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VIEWS IN CHICKAMAUGA PARK, WHERE 1.4,000
"at rr& HEADQUARTERS QPTHE COMMISSION ' "'
CHICKAMAUGA PARK.
IF there is anything of inspiration in
the association of Ideas, any
added patriotism and courage
to he gained by dally life on
a Held where 14,0(10 Union sol
diers died In the hardest fought,
most magnificent and thrilling series of
battles lu the civil war, the regulars,
national guardsmen and volunteers
who encamp in the Chlckamauga Park
should be able to light like fiends Incar
nate. Tenting again on the old camp
ground, In the midst of one of the most
lwnutlf ul bits of country which Cod has
given to this fairest of lands, It Is hard
to believe that war and death were
within a few hours' ride by rail.
As, standing on Lookout Mountain,
the eye sweeps over the glorious view
lielow, Finch's prophecy rushes to
in I ml
No more shall the war cry sever.
Or the winding rivers be red.
No more, Indeed, as to a divided na
tion, and foreign complications were
then untuought of. Where battle lines
of 110,000 men surged thirty-live years
ngo, no.ooo soldiers of the redeemed re
public awaited the word which sends
them forth to strike the shackles from
another race. The heroism of their
fathers Is an open book to these soldiers
of to-day.
HF.OICATiON SEPT. 19, 1S03.
Little more than two short years ago
the I 'ark was dedicated with Imposing
ceremonies, after the nation had spent
nearly a million dollars on it. aim vari
ous Slates almost half n million more,
New York State's share being isSl.noo.
The Governor of Ohio, now the Presi
dent ot 1 ne l nited states, was there. I
All thought then that the park ever
more was dedicated to peace. Western
men, almost entirely, represented the
Villon In the six battles fought within
the park. Ohio has more than fifty mon
uments on the fields, and Illinois nearly j
100. Twenty-nine States had regiment's
In these battles, and each one of these
States either has put up monuments
to mark the position of her troops or
will erect them soon. The General Gov
ernment has remembered In similar
manner the position of the regular regi
ments. Fight generals who fell on
lut.u sides are commemorated by
mounds of shells and solid shot. Where
lotteries were posted ore :00 or 400
lmmnttsl cannon, of the pattern used In
the war. Half a dozen steel towers
seventy feet high rear their slender
forms from commanding positions on
the fields, ami afford to the visitors com
prehensive views.
The park boundaries Inclose aUiiit
fifteen square miles, not Including the
fine roads or approaches. The largest
part of the jvirk Is the battlefield of
Chlokainaugn. In Georgia, and the next
largest part takes lu Lookout Mountain,
Missionary Kldge nnd Orchard Knob,
near Chattanooga. In Tennessee. Nearly
fifty miles of roads Improved by the
General Government connect the differ
ent sections of the park. These are the
Mine roads which the soldiers of the
two armies used to reach the scene of
buttle. All roads which have luvn open
ed since the war have been closed, and
those In use then which since had been
closed were opened by the park com
mission.' Land which was covered with
trees lu war days and since had Ix-eu
cleared was planted with saplings. Ev
ery effort has W-eu made to put the park
lu Its war time condition.
To thousands of persons who nevet
hare been there. lneluillni? tllllllV all. I
old I or who fought on other fields, the
Cjviorama or the battles of Missionary
xmmm. aw-Mi .m. mJStimXmMmMmmmm
rrrrm vH& bloody pond 1 : ;
TOiSrfP "OuOirki THB BATTLE" ITS BANKS k ' I,
1 wft COVERED WITH WOUNDED 'ft- M v
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WWaJll III Iv wmjAMMji hi
Uldgeand Lookout Mountain which has
neon on exhibition In various nitioa im
given a good Idea of the country and
inu oaiiie scenes.
It was at Chlckamauga, where
Thomas stood "like a rock," that Gar
field distinguished himself. He was
chief of staff to Hosecrans, nnd was
sent by that general to warn Thomas
that Longstreot, with his 70,000 men.
was marching to turn the right Hank of
Thomas' army. Garfield stnrted nir
with a captain anil two orderlies. They
ran Into an ambush, the captain was
woundinl, the two orderlies killed nnd
Garfield was the only one left to go on
with the all-Important messiige. This
was the tightest of all tight places that
Garfield had ever been In. lie Jammed
bis lips together, muttered "Now Is your
time, be u man, Jim Garfield," ami
spurred ahead In a zig-zag course across
the field to avoid the bullets. Ills horse,
a tine animal, was struck, but It was
only a tlesh wound, and It was like an
other dig of the rowels. Garfield reach
ed Col. MoCwk, got a new horse and
made a fresh start over a Hre-swopt
field. This mount, too, was hit, but the
young chief of staff remained unhurt,
.lust as he got by Thomas" side the ani
mal gave one bound nnd fell dead. Gar
fielddellvcred the message and Thomas"
army was saved. Eighteen years from
that day Garfield, the President, lay
dead In the cottage at Klboron. The
Imilot of an assassin had done what
the bullets of the Confederates could
not no.
