ILLATOIINA PASS. A Fight Sherman Watched from Kenesaw Mountain. HE SIGNAL-IS TO GEN. 00sec “Hold the Fort for I Am Coxning”—0rigin of the Song—Preparing for tho D‘Inrcli to the Sea—The Start Marlo on Nov. 16. 1864. Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing an- other song, Bing it with a spirit that will start the world along, Bing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia. (lacuna—Hurrah! hurrah, the year of jubilee! Hurrah, hurrah, the flag that makes you free; So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia. How the darkies shouted when they heard the joyful sound. How the turkeys gobbled that our connnissnry ' found, How the sweet potatoes fairly started from the ground, - While we were marching through Georgia. The last important fight of Sherman’s army with Hood before going on the march to the sea, a quarter century ago, was at Allatoona Pass, Oct. 4, 1864. During its progress the incident occurred, which gave rise to the famous Sunday school song, “Hold the Fort for I am Coming.” Oct. 4, the Union garrison at Allatoona was held by Col. John E. Tourtellotte, with 800 men. Under his care were more than a million rations of bread. Sherman himself was at Vining Station. Seeing heavy con- federate mamas moving towards Allatoona, ' he became anxious, and signaled to Gen. John M. Corse at Rome to hurry forward with his division to the aid of Tourtellotte. The Confederates were down in the plain. Sherman’s signals passed from mountain top to mountain top over their heads. He first signaled from Vining Station to Kenesaw, from Kenesaw to Allatoona, and from Alla- toona to Corsc at Rome to hasten. He could get no reply from Corse, and was uncertain whether he received the message, and was consequently in great anxiety for a while. Oct. 5 Sherman went in person to Keno- From Keuesaw mountain he had a saw. glorious view. But it was scarcely satis- factory. Hc saw the line of his railroad from Big Shanty to Allatoona marked by flame and smoke. He saw the camp fires of a great army to the southwest, about Dallas. And north of him, toward Allat-oona, he heard the boom! boom! of cannon and saw battle smoke clouds filling the sky. It was an anxious moment for the com- mander. He ordered the Twenty-third corps to march westward at once, and to burn houses and brush as it advanced, to in- dicate its pnogress. Sherman wished to interpose this corps . ‘ between Hood’s main army about Dallas and the ad- vance that was at- tacking Allatoona. Meantime Sher- man from the top of Kenesaw con- tinued sending to “ , Allatoona. the mes. HOLD THE FORT,“ sage “Hold the fort. I am here with reen- fo‘rcements.” He could get no reply for hours, but at last, while Sherman himself stood beside the signal ofiicer, the well known flag appeared at an embrasure in the fort, and spelled out the message: “Com is here!“ “He will hold out; I know the man,” ox- claimed Sherman. And hold out he did. The battle sounds in the direction of Alla- tcona grew fainter, and ceased at 4 o‘clock. Then the signal flag reported that the Con- federatcs had been driven 01?, but that Com had been wounded. Next morning this mes- sage came from Corse himself: “I am short a check bone and an ear, but am able to whip all h—l yet. My losses are very heavy. A force moving from Stiles- boro to Kingston gives me some anxiety. Tell me where Sherman is. “J omv M. 003811, brigadla- ml.” Corse had received Sherman’s signal men- scge and obeyed at once. But the railroad Wes in' bad order, and not many more than a thousand men could be brought into All» 75?”. W by 1 s m» ”7"- Oct. 5, the day of the battle ofAllar ' .2". d .. be the limes of . ,Allatoona. Pass pared for bobbin. At 3 a. m. the Confederate Gen. ‘ = French‘s division GEN. JOHN H. CURSE. 