The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-30

Findlay, o., some years ago, but letter
addressed to him there was returned to the
writer.
Dick was bright bay horse with black
name and tail, of medium size, COM
pactly built, and was all that could be de-
sired as n war horse, and having such 3
history no wonder his owners were 10th to
part with him.
The visit to Kennesaw recalled all these
events, and also many others not mentioned.
Onr party took survey of Lost Mountain,
Pine Top, Alatoona, Brush Mountain, Vim
ing's Hill, Marietta, and other places, ana
with deep regrets left the mountain.
Serg't Marcy, Secretary of Signal Corps
Association, said as we left, and after he
had taken good look at all the clrcum-
stances, that he regarded the signal mes
sages sent by Sherman to Corse at Rome as
the most important of all messages sent by
signals during the war.
If we had lost Allatoona and the stores,
Sherman could not have marched to the sea
for at least weeks afterwards, and failing to
do so, the Confederacy would have been
recognized by England and France, besides
the effect on the elections in the North held
during the month of October, 1864.
Leaving the mountain, we visited the
American Marble Cutting Company's fac
tory, and saw some fine specimens OF marble
cut from the native quarries located some
so miles distant; and then we visited the
National Cemetery at Marietta, located
most beautifully east of the town. In its
sacred Enclosure sleep In peace the remains
of 10,164 heroes who wore the blue and
loved the starry flag, and who to defend 1T
fell in the deadly assaults on Kennesaw and
other places, or mangled and torn were
carried to some of the hospitals and there
offered their lives, or were stricken with
disease incurred from exposure in the terri
BILE campaign, suffered with pain or burned
with fever, answered their last roll-call.
'' Rest on, embalmed and sainted deadi
Dear as the blood you gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave.
"Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fnme her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Yalor proudly sleeps"
Returning to Marietta, Comrades Marcy,
Kelly, and myself were taken by Mr.. JAS
l.. Sibley to a photographer and were photo
graphed, Kelly holding the fieldglass, Marcy
the cipher message, and all holding the old
Signal flag.
In this beautiful town we find many
places of interest. The Kennesaw House
of war days was burned, and now the KeDne-
saw House stands near the railroad. The
building used 10y Gen. McArther as Head
quarters still sands. Here we met num-
Der of G.. A. r. men and their families with
the Gen. Stebbs party from Chicago, H.,
making visit TO the battlefields of TeDnes-
see and Georgia in a special train of Pull
mans, and among the number were DR.. Mur-
dock and wife. of Chicago, who were personal
and religious friends of Prof. =. Z. Bliss,
and heard Prof Bliss first sing the song he
wrote, "Hold the Fort" and when Bliss
lost his life in the railroad disaster at Ash
tabula Bridge, and his body was burned al
most beyond recognition, DIR. Murd0ck iden-
titled the body by an imperfectly reduced
fracture of one of Blss's arms.
Another comIade who was in the battle
with Gen. Corse at Allatooua, and who was
much interested, and asked some questions
about the message, etc, and whom we met
afterwards in F0lsOm's dining rooms in
Atlanta, will confer favor by writing to
me his name and address.
At last we are off to Atlanta, but it is
night and nothing is seen. In the depot IN
Atlanta Comrade John Hastings met our
party ana cOOUuCIctl US 10 IUUIlS he Ddl Sc
cured. We spent two days in Atlanta; but
nearly all is new failed to see one landmark
known in 1864; visited the spot where Gen.
Mcpherson fell, near the Decatur road, July
90. 1864, also Grant Park, in which Is Fort
Walker, Confederate fort, used in the de-
fense of Atlanta. Most of our old lines are
now occupied by the new city. The home
of Gen. j. B. Gordon now stands where the
Howard House, Gen. Sherman's Head
quarters, stood then. The Kimball House
stands near the railroad depot where the
front House stood.
Our party met many Confederates, all of
whom were exceedingly friendly and hospi-
table. In all cities they have their Camps
of Confederate Veterans; their badge is
their old battleaag reduced to about one
inch.
One Of them in n conversation told us of
the great regret that soon all places OF in-
terest in Atlanta would be gone, so far as
the battles and siege were concerned, and
that their Camp of Confederate Veterans, st
recent meeting, had made arrangements
TO mark in permanent manner the hlstor-