The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14
cOa1a1IrTEE REPORT.
'@iptorfems Spots auM Graves of Reyeln- tsonavy Beldsexs af 1si2
 an AIabama.
HisfexaeaI spo&s

j.go fully all the places of Interest in
 -ehe State 1t seems unnecessary for me
 to attempt it. In Mir / <Miller's history. ae well as others, you find splendid
 descriptions of the Indian battles and
 their mode of warfare. The battles of
 Generals Jackson and Coffee and oth-
 CTS with the Indiana. and some of the
 most noted of these are in our county,
 90 shall tell of some of the historical euots in Calhoun County. also Taiia- dega and St. Clair. Old Fort Sumter, on the banks of the C0osa River, in St.
 Clair County, fs about twenty miles ' from here. There Jackson had his < headQuarters for some time. and it
 was at this place or few miles up { the river he crossed with his men when
 news came to him that the fort at Tal-
 iaaega was about to be destroyed by 1 ifhe Indians. He hastened to their re- 1 Alfef. and after the battle that cost, him
 lzhe lives of sixteen men he succeeded
 1n saving the fort. The Journey there l was through thick forest so to mark
 .fhe trail he had his men plant cedar
 Grees all the way. This road is still l known as Jachsonsa Trace. but most 1 of khose cedars have been cut down
 sbT the farmers. There is still q row
 of them. I suppose quarter oa mile I aong, standing over near the river. I
 drove over there and took a picture
 of the trees and wish our D. A. H. vmouId devise a plan fo protect them hs might be, we could get the Legie- l I'fature to buy this plot and pregsgye it ! as monument to Jackson ana Cnmee' The Mcintosh Road is another beau aifui road we have from Cleburne, | County to the town of Taliedega. | x1aa over this road che Indians were ! tatan when moved from the eastern | nountfes to AfarderBvilie or Jumpers | Guring, four miles south Of Hatlaaegss I before they were sent 70 tne 4nol@n sll I ;rerrffory, The old town is now n .
 reon,nIete state of decay, only rev
 chimneys to show where fhe ola cown
 OnVS Whiie statloned at Fort strotheF. hceneral Coffee fought that memoraDie | battle of Tallasehatchie, kiilins aA Sno l, raala Indians, except the baby boy ESr,,ra on fhe dead mother. whom Gem lSral Jackson reared and eoucated' is I s,szx len miles north of Apnistons ana I isIire Fort strothefj is suow q corn nela. tY hhye been told by some ox tne ore II Ysnzn who IiSed there m Alexanarie Nei. syev that when boys they used to make li rnos ans uiayhouses of these Indian Ebones and their fathers had to burn then, to cultivate the land where tne battle was fought. x Another of our noted places is the Sims Kelly spring. The place wnsrs fine Indians from the northern eounties r@sre coiiected before sent west.
 1 Tho second place in Alabame wneEe LA,.,,, .,yaa made is twelve miles from k:1rs,inton on Cane Creek. Colonel k7Foses L. Barr had . forge shop ana Emnde iron in a very crude manner. kThe old hammers that were useo to kbeat it out are atill there. They were raised up and down by . wheel that wnn run by water flowing over N kAhout 1894 he sold this to Good and fnNoore, who bui1tsa two ton furnace kThey afterwards sold it to MT. MOT l3an. who made t into four-tcn Fur Rxace. and was preparing 10 increase Eto stx tons when was Durne1 1s kFWtisons Raid In 1865. Near there is Eahe house or log hut of an Indian Chief
 rhe sam9 day Wilson's men burned fEhe Morris furnace, they also burned behe Jannsy furnace four miles from E4here, and then destroyed the Oxford EzuFnace.
 Ten miles from here is the home and birthplace of our gallant John Pelham, and there is e small monument to him khere in ouintard are elected by our To. D. c. chapter. Just south of us near Ironaton In
 Tailadega County are shafts that were sunk by De scta on his march through [ L4he state. On the north east side of mountain ERu Alaxandria valley is still to be seen
 2ho remains of an Indian battle ground The information as to these places and battle grounds are taken | from history and told me. by olj men lVyhose fathers fought under, Generals | IIaelxson and Coffee. Mir. John Morris l kwixes me from books and deeds the
 Facts about the iron.
 Revolutionary s0Idlers Graves.
 John Mallory, whom Mrs. Nell tella us Areyy a pension in 1840 in Benton coun- 1 Sy. Is buried at old Daviston Ceme- ] eery. The grave is unmarked and the | Inxact spot not known. as the graves | fare washed flat with the earth. In | k4he same cemetery Elijah Teague 10 IOuriod ana the grave marked. 1 lRev. sslas Crawford a. Revolu- Efaon soldier is buried in Oxford cenle- l&ery, but his grave is not marekd and B%vashed level with the earth so that 1t | cannot be located. He was 100 and | -Four years old; born i75s; died. 1Ss3 | laar. Johnston knew him and gave me | lahis information.
 Miss Baker of Selma has located tDempFie Alden. revolutionary soldier. | buried at Piantersviile. Dallas county. bAle.
 Mrs Tappey of Huntsville. Ala. Seends me this information; Lieutenant E!Albert Russell buried at Maple Hill eCemetsry. Huntsville. Ala: John Am moneth of Virginia. buried near Hazel kGreen, Ala: Reuben Stone of South sCarolfna, buried near New Market. siAla.: Garner. N.,~isA near Hazel Green.
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