The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-23

always interesting to the person of
an inquiring cast of mind, as they
throw a flood of light on the hard
ships and obstacles that confronted
the early settlers.
Reference has been made time or
two in this correspondence to the
eminence where the battle was
fought that drove wedge into the
heart of the south and opened the
way for Shermans march to the sea
The battle of Missionary Ridge
was disastrous to the southern army
and hastened the date of the final
surrender as no other battle did. II
was worth more to the Union cause
in the opinion of many, than the bat
tie of Gettysburg or the slaughter
at Chickamauga. The great battle
Of Chickamauga, so far as the caSu-
atty percentage was concerned, was
almost an even draw, but the Union
forces were in better condition to
lose $1,000 men than were the Con
federates. Commanders on the Union
side in 1863, knew that they could
finally win by swapping two or three
men for one on the field, and when
it came to matter of swapping
about even, the Confederates were
the heaviest losers in proportion 70
number of available men.
The Confederates turned the Union
army back at Chickamauga, but
the result at Missionary Ridge open.
ed the road into the heart of the
south for the Federals, and the re-
suit was a path Of ruin from Chat
tanooga to the sea. Joseph e. john
ston, as the reader of history knows,
disputed every foot of ground from
Chattanooga to Atlanta, losing about
5000 men and inflicting six times
that damage to the Union army. But
the result was what every sensible
man knew It would be-'the over
throw of the Confederacy.
Missionary Ridge opened the way
for this raid of the Union army to
the center of the south, and in view
of this fact the battle fought for
The possession of the ridge, and any
thing of historic value connected with
it ought to be given the widest
publicity.
A communication appeared recently
in the Chattanooga Times from Theo-
dore G. Carter, of st. Peter, Mimi.
on the origin of the name of Mis-
sionary Ridge. Mr.. Carter is SO years
of age, and was during the civil war
captain of the Seventh Minnesota
volunteers. He writes as follows:
The missionary station of Brain
erd was established en- and gave the
name to Missionary ridge in 1917. A
school was established there, and
think a mill of some kind was built
in connection with the station.
Nathaniel Carter, a white man
who had married a full-blood Chero-
kee, lived at or near Gunter'sl and
ing, on the Tennessee river. He had
phf1Jrnn how ond IL
girls. II had been captured by Del
aware Indians at what is now called
Paupac, in Pike county, Pennsylva
mia, in 1853, his father, mother and
infant sister killed, and two sisters
carried off with him. He was only
6 years old at that time, and while
his sisters were recovered by Sill
William Johnson, British Indian
agent, at Fort Niagara, the next
summer, young Nathaniel had taken
to the Indian life and refused to &c
back to his relatives in Connecticut
Just how he made his way to the
Cherokee nation is not known.
His son, David, was converted tc
Christianity at Brainerd, and after
receiving such education as could be
obtained at the station, was sent t.
the higher school at Cornwall, Conn.
by the United States government
This was the place from which his
father removed in the spring cl
1868. Here he found his two aunts
one uncle Cmy grandfather. who
was not at home when the indians
camel and other relatives. He re-