39W in front of Allatoona. and summoned the garrison to surrender, “to avoid a noedlem effusion of blood.” Curse sent back by the flag of tram this charactefisticmessago: "Your communication demanding surren- der of my command I acknowledge receipt of, and respectfully reply that we are pre pared for the needless'efifuaion of blood when- ever it is agreeable to you.” The attack began at once, front, flank and rear. It was a very spirited fight and- a bloody one. Col. Re'dfleld, of the Thirty- ninth Iowa, was shot dead. Gen. Corse and 0015. Tourtellotte and Rowett were severely wounded, but all continued at their posts giving orders. Assault after assault was made by French, each of which was repelled. By 4 o’clock‘the Confederates gave up the attempt totakc Allatoona and retired down the Dallas road. As a parting shot French poured 'a heavy fire into the block house at Allatoona creek. It was speedily in flames and French cap- tured its force, eighty-nine men. Then he retreated rapidly, so rapidly that he passed the Dallas road before Cox’s head of column could reach him, and rejoined Hood. The Confederate Brig. Gen. Young was captured among other prisoners. In this bloody battle of Allatoona Pass the Union loss was 7'06, that of the Confederates, 1,142. Gen. Sherman considered their defense of Allatoona so handsome and important that he made it the subject of a specialand con- gratulatory order. In this he said that the defense illustrated “the most important prin- ciple in war, that fortified posts should be defended till the last, regardless of the rela- tive numbers of the party attacking and air tacked.” THE UNKNOWN’S GRAVE. Of all the Confederates who fell on the bloody ground at Allatoona Pass, the grave NOR'WALK GAZETTE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1‘: 189. of one remains. He was buried where he tell, just at the mouth of the gap. His name is unknown. It is only known that he was a Confederate Soldier who was killed at Alla- bone. The traveler along the Western and Atlan- tic railroad can see the grave from the car window. It is carefully tended by the track men of the road, who placed above it a. head- stone with the inscription: ax UNKNOWN HERO. He died for the cause he thought was right. Sherman immediately utilizad all his re— sources to repair the railro-icl, which had been seriously—the Confederates thought hopelessly—damaged for eight miles, from Big Shanty to a short distance from Ack- worth. But in seven days Sherman’s supply trains were running over it again. The Con- federates had a story that “‘old Sherman” even carried duplicate railway tunnels along with him. Sherman himself entered Allatoona Oct. 9. Oct. 10 Hood was near Rome, south of the Etowah. Sherman ordered pursuit, but Oct. 11 it was found that Hood had disap- peared from Kings- ton, where, nobody knew. Oct. 12 Hood was at Resaca, thence to Dalton, thence westward to Gads- den, Ala., where he was Oct. 2‘2. Sher- man followed the Confederates as far as Gaylesvillc, in , the eastern edge of 5 Alabama. The re he left them for Thomas to take care of, and, turning back, prepared for the march to the sea. On the way back to Rome Gen. T. E. Gr. Ransom, a beloved and gallant young officer, died of typhoid fever. He was being carried to Rome in a litter. His remains were sent to Chicago and buried with military honors. The Army of the Tennessee erected a monu- ment to his memory. A Union fleet was promised to meet the army at Ossabaw sound, in the mouth of the Ogcechee. A message was received from Thomas at noon, Nov. 12, saying he believed he could take care of any force that should come against him in Tennessee. Sherman, at Cartersville, answered simply: “All right.” Then he ordered all tho wires running north- ward to be out. That was the last message from Sherman for a. month. His chief on- gineer on the march to the sea was Col. Or- lando M. Poe, since so well known in the United States engineer corps. . > All rolling stock was dispatched northward to avoid its capture or destruction. The bridge at Allatoona was taken down and stored for future use. Other railroad bridges were burn- .n): h ' GEN. HANSON. [1'7 @131 "I; ,-’7/Is.\u\m\‘” ed, and the very QM ‘) ) rails and. ties them- selves destroyed in the manner :1 o w Sherman’s soldiers “We left nothing ‘ behind us but two streaks of rust and the right of way,” said a s o l d i o r , speaking a f t o r - , wards of this time. ..» Only one task ro— - . mained. That was _ l to burn Atlanta. ocr. 0. 