Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

day, in the afternoon. He had five thousand
effective infantry, but artillery.
Cheathams division bore the brunt of the
first days attack. 1t was a long, terrible
and doubtful encounter. 1t was near sun
set before General Cheathams forces were
able to move across over the bloody field,
where the storm of battle had been so heavy
He commanded one of D. H. Hills divisions
The enemy were driven back a half mile
from their line of battle. The COnfederates
rested that night the field, with their
dead and wounded.
General Bragg held a council of war in
the night. The Confederates were divided
into two armies, commanded by Longstreet
and Polk. LOngstreet reached Bragg's head
quarters near midnight. With a little rest,
at day dawn he moved to the left with his
command in front of Bragg's headquarters
General Polk was ordered to assail the eX-
treme right of Thomas army at day dawn
but he did not do it. Bragg waited for the
sound of Folks guns. The general was
found at breakfast time, with his staff eating
breakfast, and it is printed that Bragg sent
a general order for every captain in Folks
army to take his company into action i'm
mediately. 1t was 10 o'clock before the
battle opened on the right wing of Bragg's
army. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon
General Longstreet asked General Bragg for
some of the troops of the right wing, but
they had been in constant service and were
then being beaten back, but he did lead
what he had forward, and with Hindman
and Johnson's troops he gained the heights
above the Crawfish Spring road. The his
torian says: 1.-The enemy broke up in con-
fusion along Longstreets front, at the same
time the right wing made a gallant dash
and took over the line, which had been held
so long against it. The enemy had fought
with every. man he had and every in
turn had been beaten. The day had certain
~ been saved by Longstreet but it is JUS
tice to say that his mastery maneuvers was
followed up and mpleted by General Polk
and it was their combined attack which made
the enemy give up the field" Folks wing
captured twenty elght pieces of artillery and
Longstreet's twenty-one about equal num-
Der prisoners amounting to over 5000, 49,
900 stands of arms and forty stands of regi-
mental colOrs.
General Bragg admitted he had lost two
ifths of his army The enemys loss was
computed at 10000! Nothing more bril-
liant said of Napoleons army
Right here Georgia soil, a little over
fifty miles from where I sit in my room to-
day, all this occurred, a little over sixty
years ago! 1t is safe bet that the state
of Georgia will at some time, sooner or later
erect a monument to General Longstreet on
Georgia soil, which will give him what is
due to his masterful patriotism and military
skill the battlefield of Chickamauga. He
lost all his fortune in the War Between
the States. He had fine standing in the old
army as did General Lee He died a poor
man because he did not use his military skill
after the war, did SomeA others, in the
Spanish American war. His widow it not
| financially able to buy tablet to put his
name in the Stone Mountain Hall of Fame
but the day is coming when Georgia will
wake up and give him Well-deserved mon
ument by public subscription on the capitol
grounds in Atlanta