The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-08-05
a Visit in the South.


Below we publish an interesting let
ter received by Mrs. w. b. Sayile from
her mother, Mrs. NJ. II. Taylor, who is
at present visiting points of interest in
the SOUTH
Paragould, Ark, July 80. 1898.
Dear May
| sent you postal card
from Atlanta, and hope you got it.
Auntie and | went with Captain Glass.
cocks family to the Confederate re-
union and we enjoyed the sights inn
mensely. Out at Grants Park VIC saw
Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta,
and there were soldiers present who
had fought in the battle. Some of
them were minus an arm, and many
had not only an empty sleeve, but II
wooden leg also. The parade did not
come until Friday at O'Clock so we
had to stay longer than we at first ex-
pected to. 1t rained in torrents, but
the poor fellows stood it bravely, the
water slushing out of the tops of their
boots. General Gordon sat on his horse
in his bare head through it all and al
though offered umbrellas he refused
to take one We went to the Expo
siton grounds where the Re union was
held and Miss Winnie DAVIS, daughter
of JEFF. Days, was presented. She
came from her home in Alabama in
special car. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
and Mrs. Hobson were also in the city,
but | did not see them. Atlanta is the
most beautiful city | eyer saw and the
climate is much nicer than that of Ar
kansas or Tennessee. The breeze from
the Ocean on the east, and the Gulf on
the west keeps circulation Of air con-
stantly and the nights are always cool.
The Georgians are very much like Eng
| lish people. They use black tea in
stead of coffee and they have fried
chicken every meal. Everybody keeps
chickens and the first sounds heard in
the morning were the roosters getting
ready to be fried. The soil of Georgia
| is the color of red brick and nothing
would grow on it up north but here it
| produces immense crops of corn and
cotton and watermelons. We went to
Fort Mcpherson where there is an en-
campment of soldiers. We saw the
wounded soldiers who were returned
from Santiago and the sixteen Spanish
prisoners, but we did not see the five
| spies as we were too tired to walk out
where they were. We saw one poor
fellow who had got shot from a Maui
ser gun. His case was pretty bad one.
We stopped off at Chattanooga and
visited the park where 10000 men are
encamped. Captain Glasscock Is a
| Confederate soldier, and we were all
invited to dinner IN the officers quar-
tiers. We saw Bloody Pond where there
were so many killed that the ground
was washed with blood and the water
in the pond was red and thick. Hun
dreds of trees were bullet SCARED and
every foot of ground we drove over
had been covered with the battle of
Chickamauga. We next visited Look
out mountain going up No. and No. 2
inclines. We were on the way back at
head of No. incline and had a photo
of our group. l will send it.when ii
comes. We then went up on Mission
airy Ridge where General Bragg's head
quarters were and where Grant order
ed his men to climb the hill. The Con-
federates held the brow of the Ridge
and as the Yankees formed in line the
Rebels would NOW them down,
but reinforcement after reinforcement
brought them n little nearer with each
charge and when Grants men had
gained about one half of the Ridge,
the Confederates' ammunition gave
out and they had nothing but the
stones that lay on the ground. But
one old soldier told me "they pelted
the Yankees good with them" lie
said they aimed straight for their faces
aud they hit and laid them out every
times Mrs. NJ. II. Taylor.
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