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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21

Up to date, they have played ten games on this trip, winning four and losing six. Four more are to be played, and it is possible to break even.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21

Dartmouth Won Meet. Boston, May 1s-Dartmouth won the New England intercollegiate track meet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21

breaking crowd at National League Park today the leaders defeated the Champions in their first clash of the chic9go de9e o!. .e.. .oo2 o51 o2.-lo i4 Q New York 003 900 001-- 1 Batteries-Lungdren and Kling; Ames and RnW arman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21
A FEW FOUL TIPS.

The New York Giants have struck something quick and devilish on this Western trip of theirs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21

Cincinnati. May 2O-Brooklyn played this afternoon. Score: A H. E. Cincinnati, ..2O1 321 11s-11 14 l Brooklyn -. loo 900 900 II 3
 Batteries--Weimer and Schlel; Scan Carpenter and Conway.
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The National tribune., 1906-10-25

the Union lines, but not until his cav
airy had assured him that the Yankees
had Withdrawn to Chattan ooga. and it
was not until Wednesday, Sept. %, that
his infantry began to come at all into
touch with that of the Union army in
its new position. Bragg believed that
Thomas was still on Mission Ridge,
and sent forward his cavalry and two
infantry divisions to make a reconn ois-
sance. LOngstreet gathered together
his Left Wing and moved up the road
from the Red House; Breckinridgc,
preceded by Forrest, pushed on 10
Rossville to find it cleared of Union
troops. Wheeler swept around into the
Chattanooga Valley, and descended il
until he was stopped by Mitchell's Cav
airy, about a mile from the works into
which Thomas had withdrawn. Cheat
ham started out from Chickamauga
Station with his division and encoun-
tered Minty's Brigade of cavalry, who
made an annoying resistance before al
lowing him to reach Mission Ridge, and
Cheatham was at last compelled to de.
ploy all of his division to drive the i'm
pudent cavalry back Forrest pushed
over across the valley to the foot of
Lookout Mountain. and was followed
by McLaw's Division.
During Wednesday. Sept. %, Long
street brought up his whole Left Wing
to occupy the valley between Mission
Ridge and Lookout Mountain, while
Polk aligned his Right Wing on the
crest OF Mission Ridge. The works in
which the Union troops had establish
ed themselves reached in a Semicirclc
from Citico Creek above Chattanooga,
around in front IF the town of Chatta-
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photo
nooga by zigzag road up a gulch.
There is no other way of ascending
Look out Mountain from the east for
25 or 80 miles. The first practicable
ascent is from the head of Chattanooga
Valley. at Stevens's Gap. On the west
side of the mountain there are but one
or two practicable ascents. the roads
from these leading to Summertown,
where they could be controlled by
small force.
After passing thru the narrow gap
between Lookout Mountain and Moe
casin Point the Tennessee River turns
rather sharply to the northwest to find
a gap between Raccoon Mountain and
Walden's Ridge. 1t makes a long loop,
curving at one place into Raccoon
Mountain. and finally coming out into
the more open country at Bridgeport.
on the far side of the river. Bridge
port thus became the base from which
Chattanooga had to be supplied by the
railroad t. Nashville.
So firm is the enduring granite of
those mountains that the erosion OF
the foods of countless ages has cut but
a narrow channel in it. The long
curves of the river between Chatta-
nooga and Bridgeport We're so con-
stricted that the water at all times
rushed thru with great force and when
the water was high the impetuosity of
the current was so great that the most
powerful engines of the steamboats,
could not make head against it, and
had to be "cordeled" upstream by
means of ropes and windlasses. Steam
boatmen called the worst of these con-
strictions the Suck" "Pot" and
Skillet" A wagon road gan from
Chattanooga south of the river and
around the nose of Lookout Mountain.
following mainly the course of the rail-
- prt1 w IN,
the north of the river a good wagon
road ran out to the northwest. crossed
over Moccasin Point at Browns Ferry,
few miles below Lookout Mountain.
and then cut across the country thru
the gap in Raccoon Mountain to Kel
ley's Ferry. some distance above
Bridgeport This road was a much
used one, as it avoided the perils and
difficulties of navigation in the con-
stricted portion of the stream, where ii
passes between Raccoon Mountain and
Walden's Ridge. These places will be-
come of much Importance in the fu
ture. SO the readers careful attention
is invited to this description.
Another road, starting out across the
river from Chattanooga, ran beyond
that of Browns Ferry. and taking ad-
vantage of the small shelf of ground at
the foot of Walden's Ridge, followed
the north bank of the river t. Kelly's
fCrTy ana tneice 10 Jasper anu fSTIuSe-
port. The only other road made long
circuit with the rugged climb over Wal
den's Ridge, and took 60 miles to reach
Bridgeport.
When Rosecrans abandoned Sum-
mertown and the control Of Lookout
Mountain he yielded to the enemy the
possession of the wagon road and rail-
road across the nose of Lookout Noun
tain, the road running from Browns
Ferry to Kelley's Ferry, and eventually
even the control of that road that ran
along the north side of the river at the
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
TULAROSA VALLEY. n. NJ.
An Iowa Veteran Sings the Praises OF
Land of Sunshine.