The month before
fought the battle of Wimhntehii. n lit.
tie to the west of Chattanooga. Gen.
iienry, who commanded the division
which made this lUrht bad n son. who
at the age of 17, had enlisted at the be
ginning of the war, nnd at this time
was a lieutenant of artillery. Just ns
Geary was aKnit to lead the charge,
his tuy fell dead before his priw lilt
by a bullet fair lu the forehead. The
father dismounted, kissed
NhIv, hardly ntlll from thi
death, then sprang to his horse and
led his men to the attack. The whole
war does not furnish a parallel to this
liistauee of fortitude.
Among those who fell at Chlckamau
ga was the Union General William H
Lytic. His close friend was Lieuten
ant Illchard Hcalf. an Englishman of
rare poetic powers, who killed himself
In California only a few wars ngo
The two friends often wrote" verses to
gether, and then submitted them to
each other for criticism. On the night
before Chlckamauga they were eugag.
ed lu this manner. Lytic had written
part of the poem bediming, "I am dy-
UNION SOLDIERS DIED.
lng, Egypt, dying," when
denly turned to Benlf.
Lytic sud-
"I shall never live to finish that.
he
sain.
"Nonsense," replied Ren If. "you'll
live to write volumes of that sort of
stuff."
"No," said Lytic, gravely. "As I was
talking to you a minute ngo 1 saw the
green hills of Ohio as they looked when
I stood umoni! them Th..v
recede from me in a weird wa v and as
thev dlsamuvn-.u! i ' "U .
they disappeared the ei,tivi..n'' ..,'
, - mien
od through me like lightning that I
should never see them again."
Kealf laughed at him, but after a
while liecnmo so filled with unnatural
fear that he begged him to finish the
versos. Before daybreak Lytic woke
his friend and read to him the complet
ed iH.em. Then, without another word
Lytic put it in his breast pocket t
dawn came the call to arms, nnd the
friends separated. When next Realf
saw the General. Lytic was among
the slain. Remembering what the Gen
eral had done with the poem Realf
searched the pocket nnd found' It, and
sent It to the General's friends.
A merrier Incident was the reply
Losecrans returned to a soldier, who
n, ,.,...i .. . '""'iuijKi nis
7' victlon that the army was not
i.iv!.mv oeiore rii rbn..,n i....
vu ivu, wnicn was the fact The
provision trnllw wroo.llUM ,
dlcrs the "cracker line." One day H8
Losecrans was riding through the
oamps a soldier called out to him with!
In hearing of all the others-
"More crackers and less review "
Kosy turned In his R;uldle
quIcV8fral0nsra"h.s
In the two mouths that elnnsed from
. hlcknmauga to the kittle of Chwa
nooga occurred the Incident which rt
of ,? f elVl"S ,h0 ,wd- to one
of he army orj.s. the FifhvnUi. Some
of the men who had Wn with Hooked
at Chnnoellorsville and shanM Tthl
defeat and retreat were telling of V
various corp. badges, and asked m
Irishman of the Fifteenth corps what
his badge was.
"Badge? Thafs that?" asked the
Irishman.
"Why some distinguishing mark by
whlcli eaeli corps can be told from the
rest For Instance, one of the corps at
Chancellors villi? hail the moon, or n
crescent. Another had a star, and so
on."
"Ah, yes, I see," said the Irishman.
"Bogorra, ye needed the moon and the
stars to show ye the way across the
Rappahannock. Here's our badge," slai
piug his cartridge box. "Forty rounds."
The reply was so apt that Logan, up
on hearing of It, ndopted the cartridge
box, with the figures 40 on It as the
badge of the Fifteenth Corps.
After the disaster at Chlcknmnuga,
Grant came down anil took command.
In the two months' wait the pickets of
the two armies got Into quite friendly
relations. They exchanged irreetlngs.
and sometimes swapped tobacco across
the lines. One day Grant rode uV.vn
to the Union pickets. One of the guard
saw him and, according to the military
custom, called out:
"Turn out the guard for the com
manding general."
"Never mind the guard," returned
the General, not caring for any fuss
and anxious to spare his men any trou
ble. Just across the little creek were
the pickets of the Johnnies.
"Turn out the guard for tho com
nmnding general. Gen. Grant." some
Johnny called out. Out came tho im,,i
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thesalute-as he w
and presented nrms. flmm ,.i
v..,.uv ItLU ,111-11
otild one from his own
men. Never In the war was this extra
ordinary scene duplicated,
GLORIOUS VICTORIES.
