The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-18
No FLAG BUT Old GLORY
No Bloody Shirt or Hatred of
Yankeed0m
LOOKING AT BATTLEFIELDS
Orce They Were Enemies, But Now
Comrades and Brothers
Rnterprising Chattanoogans Convince Visitors
That the rluch -Vaunted Southern
Hospitality Is Reality
LOOKING AT BATTLEFIELDS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. IT,
People are pouring into this region to-
night almost as thick and fast as they
did thirty-throe Years ago. But they are
not all mon this time and they are not
armed though some of the veterans
both Of the north and the south are at
tired in their old army regimentals.
Many of these old fellows have their
wives and children with them, and they
have been looking over the battlefield
where they fought SO tiercely thirty-three
years ago. No ono will ever know the
number of people that have come here
from all parts of the north and south.
General Boynten said today that the
visitors were strung along from Sherman
Heights to the far end OF Chickamauga.
All the hotels, inns, taverns and board
Ing houses are full and tbousanaS are
camping where they camped on the
night of the 18th OF Septic Der, 1868. The
passenger agent of the railway leading
to the Chickamauga battlefield today
said that his road had hauled not less
than 5000 people there today. This was
not nearly all who went out. Many went
out on the electric car lines and then
took carriages.
Chickamauga' s citizens have thrown tn o
town open to the visitors. and if any OF
them did at one time feel a hatred for
"Yankeedom it has long since died out.
Everything that human ingenuity could
devise for the comfort of the old soldiers
has been done by the enterprisIng dwell
ers in Chattanooga.
A good many governors came to the
fx11-
morning. The Ohio visitors made a
grand demonstration on the arrival OF
Governor Mckinley. He came from
Knoxville over the Southern road and
was met at the depot by the Ohio COM
mission with carriages, military band,
the Toledo cadets and the Fourteenth
regiment Ohio National guard. He was
escorted to the home of Hon. Clay Evans,
whose guest he Will be during his stay
here.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois. accom-
panied by AdjutantGeneral Orendorff.
his staff and the Illinois commission,
came in this afternoon from Chicago.
Governor Matthews, with his staff and
Colonel n. Walker, commander-in-ch chief
of the Grand Army of the Repablc. ar
rived this morning. Nlce-President Stew
enson and family came in late tonight
via the Cincinnati Southern railway and
proceeded Ut once By special train to their
the depot by the Second battalion and
Nashville battery of Tennessee National
guard. The arrangements for the dedica-
tion OF the battle field of Chickamauga
have been completed. Tomorrow's exer-
cises will be confined to the dedication of
the various state monuments and the
formal turning over of them to the ma
tional government.
The states that will dedicate their
monuments tomorrow are Illinois, Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indi-
ana Mississippi and Missouri.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland will meet in the morning at .
o'clock. Colonel J. d. Morgan of Illinois
will preside.
In honor Of the great historical events
which are to take place here the Chat
tanooga Times will issue three memorial
editions beginning tomorrow that will
contain over 100 newspaper pages. 1t
will contain a complete history of the
exercises and 100 illustrations. Among
the prominent people who have con-
trbuted to the enterprise are Generals
H. V. Boynton, W. S. Rosecrans, Charles
A. Dana and other notable survivors of
the war.