Editor National Tribune: I have been
ivino years in southern New Mexi-
%. During that time it has been NY
7esire to see number of my old com
rades settle and make their homes IT
this valley, but I did not think the ie-
veIopment sufficient until now to ask
4 number to come. Now. l can say
with a clear conscience to all who want
4 home - the finest climate in tn"
world and as good soil as there is any
where come to the land OF sunshine
In our valley we have over 1,OOO.oOo
acres If Government land. with plentS
If water under it from 10 to 60 feet
We have artesian water at 355 feet
The valley is 40 miles wide and 149
n lies long. The Sacramento Noun
.ains lie to the east, the San Andres 70
The west. Gold. copper, lead, iron and
rery nearly all of the other minerais
bound in both ranges. There ar
many men working in the mines; smell
ters going up, new towns building.
Tularosa is an Did Mexican colonv
7ottled in 1862. We have the finest Of
rruit of ali kinds. You can raise everv-
thing that grows out of the ground y II
topical fruits. AS good schools as ynu
have in Iowa or Ohio. No cyclones. J."
tCrnadoes. no Winter billiards.. tn"
coolest for many years G9GD was -
degrees above zero. We have SOM
wear The rainfall is IA inches year
You can farm with profit eight year,
cut of 10 without irrigation. 1t is thf
'clief of good judges that this land VIII
be worth 800 an acre within five years
soldier can make soldiers filing
without coming out for six months If
he is not ready to come. Anyone III
the land district can make it for him.
A man should not go II any new Coun-
ty with less than $500. and if he had
$1,000 l. would be better. When You
have everything to buy on piece o.
new land it eats uD money very fast
There is plenty of work in the coun-
try; wages, $3.50 to 81 a day. You
would not want to bring anything with
YOU but your bedding. your clothing
and your money. Now. boys, If you
write me for information be sure anG
:end stamps for reply. as I am not Il
banker nor n money lender, but just
plain doctor If you come you will
say the half has not been told.-John
w. Long, Co. A, I'd Iowa, Tularosa,
n. NJ.
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permit musketry fire. At most of the
bridgfS there was but one blockhouse.
and as a rule they were intended 10
hold from 20 to 80 men. Several brill
liant defenses of these were made, and
few were taken when defended with
ordinary courage. They were so ef-
fective that in all there were but six
bridges burned during the war between
Nashville and Chattanooga. Without
them the Atlanta campaign would not
have been possible.
(To be continued.)
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Father corsy nt Gettysburg.