On Nov. 13 came the battle of Or
chard Knob, on tae L' lth Lookout Moun
tain and on the next day Missionary
Ridge. Every school boy and girl knows
about three last two battles. Lookout
Mountain Is famed In song and story
as the Battle Above the Clouds. The
part of the Union army which was not
Included In the assaulting column were
on the plains below, cheering as men
never cheered before. All the bands in
the army were massed down there play
lug as the attack was made. They say
bands never nre taken Into battle' As
a rule this is so, and whenever there
; I'uvpii ii is h uiing to be re-
j to the life to come. The ne
an exception It Is a thing to be re-
morning, when the mak ,f
wnis gained nnd a squad advanced with
the Stars and Stripes, planting the staff
on the highest point, the enthusiasm
below was unfunded and contributed
to the stIU more thrilling event of that
For the storming of Missionary R!de
was not on Grant's program. Grant,
watching the battle on Orchard Knob
turned to Thomas, and said, almost
angrily.
"Thomas, who ordered those men up
the ridge V
"I dou"t know," replied Thomas, In
Ms usual deliberate manner. "I did
not. m
"Did yen, order them up?" Grant asK.
ed Gen. Gordon Granger.
"No," said Granger, "they starts!,
without oiiiers. When those ftHll
get started all hell can't stop thefiT"
"Some one will .suffer If it ,iw11,
turn out well," was all the ooUmi '
Grant made. But everything turned
out well, and Missionary rm "
ours.
Benjamin F. Taylor, the war eorre.
spondout, whose son was In the fight ;1,
a soldier, saw nnd reported the batfe
Thoodoro R. Davis, one of Harpers art
ists, also was there for his paper. nJ
so the story of those November rtavj
comes down to us from the pencils 'of
those specially gifted In description a
en as irom the drier official reports.
TOUGH, BUT HAS AHEART.
One Touch of Life In the Crondci
Streets of a City.
He was an every-luy tough, bun
necked, square-jawed, ml of face and
with his hair cropped short in the faslj.
ion that rules at Slug Sing and s 1$.
mired of Battle Iluw. Any one uould
have told It at a glance. Th iii.i.,
nnd wrathful face of the pollceniaa
who brought him to Mulberry street ;o
be "stood up" before the detectives la
the hope that there might be something
against him to aggravate the offense uf
beating an officer with his own dub
bore witness to It. It told a fanrllar
story. The pr&onor's gang had started
a light on the avenue, probably wlt i a
scheme of ultimate robbery in vitw,
nnd the police had come upon it unex
pectedly. The rest had got away
an assortment of promiscuous bruise.
The "Kid" stood ills ground and wen',
down with two "cops" on top of him,
after a valiant battle. In which In. ii-ni
performed the feat, that entitled him
to Honorable mention henceforth in tlie
felonious annals of the gang. There
was no surrender in his sullen look as
he stood before the desk, his hard fare
disfigured further by a streak of luilf.
dried blood, reminiscent of the night's
encounter. The fight had gone against
him that was all light. There was a
time for getting square. Till then he
was man enough to hike his medicine;
let them do their wrost.
It was there to read, plain as could
I'c. In his set Jaivs nnd dogged bearing
ns became out, numbered now and In
dexed in the rogue's gallery, nnd start
ed for the police court between two
eliicers. It chanced that I wns going
the same way. and Joined company. l!c
Rldes, I have certain theories concern
ing toughs which my friend, the ser
geant, says are rot. nnd I wns not
averse to testing them on the kid.
But the kid wns u bad subject. lie
replied to my friendly advances with a
u.uuereu curse, or not at all. and uiset
nil my notions in the most reckless
way. Conversation had ceased before
we were half way across to Broadway:
He "wanted no guff," and I left him
to his meditations respecting his. de
fenseless state. At Broadwnv there
was n Jam of trucks, and we stopped at
the corner to wait for nn opening.
It all happened so qulcklv that onlv a
confused picture of It 1s In my mind 'till
tins day. A sudden start, n leap, nnd a
warning cry, nnd the kid had wrenched
himself loose. He wns free. I was
dimly conscious of a rush of blue nnd
brass; nnd then I saw-tlie whole street
saw-a child, a toddling bnbv. In the
middle of the i-in.o,i . .
front of the coming car. It reached out
Its tiny hand toward the madlv claim
ing bell nnd crowed. A scream rose
wild and piercing above the tumult;
men struggled with a frantic woman
on the curb, nnd turned their heads
away
And then there stood the kid, with the .
child la his nrms, unhurt. I see Him H
now. as he set It down gently as any-,,
woman, trying, with lingering touch,
to unclasp the grip of the bnbv hand
upon his rough finger. I see tlie hard
look coming hack Into his face ns the
policeman, red and out of breath, twist
ed the nipper on his wrist with a half
uncertain aside to me: "Them tough
there nln't no depending on nohow.",
sullen, defiant, planning vengeance. I
ftT I1,1111 awav t0 RuHinn and
thief. The police blotter said so.