Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-15
REUNION VISITORS WILL
SEE MISSIONARY RIDGE
A Point Of Unusual Interest
Near Chattanooga

| Chattanooga, Tenn, MdFcn ia
point of interest to all tourists who
visit Chattanooga is Missionary Ridge.
This eminence first became historic as
location for some missionary work
among the Cherokee Indians. A band
of missionaries from the east pitched
their tents on the ridge, and from this
| incident it was named They taught
the Indians there, ministered to their
spiritual needs and did general mi;
sionary work throughout the region
round and about Books are yet to
be had here printed in the Cherokee
language. In text these books very
much resemble Greek, but the Greek
scholar soon finds that they are not
what uneducated people take them
to be.
The writer of this sketch has in his
possession a copy Of the New Testa-
ment printed in Cherokee. 1t was
originally printed by these missiona-
ries and distributed among the Cher
okee Indians in East Tennessee and
North Georgia. The missionaries had
an influence for good among the In
dians, and it is not an unusual thing
for some man or woman to come here
from Oklahoma and make an effort tn
locate their forefathers' homes. There
are records of the work of the mis-
sionaries in Oklahoma, carried there
| by Cherokee Indians after the gov
eminent had set apart the Indian
Territory for the exclusive occupation
of the Red Man. With these records,
the members of the younger genera
ton, now perhaps wealthy, seek to
locate the homes of their fathers.
The historic interest that attaches
to Missionary Ridge will draw thous
ands of people to it during the Con,
federate reunion to be held here May
| 81, % and 20. The great battle fought
here in 1863 between the Federal and
Confederate forces, lends greater in
terest than anything else to Mission
ary Ridge. This being the 50th ami
versary of the battle of Missionary
Ridge is another interesting and note
worthy circumstance.
The late Gen. H. H. Boynton, who
did more than any other person to
work out the improvements on the
battlefields around Chattanooga, AMI
who, until his death, was a member of
the Chickamauga-C Chattanooga nation
al park commission, made a speech
some years ago on the occasion of the
unwilling of monument erected on
Missionary Ridge by the state OF Ohio.
in which he spoke particularly of the
battle of Missionary Ridge.
In the course of his speech, Ger,
Boynton said that if, as he had often
seen in print, blood sometimes runs
like water, it ran that way on the
slopes of this historic ridge He add
ed that men of iron contended for the
crest of the ridge and that history had
never done them justice. He made
NO distinction, he said, between the
men of the South and the men of the
North who were engaged in this car
mage. In the battle of Missionary
Ridge, he declared, American bravery
and courage reached high tide. 10
was talking of battle that took place
after Gettysburg.
The visitors to Chattanooga to at
tend the Confederate Veterans reun-
ion, May 1929, will have the best op-
portunity to visit Missionary Ridge.
Tire eminence stretches for a dist
ance Of ten miles north and south inn
meCia'ely east of the valley in which
the city of Chattanooga is located
Chattanooga lies in a valley between
Lookout mountain on the west and
Missionary Ridge on the east. Trolley
cars ascend the ridge and carry their
passengers along it's crest for dis
lance of six or eight miles. Some Of
tie handsomest homes of CHATTANOOGA