Two armies stood in stern array
On Gettysburg's historic field
This side the blue. on that the gray
Each side resolved to win the day.
Or life to home and country yield.
Take arms" Fall in" rang DER the
line
OF Hancock's ever-valiant corps
For to the left the cannons chime
With music terribly sublime.
With deaths unceasing, solemn roar.
With spirits ardent. undismayed.
With flags upliftcd toward the sky.
There stands brave Meagher's old bri-
gade.
Those noble laurels ne'er will fade
Upon the page of history.
"AIl forward. mepr No. pause awhile
Dead silence follows like parade
At Order arms" for 'lDng the file
There moves priest with holy smile
The priest of Meagher's old brigade.
All eyes were toward him reverent
turned.
For he was known and loved by all,
And every face with fervor burned
And with glance his mission learned
A mission of high Heavens call.
Then spake the priest: My comrades,
friends
Ere long the battle fierce will surge:
At such a moment God commends
Y You from the soul all sin to purge.
"Kneel. soldiers; lift your hearts to
God:
In sweet contrtion crush the pride
OF human minds: kneel on the sod
That soon will welter in your blood
Look up to Christ who for You died"
And every man. whate'er his creed.
KneelS down and whispers pass along
The ranks, and murrnuring voices plead
To be from sins contagion freed
And turned from path of moral
wrong.
Across the vale the gray lines view
The priest, and those who kneeling
now
For absolution humbly sue
And. joining hearts. the gray and blue
Together make the holy VOW.
The smoke of battle lifts apace.
And DER the field lie fOr-ls of men,
With glaZen eyes and pallid face
Dead-yet alive. for Gods sweet grace
Has saved them from the death of
sin
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base of Walden's Ridge, for this came
under the musketry fire of the pickets
which the enemy established in the
woods on the south side of the stream.
BrnEE's Movements.
For two days after the battle Bragg.
army did little Extensively. Forrest and
Wheeler pushed forward with some
show of aggressiyeness but wherever
they encountered the Union troops they
were beaten back with comparatively
little effort. All Bragg's principal SUBJ
ordinates are volutle in saying what
they wanted to do, and would have
DONE If they had been allowed, but. as
has been said before, most of this was
an afterthought- Their movements on
Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 81 and %,
are far from indicating any burning
desire to renew the conflict and bring
about a repetition of the terrible scenes
of that sanguinary Sunday. Bragg be-
gan to move his infantry up toward
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

his depot at Bridgeport lay along the
south bank of the Tennessee. The hold
Ing of this all-important route was con-
hded to Lieut.-Gen. Longstreet's COM
mand, and It's possession forced the
enemy to road double the length, over
two ranges of mountains, by wagon
transportation. At the same time our
cavalry, in large force, was thrown
across the river to operate on this long
and difficult route. These dispositions
faithfully sustained insured the enc
my's speedy evacuation of Chattanooga
for want of food and forage. Possessed
of the shortest road to his depot, and
the one by which reinforceme ents must
reach him we held him at oar mercy.
and his destruction was only a question
of time.
THE disastrous loss of these advan-
tages and our subsequent operations in
consequence must be the subject of =
future communication.
THE suggestion of a movement by
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
building BlOckhOuses.

