Word: chickamauga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tidy farm near Chickamauga, Ga., the Negro Masonic lodge held its meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations. Then Brother Haslerig, the chairman, called on his house guest, Brother James R. Crawford, to offer a few remarks "preferably regarding the status of our people back in Pittsburgh." But it was getting late, so the visitor from Pittsburgh just stood and took...
Meanwhile Johnny's true sweetheart, Nell, has remained unmarried. Now she promises to wait for Johnny and does so, during the months when he is with the Union Army from Chickamauga to Savannah. But when Johnny is wounded, the report gets back that he is dead. Nell marries Garwood and dies in childbirth...
...famed Confederate General James Longstreet, cried: "Bury it [the bill] too deep for resurrection. Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn that the old Georgia, the great Georgia of Hill and Stephens and Toombs, when Kennesaw Mountain was a peak of fire and Chickamauga a field of blood, still lives to claim an honorable place in the sisterhood of 48, constituting one nation, one people, America indivisible and unconquerable...
Here in New York, researcher Margaret Quimby correlated all this material and ran down 101 other points. For example, I saw one very interesting three-page report of hers on the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga-which found its way into three published lines. (And of course the file held dozens of reports from the AP-a service which goes to no other magazine except ours...
...army of Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down in that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where the living Marines grew so tired they lay down beside their dead friends and slept under shell fire. Tunisia seemed another world, another time almost...