Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-28
H. |. LYONS REVIEWS
 SCENES Of WAR DAYS
MET MANY OLD COMRADES AT CHATTANOOGA REUNION BUT THEY WERE NOT THE
 SAME AS OF TORE.
First Trip Rack To His Old Home in Al Years Felt Like Rip
 Van Wrinkle.

turned recently from the Confederate Reunion at Chattanooga, and visit of several weeks to points in Ala bana, Mississippi and East Tennessee, gave representative of the Graphic an interesting account of his trip to his old home and the famous battle field, with it's museum of relics, and many points of interest, especially to the veterans to whose minds they recall so wildly the scenes of the past.
 Among other thing, MT. Lyons said.
 ''It was my first trip back in 4l years, and in Chattanooga when 1 tried to find familiar faces and places, l felt like Rip Van Wrinkle just re- turned from his long sleep on the mountain, fully 90 per cent of the population being utter strangers to e. l met many of the old confederate veterans, many of them comrades whom I had not seen since the war. My company was Company G, 4th Alabama Cavalry, and it gave me great pleasure to meet some of the same company, whom l recognized, through their heads were whitened with the snow of years, and they bore the marks of battles With the world. since the close of the war when they were young. The most noted veteran was Capt. Frank Gurley of Company c, the same regiment who was the officer in command that killed General Cook, the first Federal Scout that was ever attempted through North Alabama He was af- terwards captured and held prisoner during the entire war ill northern prisons. He was tried by Federal court-martial and also by civil court and sentenced to be hanged, but by the intervention of friends from time to time his case would be held over, until at the close of the war he was free man. He consld- CTS his experience very unusual one.
 "I consi1or my trip truly the time of my life. l had an opportunity to visit the old home of my boyhood days. East Chattanooga. The only relative whom l remembered was an invalid niece, but l had the pleasure of meeting her ten children ana twenty-two grand children. l visited nephew in Middle Tennessee, whom I hadn't seen since 1856, and a sister and cousins in North Alabama whom I hadn't see nfor nearly half cen tury
 "I would like to tell you of my trip up Lookout Mountain l took the foot-way, in preference to the lnclln- ed railway, or the drive way, as wanted to cross the old battle field of Lookout Mountain, where the famous battle tok place known in history as the Battle Above the Clouds.
 ''It took two hours to reach the summit, nearly half the way is by wooden steps scaling the cliffs which could not be overcome in any other way, except by going around, making the trip much longer. At the top of each flight were seats where the weary traveller might rest and enjoy the wonderful view of Chattanooga and the Tennessee river with Mal- .... @hN lnf ridge on the right-a sight to str the heartstrings of any veteran who De- held it, and which is, l think, asiue from any associations, one Of the most wonderful views in the world. saw the places where the pickets were stationed on the night of No- yember A, 1S64-pickets were only 14O feet apart, but at that time there was thick woods where now is but an open space.
 Also, saw where the Federal army was stopped, and never allowed to reach the summit.
 Room of War Relics
 Next was a museum on top of the mountain, filled with relics picked up from the battlefield, old musKels' canteens, uniforms, and numberlcss articles interesting to young ana ola.
 MT. Lyons showed a copy of paper which was published in Chattanooga in the summer of '62, called the "Doi1y Pahal, ,, nuhlished by Franc ii. Paul. The terms of subscription were as follows:
 .'one copy one month, s1.oo. Cash must accompany every order. No subscriptions taken for longer per iod than one month" It carries the names of Davis and his caplhet uh- der the caption.
 Government of the Confederate States