pu1iufnS blOckhOuHeS.
The forces of Gen. Gordon Granger
were moved up from Nashville to guard
the railroad from that point to Bridge
port, and the work of erecting block.
houses at all of the numerous bridges
was begun and pushed actively for
ward. These blockhouses, which were
designed to play an important part in
guarding the line of communications
from Kentucky and Tennessee were
begun by Gen. st. Clair Norton, Cap
tain of Engineers who designed them.
and their efficiency was a high tribute
to his capacity. While the Army of the
Cumberland was making its long stay
at MurfreesborO he began this work by
the construction of heavy stockades
and blockhouses to guard the seven
bridges between Murfreesboro and
Nashville. This proved so effective that
1t was determined to extend them 20
the Tennessee River, something over
100 miles.
At first these blockhouses We're a
square redoubt. with four circular bas-
tions, the diameter of the lattef being
made the same as that of SibIey tent,
so that 1t could be covered by these
tents and used as quarters. - These
stockades did admirably against infan-
try, but were a slaughter pen when ar
tillery could be brought to bear against
them. Col. Merrill therefore changed
their form, and with the assistance ot
Col. Innes, OF the Michigan Engineers,
and Lieut.-Col. Huntoon regular block
houses We're devised and built in the
shape of a Greek cross with r. central
tower. The stockades were covered
with a layer of logs laid side by side
and then covered with EARTH Oyer the
earth were laid shingles or boards, when
they could be procured, in order TO keep
the interior dry. iIl II
At first these blockhousesH were built
square. employing the ordinary log
house shape. but later the octagonal
form was adopted. which. however.
was so much more difficult to build that
the men. as rule. preferred the square
form. which could be thrown up m ore
quickly.
The Engineer Corps built enough to
make a protection for the garrison, and
then left the covering and other details
to be executed by the men stationed
there.
Altogether on the Nashville &. Chat-
tanooga RAILROAD. Isl miles in length,
there were 80 blHckhcuees. two hrfap
;"r"o 5er"-~os fr~ "rt'lc-'- No"r,,' aIl
"f these bod douNle walls to rneist ar
tillery. The walls were loopholed to
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

our right Immediately after the battle
to the north Of the Tennessee and
thence upon Nashville requires notice
only because it will find place on the
files IF the Department. Such a move
ment was utterly impossible for want
of transportation. Nearly half our
army consisted of reinforcements just
before the battle without n wagon or
an artillery horse and nearly If not
quite. third of the artillery horses on
the field had been losf The railroad
bridges, too. had beer destroyed to
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
The important Position Of Kentucky and Tennessee.
By JOHN McELR0Y.

comparatively small garrison in
strong works Summertown and the
passes to the mountain could have been
held against any force that Bragg could
have sent across it. BY holding Look
out Mountain Rosecrans could have
protected his railroad from Chatta-
nooga t0 Bridgeport. and guarded his
line of supplies.
Summertown's Strategic Importance.
To understand the exceeding impor-
tance of Summertown IT is necessary
to study the map. Summertown stands
at the junction of most of the roads IN
the summit plateau of Lookout Noun
tain, and il is reached from Chatta-
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AMI LoohoUI MOUNTAIN. From q
graph.)
nooga Creek below the town. In front
OF these works was heavy line of
Skirmishers: the Confederates pushed
forward skirmishers until they seri-
ously engaged these. and then began
establishing a line of works envelop-
ing those of the Union army
There is much confusion of state
ment as to what was passing thru the
minds of Bragg and his subordinates
at this time, but there were at least
serious disagreements. Jefferson Davis
wanted Bragg u turn the Union left
flank and cross the Tennessee above
Chattanooga and take something like
his former route across the Sequatchie
Valley into Tennessee and Kentucky
assailing Rosecrans's communications
and probably capturing him. Long
street representing this view of the
Confederate War Department, urged it
upon Bragg. who at first seemed to
consider it in the absence of any definite
plans of his own, and then treated it
with contempt.
BraEE's Statement.
In his official report Bragg says of
his movements up to the investment of
Chattanooga: The whole cavalry force
having been dispatched to press the
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
GROUND PLAN OF A BLocKHoUsE

enemy and cut off detachments, orders
were given for the army to move to a
point near the railroad and convenient
to water, still interposing between the
enemy and our large number of wound
ed, our trophies and our wounded pris-
oners, whose removal from the field
occupied many days.
"Our supplies of all kinds were
greatly reduced, the railroad having
been constantly occupied in transports
ing troops, prisoners and our wounded,
and the bridges having been destroyed
to a point two miles south of Ringgold.
These supplies were ordered replenish-
ed, and as soon as it was seen that we
could be subsisted the army was moved
forward to seize and hold the only
communication the enemy had with his
supplies in the rear. His most impor-
tant road and the sh priest by half to
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
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TO THE VETERANS.

