Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-08
WILL PROVIDE COMFORTS
FOR The SIGHT,SEERS
During Confederate Veterans
Reunion

Through cooperation of the Chicka
manga and Chattanooga National
Park commission, of which Gen. G.
H. Grovenor of Ohio is chairman, the
magnificent government park on the
battlefield of Chickamauga will be
more comfortable and convenient for
sightseers during the Confederate re-
union here May 27-29 than it has ever
been, The commissioners, Gen. Gros-
vernon, Gen. J. T. Wilder, and Mai
Jos B. Cummings, are assisting the
Chattanooga committee in every pos
sible way and have made a number OF
plans and concessions which will add
materially to the comfort of sightseers
who go to this famous battlefield, as
many thousands will do during re
union week. A large number of rest
places are to be established at points
in the park where the crowds will be
principally, equipped with tents under
which will be chairs, cots, writing tab
lets, cold water and other refresh
ments.
These arrangements are very i'm
portant, in view of the size of Chicka-
manga park which embraces about
seven thousand acres The many hun
dreds of monuments and markers are
distributed all over the park, following
the battle lines and other historic con-
ditions, SO that visitors desiring to
study the field by the markers, or even
to see the principal monuments, must
cover much territory With such fac
ilities as the national park commission
will provide, and the splendid modern
roads which have been built and are
constantly maintained over the routes
of the war time roads, thousands of
veterans and other visitors will go in
automobiles, and carriages, over the
historical field after reaching its boun-
dairy by either of two electric lines OF
steam line which connects the park
with Chattanooga.
Chickamauga cannot fail to be just
as interesting to federal survivors as
to confederates who are living to this
day. The battle which ragged on that
bloody field for three days resulted in
the heaviest percentage Of loss of any
reported two days battle in the worlds
history. It's soil, now productive of
beautiful vegetation including thous-
ands of fine trees, was watered fifty
years ago by the blood of thousands
of soldiers, blue and gray; its now
peaceful sod covers the moldering
bones of thousands who fell there.
Of the many hundreds of Confeder-
ates killed who were placed in the
cemetery here, very few were from
the field of Chickamauga or other
scenes of battle in the Chattanooga
district. Save for a mere handful
whose remains We're taken from the
fed and sent home by loved ones, by
far the great majority of those whose
lives were snuffed out in the terrible
carnage were buried in trenches upon
the field itself, unmarked and unre-
corded. They are each and all men,
orialized in the hundreds of beautiful
monuments which rise in marble
granite and bronze, to stately heights
above the sod where the nameless he
roes lie.
Typifying the beautiful spirit dis
played in the joint effort of federal
commission and a local committee in
Southern city to make a confederate
reunion great success, Gen Gros-
vernon, chairman of the park commits
sion, while here few days ago gave
out the following interview, Just after
a picture of the commission and re-
union committee, together, was TAX
en-;
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