3L P011 to prevent it being and as a Confederate depot. GLORY, GLORY, HALLELIMAHI Nov. 15 the grand march was actually be- gun by the right wing. Oficers and men turned their faces eastward. leaving behind them a pull of smoke where Atlanta had hm. Tho left wing moved Nov. 16. When this wing started, the regimental band of the Chunky-third Massachuiotm began to play: John Brown’sbody Ila mounting In thogmvo, But his soul h marching on. '1?» regiment caught the air and to m it. Others followed until 10.000 on pound thorolling grand cu chorus: “Glory, glory, ballalnjah I” Shannon‘s army in Georgia was diviied into tight and loft wings, the ri ht oom- nnmded. by Maj. Gen. 0. Q. Bower the left by Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum. iok commanded the cavalry. The two wings moved by diflieront roads fromAflantn one threatening Macon, the other Augusta. ’1‘th were to meat at Millodgovilloin seven days. Shaman started from Atlanta with the left wing. Neither officers nor men know their destination. Sherman meant to reach the seaccast at Savannah if ho could, or at Port Royal. If ' he could make“ neither of these places, than ‘ ho had Pensacola in mind. His general direc- tion at first was between the Oconoe and 00- mulgco rivers, southeastward. In the start, Howard’s wing. moved along the railroad from Atlanta to Macon,tc deceive any Confederate force that might be lurking near as to the first objective point of the march, which was Milledgeville. ' Hood had left he- hind him‘ for the defense of Georgia Wheeler’s cavalry. As to its other protection, it was under the charge of Governor “Joe” Brown and his Georgia militia. Three thousand of these were at Lovejoy’s station when Howard began his march, and his first task was to drive them away. Kilpatrick’s cavalry dislodged the militia and Confederate cavalry near Lovejoy’s, Nov. 16, captured their guns and drove them towards. Macon. Then the cavalry turned eastward and crossed the 0cmulgee. Under cover of Kilpatrick’s feiut against Macon, Howard’s infantry crossed the Oc- mulgee and advanced till his head of column was at Gordon, twenty miles eastward. “Forage liberally. ” This was Sherman’s order to the regularly detailed foraging parties. They became so skillful that they could load a wagon with corn almost without stopping. A number of wagons in the trains were always empty. Driving these to a. crib, the men, by means of crowbars, opened the side of the crib. Then they lay down upon the corn bodily and kicked it into the wagon in aminute’s time, and were ready to join the train again. ELIZA ARCHARD Co'xxnn. grown familiar to COMMOTION IN GEORGIA. ' When the. Union Army Passed Through. - Twenty-five Years Ago. ' Twenty-five years ago, in December, 1864, a thrill of afl’right ran through Georgia and North Carolina. Sherman, with his whole army was in the interior of Georgia, headed eastward. Wild appeals were made to every- body and anybody to be patriotic and save the state. Beauregard issued a manifesto to the Georgians. “Arise for the defense of your native soil,” he said. “Destroy all the roads in Sherman’s front, flank and rear. * * * Be confident and resolute, and trust in an overruling Prov- idence.” “Let every man fly to arms," wrote the Confederate secretary or war, Seddon. “Re- move your negroes, horses, cattle and provi- sions from Sherman’s army, and burn what you cannot carry. Burn all the bridges and block up the roads in his route. Assail the invader in front, flank and rear by night and by day. Let him have no rest.” Governor Brown ordered a. levy for war of all the white male population of Georgia be- tween 16 and 45 years old. He also offered pardon to a. 1 1 penitentiary convicts who would become Confeder- ate soldiers, but 0 n 1 y a hundred availed themselves of the ofi’ered free- dom. A number of these we re cap-: tured in t h e i r,” striped prison garb' ’ ~ ' by the Union army. J. Y Benjamin H. I-Iill, ‘ \ who dieda member SENATOR 13' 11' HILL of the United States senate in 1882, was in 1864 senator from Georgia to the Confederate government. He sent from Richmond a ‘ proclamation to Georgians, saying: “Every citizen with his gun and every negro with his spade and ax can do the work of a soldier. You can destroy the enemy by retarding his march. Bo firm, act promptly and fear not!” But none of these efforts were able to arouse serious opposition to Sherman’s ad- vance. THE LEFT WING. Nov. 21, Slocum’s head of column was within ten miles of Milledgeville. Sherman was with him. The soldiers camped on the plantation of Howell Cobb, secretary of the treasury under Buchanan, and “fox-aged lib- erally.” After supper an aged, trembling negro came into Sherman’s presence with a candle and eyed the general from head to foot. “What do you want, old man?” Sherman asked. “Dey say you is Massa Sherman,” replied the negro. Sherman said he was, and