The Tribute Of n Comrades Wife.
Editor National Tribune: My wife
who composed the following poem, is
nearly II years old. She uses me as
her typewriter. I am no Spring chicken
any more. 1 have never learned the
business of writing and spelling. having
gone into the army when only 16, and
have only one eve that / can see with
ut all. SO if this work is not done as
well as it might be, and as well as !
would like it t. be. you will please make
the proper allowance. as / do not claim
to be an expert. by any means: yet I
do the best I can, and that is as good
as the angels do. If this poem finds a
place in your very valuable paper it no
doubt will please many of my rld COM
rades.-JOhn d. Main. Hagerst own, Md.
To the Veterans of the G. A. II.
Twas easy to march IN the RI ,rning.
When heart-throbs and limbs were
strong,
When blast of life's bugle was calling,
Like strains of beautiful song,
When the drum taps called YOU to ac
ton,
And comrades were by your side,
So easy to march in a column.
Each firmly stepping side by side.
How bravely you entered the conflict,
Cheers greeted each moment of time,
And honor was crowning your efforts,
When life seemed almost sublime,
With friends standing by to support
you.
And lift their voices in praise.
Your heart never tired. but only in
spired
Your flag of success t. raise.
When the work dragged on in the even
ing,
And the friends that cheered were
gone,
And the praises of men were silent
That piped so loudly at morn,
And you missed the dear old compan-
ions
Who started in life with you.
You sadly stood by the tattered Flag
Alone with the living few.
Twas hard to keep stepping in silence,
When your path had lonesome grown,
Life's bitter cup a soldier must drink,
Without a sigh or groan,
And this was the test of your courage,
test that YOU dare not sflirk,
In the bright days and the dark ones
You must faithfully do your work.
Yes, battle when plaudits may cheer
you.
March when your comrades are gone,
Faithful and valiant forward press On.
And smile in spite of the wrong,
In the bright days and the dark ones,
Faithful, valiant and bright,
Ready for battle or marching on,
Out in the darkness of night.
Those only who march to the music,
But fail when the battle is on,
Are not the loyal. the true and brave
Who stand by the muffled drum.
1t may be your march will be silent.
AS you step to the taps Of the drum,
When the battle of life is finished,
And your work as a soldier is done.
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Old Honest Abe"
You are a babe
In military glory;
An erring fool
4 party tool,
A trait or and q Tory.
Dictator now
And in a row,
And pulling off the trigger
At all the South,
With foaming mouth.
And charming off the niger.
You know it's so.
At Fort Monroe
You put them all to labor,
Whom you declare
AS free as air,
Your equal and your neighbor.
Why treat them so?
It's wrong, you know,
When Butler doesn't need 'em.
Some other day,
We know you'll say.
You'll give them all their freedom
What Is your plea
TO set them free?
They cost four thousand million.
You cannot pay
That debt you say.
You everlasting villain.
But you are boss,
A mighty hoss,
A-snorting in the stable;
A racer. too,
A kangaroo
So whin ,lS If yOI'ra able
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

OUTSIDE VIEW OF A BLOCKHOUSE
Cooks Division stood guard above and
below Bridgeport.
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Rebel Poetry.

The following piece was picked up
by me on the battlefield of Iuka. Miss,
Sept 20. '62, the morning after the
fight. In this battle I was on detached
duty to the 18th Ohio Battery-John
w. Pickett, Co. E, seth Ind, Terre
Haute, Ind.
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Those only who march to the music.
But fail when the battle is on,
Are not the loyal the true and brave
Who stand by the muffied drum.
1t may be your march will be silent.
AS you step to the taps Of the drum
When the battle of life is finished.
And your work as a soldier is done.
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Yes, battle when plaudits may cheer

you
March when your comrades are gone
Faithful and valiant forward press On
And smile in spite of the wrong,
In the bright days and the dark ones,
Faithful. valiant and bright,
Ready for battle or marching on,
Out in the darkness of night.