a and they would scare ly have dc
served sympathy. But we soon forge
them in gazing at the magnificent pane
: rama which is absolutely beyond descril
! tion. Missionary Ridge interested us mos
its precipitous sides and commanding posi-
ton and hight; and. we looked and wor
dered how it ever could have been taken
and the more we looked the more the won
= der grew, till we turned away hsartsick a
. at the memory of the bloody battles OF Nov
% and 25, 1858. Time is up. Shall we de
4 scend by the cable Car or by the slower an
: safer trains Well, it is growing dark, an
. we must get back Cd the Reed house TO
supper, so we decide to trust providenc
again and start down the mountain, face
foremost this time, taking In all the beauty
all tho grandeur and all the ewfulness Il
; wild-eye stare, while we set our teeth t
y keep In the long breath which we drew a
; we took our seats for the downwar
rush. After a good rest at gu
splendid hotel we are of for Virginia, sti
= travelling by the East Tennessee and Win
= ginia route, which we were told was th
70 best, and It certainly cannot be surpassed
As we left Chattanooga az night we say
nothing OF the country through which W
passed until we reached Bristol Here W
r find ourselves in a beautiful city in tn
v"lley between the Alleghenies and Blu
Ridge. Mountains TO the right OF US
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