Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

organization and who help make the
from which Mrs Harralson descends
was foremost in all the progress of
Atlanta since 1t first began to be a
town. Her mother spent many days
at the rear Of the army having the
dead and wounded removed to the
hospitals and homes OF the citizens
where they could be cared for.
For many years, an isolated grave
overgrown with grass and flowers,
could be seen In the John Ryan fow-
er yard Just over the fence OF their
Whitehall Street home.
The Federal soldiers who came with
Sherman's great army. believing the
mound to be the hiding place for
jewels, money, and other valuables,
attempted to desecrate the mound.
But all that was buried there was the
body Of a young Confederate soldier
named Lyons, who was shot while
fighting with General Hoods army.
buried in the Ryan front yard is
best told by Mrs. Ryan, who brought
the remains there and laid them away
with her own kindly hands.
Il was urgently summoned ono
morning to General Hoods camp,
which was several miles TO the south
west OF my home, out Whitehall
Street. That street had become a
thoroughfare for the soldiers, and
many times have seen the dead and
dying go by. Well, I hurried out to
the camp, TO md a young man. whom
had met before the war began, dy-
ing. He had been shot through the
stomach, had never had his clothes
changed, nor had any examination of
his wound. All night he had lain
upon the grass in the woods, with
Ing in the death agony. and fast
bleeding TO death.
permission was given me by Cen
eral Hood, TO remove the boy to nv
home, but / was warned, as the bonn
hardment was in progress, and shot
and she'll were falling around me at
every step. After much effort, with
the assistance OF four privatss from
the camp, 1 got young Lyons safely
into my house, gave him a bath, and
made him as comfortable as I could,
until the end came. Next morning,
he was wrapped in quilts. and blan-
kets and buried by my servants In
the front yard"
Mrs. Ryan was elected treasurer Of
the Woman's Pioneer Society at the
initial meeting and subsequently re-
signed.
Mrs. Henry LumplSin Wilson. aa
the time OF the organization OF the
Pioneer Woman's Society, was made
second vice president. Mrs. Wilson
with all her family and connections
was identified with the pioneer days
Of Atlanta Her father law, who
was a gallant Colonel In the Confsder-
ate army was killed in the battle Of
Manassas. His remains were brought
home, and a handsome monument
placed over his grave. When Sher-
mans men arrived in the city, they
demolished the Confederate flag that
ornamented the stone, and later an
English stone cutter at Marietta re-
cut it for the family.
Mrs. Wilson has tho following in
teresting story to tell Of two Of the
negroes, in her family
Soon after the war, Bob, who had
been slave in the Lumpkin fam
fly, was elected to the Legislature,
from Macon County. When he en-
tered upon his duties at the State
Capitol he was asked his name. Bob
he answered promptly. He was in
formed that that was no name. Bob
thought and scratched his head A
bright idea came. 7 done married q
niger CONAN what named Fannie
Cook. I" name myself her name
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General Assembly, and reported that
he had decided to take the name OF
his old masters family, and IN future
was known as Bob Lumpkin. Whilst
he was IN the Georgia Legislature
Bob was housed with the other neg
roes in the back yard OF the Wilson
home.
Another negro, ErixA Lumphin, an
nomcsd after the war that as shs
bon better than the other four she
had had. she was going 70 take his
name, and can herself Liza Smith.
Which she did"
Mrs Frank P. Rice, second vice
president Of the Pioneer Society re-
manned in Atlanta during the early
part Of the siege. She tells Of the
bursting Of the first bomb at the cor
HeE OF EedCuLTeo street anu Ellis
and Of the big fire when the Holland
warehouse was burned from the
bursting Of shells. And be Il remem-
bered that IN those days each citizen
was required 70 have on the prem
ises Of his dwelling house two buckets
for water. and a ladder, to be used
for protection against fire..
Mrs. Rice can tell graphically OF
the siege. How the town was an-
circled and how the crimson glare
Of raging fires and the tornado Of
shot and shell made pandemonium
reign. She was one OF the Hospital
Relief Corps, and her ministrations
were, as were those OF the other
pioneer women OF Atlanta, directed
alike to the Union and Southern SOL
diers when they were brought into ne
city from the battlefieids around. dy-
ing and bleeding.
One OF the sad incidents OF the war.
recounted by Mrs. Rice, was the kill
ing of a little sick child and a cap
tain in the Southern army BY the
bursting Of a shell. The mother OF
the child, a Mrs. Coleman. was wait
ing for her child TO recover sufficient
" for her to hurry TO her husband
who was mortany wounded, and in
the hospital az Richmond The can
tain had come into town TO mako