Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-20
COMMISSION FILES
CHIGKA MAUI CA
PARK REPORT
DETAILED INFORMATION OF I'M.
PRovEMENTs AND CONDITIONS
IN MILITARY RESERVE
ARE GIVEN.

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Jan. 1s.-The
annual report Of the Chickamauga-Chat-
tanooga National Military Park Commits
sion to the secretary of war is just made
public. The report. in part, says:
il 1t appears from the report thet We
have now 71,36 miles of improved roads In
the park There has been expended for
road construction and betterments, S11s-
O77.57, which includes the laying of nearly
four miles of standard paved guttering,
the building of 80 head walls with ham
mered stone coping, the hauling and
spreading of 6,0o4 cubic yards of gravel.
the construction of forty-two stone cul-
verts. and the laying Of 1T,1O0 square feet
of stone revetment.
The only road construction, besides that
heretofore ordered and specified above,
which the commission desires, with your
approval, to build. during the coming
year, is the road from Rossville to Nc
Farland's Gap. distance of.2.5 miles. be-
ing the road over which the union army
withdrew from the Chickamauga field to
Rossville, at the close Of the fighting the
evening OF the second day.
The central driveway of the park which
passes through, or overlooks six Of the
seven battlehelds embraced in the park
project, is, by the finishing OF the La
fayette road extension. now complete. It
is 30 miles long, and reaches from General
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Missionary Ridge. along the eight miles
of General Bragg's line of battle on that
ridge, through the centre OF the Chicka@l
manga field, and the thirteen miles be-
yond it. over the theatre Of General
Bragg's movements between his with
drawal from Chattanooga and his subse-.
Quent movements previous to the battle
OF Chickamauga.
The health Of the ten square miles COM
prising the Chickamauga Park has been
excellent as has been that of the adjacent
region for several miles in all directions
around the park There has been no
death within its boundaries, and only one
case of typhoid and two of malarial fe-
yer, all in one family, and all traced to
the pollution of well, caused by drain.
age from barn and house seeping into IL.
These cases were mile from the park.
The water supply in all sections of the
park continues abundant and excellent.
The attention Of the secretary is very
reluctantly called TO the mutilation of the
official rosters Of this commission in the
report OF tAe Indiana commissioners for
the Chickamauga National Military Park.
In the published report of that cSmmis-
sion there Is included, what purports to
be a transcript of the official roster of the
Union and Confederate armies as pub
lished by the national commission. An
examination shows various serious cham
BeSfln the reproduction OF TINS OInclal doc
ument, arising in part through omission
of certain clauses in the text, in part
from direct changes, and in part by in
terpolations. each Of these perpetuating
erroneous history and doing 1t under guise
of the authority of this commission. This
column also contains quite a number Of
erroneous transcripts of authorized In
scriptions on Indian monuments and
markers, as they appear ON thef- field
This misuse OF official documents and IN
scriptions is the more to be regretted
since 1t must discredit a volume which
shows much excellent and valuable work.