Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-01-23

your trunk, therefore, with many
others, has been taken to shed
several miles from the station for lack
of room.
But you have not seen the last Of 1t. In
day or two it comes moseying IN from
its temporary sojourn in the country
and you are changed quarter for the
round trip. All this may not be south
ern but it is queer and We called it
southern.
As the first steps toward seeing this
city and country,w we interviewed one Of a
line of vociferous cab drivers as to rates.
Five dollars per hour" was the lnsinua-
ting answer but upon our intimatlng
that We would prefer to pay two dollars
day the ebony cabby became even more
engaglngly hospitable and accepting our
suggestion with alacrity uubuttoned the
curtain of his Garage just far enough to
thrust US through one by one and head
foremost into ramshackle old vehicle
that must surely have escaped Sherman'e .
eagle eye at the burning of Atlanta.
Indeed it had such an appearance of
having gone through fire and water that
we thought Noah might have lent q
hand at preserving it as we'll as Sherman.
BY dlnt OF much questioning We
succeeded in getting at q few character
istic facts and scenes through our driver.
He took US many long, cold miles at the
end of which he stopped with "voilR"
expression and gesture before some un-
interesting looking weeds, by name cot.
ton. They were attached evidently to 9
tumble down hut upon which We pressed
the button SO that it now has a place
among our souvenirs, under the proud
title Georgian Plantation" We were
quite frozen by the time we had seen
the "Plantation" and willing to let 1t 90
at that. But our driver, now thoroughly
aroused and intent upon working by the
day if be was to be paid by the day, took
US on will or nil, to see new Fort Nc
Pherson, and old Fort MCPHERSON,
when, remembering that General Nc
Pherson was killed near Atlanta, we
imagined some connection and felt bis
torical thrills though as far as any real
connection is concerned l believe that
we might as we'll have looked at Fort
Yates.
Somewhat more authentic was the
Leyden house which we saw the next
day. This is q grand old house,
on Atlanta's finest avenue and was
Sherman's headquarters in GA and oH
that account spared.
But artificial enthusiasm left off and
real breathless interest began as We
started north by way of the old IN. and
A +" railroad. This road was the only
and essential route of supplies to the
army during the southern campaigns and
rs hol faH
every foot OF 1t. Resaca, Allatoona,
kenesaw mountain; what desperate
struggles went on here, as first one army
then the other lost and gained possess.
ion this road. Our car fairly teemed
with war "reminiscences. and illusions,
but 40 we passed Kenesaw mountain
there was a silence. We we're thinking,
not talking, OF this wonderful battle
fought on its heights during the marvel
GUS defensive campaign maintained by
Johnston against Sherman and his over
powering numbers. We could eaeily see
how this mountain commanded q large
tract of country including the all import
ant railroad, while we rememb mbered how
General Johnston accomplished the i'm
possible in hauling the heavy guns up it's
steep sides ono dark night; how his men
lay in their hastily made fortifca-
tlons and waited the dawn and the at
tacking foe, waited until this foe, conf
dent in their greater numbers, were at
the muzzles OF their guns. Then they
fred and the line Of the federal army
went down to q man, many never to rise
again, some to spring up and engage in
hand to hand encounter. So near had
the hidden army allowed their foes to
advance unmolested, that at the end of
the battle the dead we're found to have
fallen upon the very breastworks of the
enemy.
But the especial interest Of this battle
lies in the striking evidence it gives that
men are still men, though they fight
like beasts. In the midst Of this terrible
carnage the burning gun wads set the
woods afre. The flames had extended
to the dead and wounded of the Union
army when the Confederate commander
called upon his men to cease firing and
himself aided the Unionis:s IN rescuing
their dead and wounded from the
flames. This done, the command to be-
gin battle was given, and the soldiers
who had been humanely caring for their
suffering brothers, re-began their slaugh-
ter.
One other incident makes this noun
tain peculiarly interesting. 1t was
from it's height, somewhat later, when
Sherman was IN possession, that he sig
nailed to detachment of his army at
Allatoona: Hold the fort, for am
coming" NJ. w.
One Minute Cough Cure touches the
right spot. 1t also touches it at the
right time if you take 1t when you have
q cough o. cold. See the point? Then
don't cough. Baldwin Bros.
No Heart and Hand
To the Alert: Not receiving my week
ly of Jan. 16 until last night I knew
nothing OF the free advertising my wife
and I received IN weekly and daily OF