again asked what was wanted. For reply the old men only muttered over and over again: “Dis nigger can’t sleep dis night.” Nov. 23 the left wing of Sherman’s army reached Milledgeville. The advance drove out a small Confederate force, which re- treated rapidly. Slocum’s army had thoroughly destroyed the railroad from Atlanta. to Madison, 3 dis- tance of seventy miles. Then he turned to the south, toward Millodgeville. Milledgcvillo was then the capital of Georgia. Here, Nov. 23, Sherman ascer- tained that Howard and the right win were at Gordon, only twelve miles away. hile the left wing was at Madison. the right was fifty miles to the south. This was the great- est distanco atvnny time between the two commands. At this time the Confederate Lieut. Gen. “7'. J. Hardeo came upon the scene to do what he might to resist Sherman. He had been appointed. from Richmond commander of operations in Georgia, and was at Savan- nah when the news of Sherman’s approach to Milledcovillo reached the sea coast. Hardeo decided that Sherman’s separation of his'army into two wings m’eantan advance either on Savannah or Augusta. Ho there- fore directed Gen. Smith to move rapidly eastward, to reach Augusta, if possible, be- fore Sherman could do 30. Wheeler, with the cavalry, was to continue to annoy the Union flank and rear. Sherman was asked lately why he did not go to Augusta instead of to Savannah. He replied: ' I detached to Gen. Thomas a force sumcimt to whip Hood, which he. in December, 1864. very handsomely and conclusively did. Still had left ovoryres embloum,andresolvedtojoin Grant at 'ehmend. 9 distance was 1,000 mile; nudlu'ldonco dictated a base at Savannah or Port Royal. Our enemy bad. gums at Ma- con and Augusta. I figured on both, and passed between to bavannah. Then, ' northward, the some problem presented itself in and Charleston. Ifignred on both, butpaancdbe' tween. The Georgia legislature was in session at Wodgoville. The day before Ska-man reached the place the whole state govern- ment, legislative, executive and judicial, de- oampod cud abandoned the town. Citizens followed their maple. Sherman’s my camped arcimd ‘- villo, but not many of them entered ' 9 place. All buildings containing property of the Confederate government, or buildings which it could make use of, were burned, also 1,700 bales of cotton. Private buildings were not disturbed. A BUMMER. The orders. to the people, along Sherman’s line of march to obstruct the roads and burn bridges ahead of him were met by the Union commander in a way at once unique and eflectual. in advance that wherever roads were blocked and bridges, food and forage burned, the houses and property adjacent to such points ' would be devoted to destruction in return. There was little obstruction of the march thereafter. At Macon, Nov. 22, were Gen. Howell Cobb, Governor Brown and Robert Toombs. ‘ Toombs was Governor Brown’s adjutant gen- or, eral. I’Vith them was Gen. “Dick” Ta. who_had distinguished himself West 0 the Mi551551pp1. He had now come in obedience to Beauregard’s orders to aid in defending Georgia. But he had no army with him. ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER. He caused it to be made known ‘ .7 x .. 60"me Onoof the leading Pearl street merchants wasai eye witness yesterday to the utter demolition of all previous records in the way of cold nerve. He was busy at one of his counters and did not look up asthe quick step of a woman was heard in Walnut of the store, nor as its owner posed him, going toward the roar of the place. He even thought it might be his wife, who is a fre- quent visitor at her husband’s place of busi- ness. “ A minntolator he went back himself tohis little private edict in the rear, and reached the door just u a well dressed and eminently respectable woman, whose name isin the recently published list of Albany “society,” and whom he know slightly, but only slightly, closed his cash drawer with a bang, and looking up as he stopped. thunder- struck on the threshold, said coolly: “Well, you haven‘t got enough change to change my 35 bill, so I won't bother you.” Then she swept out of the store, leaving the merchant in estate of mental and physical collapse from which he has not yet recovered—Al- bany. Express. A Sensible Man Would use Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and lungs. 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