The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-09-19
VETERANS OF THE NORTH AND
SOUTH WILL AGAIN MEET
AT CHATTANOOGA.
MANY OF THE NOTABLES HAVE
ARRIVED.
Vice President Stevenson and Family
Are CHARTERED at Lookout lnn-An
Ovation to Neutrality-suspicious.
Viewing the Battle Fields.


most as thick and fast as they did thirty
three years ago. But they are not all
men this time and they are not armed,
though some of the veterans both of the
North and of the South are attired i'll
their old army regimentais.
Many of these old fellows have their
wives and children with them and they
have been looking over the battle field
where they fought so tiercely thirty-three
years ago.
No one will ever know the number of
people that have come here from all parts
of the North and South.
General Boynton said today that the
visitors were strung along from Sherman
Heights to the far end of Chickamauga.
All the hotels, inns. taverns and boarding
houses are full and thousands are camp
ing where they camped on the nights of
September, 1868. The passenger agent
of the railway leading to Chickamauga
battle field said his road had not hauled
less than 5000 people there today. This
was not all who went. Many went out
| on the electric car lines and then took
carriages. Chickamauga's citizens have
thrown the town open to the visitors and
| if any of them did at one time feel Il
hatred for "Yankeedom" it has long since
died out. Everything that human in
genuity could devise for the comfort of
the old soldiers has been done by the
enterprising dwellers in Chattanooga.
A good many governors came into the
city today and more will follow tomor-
row. This evening visitors made grand
| demonstration upon the arrival of Gov
ernor Mckinley. He came in from
Knoxville over the Southern road, and
was met at the depot by the Ohio COM
mission, carriages, a military band, the
Toledo cadets and the Fourteenth regi-
ment of the Ohio National Guard. He
was escorted to the home of Hon. III.
Clay Evans, whose guest he will be dur
ing his stay here.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois, accompa-
MED by Adjutant General Crendorff, his
| staff and the Illinois commission, came in
this afternoon from Chicago.
Governor Matthews, with his staff and
COl. N. N. Walker, COMMUNICATIVE chief
of the q. A. r., arrived this morning.
Vice President Stevenson and family
came in late tonight and proceeded at
once by special train to their quarters
at Lookout Inn. He was met at tbe
depot by the Second battalion and Nash
vile battery of the Tennessee National
Guard.
Governor and Mrs. Morton of New
York, with the governors staff, are due TO
arrive on special car tomorrow morn
ing.
The park that is to be dedicated is Of
unusual dimensions. 1t extends, with
ITS approaches. from Sherman Heights
| in Tennessee, six miles north of Chatto.
nooga, to Glass Mill, in Georgia. n dis.
lance of % miles. The broad boulevard
between these two points is owned in
fee simple by the government as part of
the park and full jurisdiction over many
miles of territory has been coded to Inc
government by the States of Tennessee
and Georgia. This central drive rms
for eight miles along Bragg's line OF
battle on the crest of Missionary Ridge
1t passes along Shermans army, Thomas
army of the Cumberland, the army under
Hooker. 1t overlooks all the battle
fields about Chattanooga, including
Lookout mountain, and runs for ~ mile,
through the center of the fighting
grounds of the three days fighting OF
Chickamauga.
Of the territory over which Jurisdiction
has been coded for park purposes. ter
square miles have already been purcha Sod
in single block. Chickamauga field
The entire crest about Bragg's head
quarters on Missionary Ridge; Orchard
Knob, the headquarters of Grant. Thorn.
as and Granger during the battle of
Chattanooga, a tract eight acres in ex.
tent; 80 acres at the north end of Mis-.
sionary Ridge being the ground as.
saulted by General Sherman and de-
Tended by Cleburne; and tract of five
acres on another portion of the ridge
marking the left of the assault of the
army of the Cumberland. Congress has
also authorized the addition to the park
of Hooker's and Walthalrs battle ground
on Lookout mountain. The government
already owns the roads to and over
Lookout mountain through Hooker's
field to Wahatchie. on Longstreet's field
The park and its approaches. there.
fore, embrace or overlook the fields of
five days of general battle between great
armies and three days of minor on.
fragments, namely: Chickamauga, Or.
lhard Knob. Lookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge; Browns Ferry and
Wahatchie.
The plan of the park is to restore the
fields as nearly as possible to their con.
1ition at the time of the battle, to close
t'ii bh' NV lpttNlS anu olCh lhOHc uSCb
in battle. The lines of the battle have
been all ascertained and a vast amount
of work towards parking them has be
gun. 1t is accomplished by guide ia
hles which point the way to and eX
plain the movements upon every por
ton of the lines. These tablets show
the organization of the armies, corps, di
visions and brigades, with the names OF
their respective commanders and theil
staffs on the field and the commander OF
all regiments and battles. Full histori
cal text on each tablet sets forth the de-
tails of the movement at each point
There is no distinction i'll the prepare.
ton of these tablets but the Union and
Confederate forces, nor in any other de.
partment of the work of establishing
the park is there any difference. The OBJ,
iect is to mark the identical ground of
engagements which occurred on these
fields and thus present an object lesson
in actual war, such as no other nation
has attempted.
Besides the historical tablets. which
are prepared by the government, the
States are erecting monuments to mark
the position of their troops. Already near
" half a million dollars have been ap-
propriated by States which had troops
here and all of the States but two of the
% which were represented in the battles
have commissioners at work locating
positions for monuments. There are
nearly q hundred miles of road onaned