Dale County AlArchives Photo document.....Memories of the CW by W.E. Preston nee Mathews pg 25 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Thacker http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00033.html#0008100 July 3, 2004, 11:54 am Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/dale/photos/documents/gph489memories.jpg Image file size: 223.1 Kb Page 25 back to Tunnel Hill and had a fight on rockeyface mountain. We piled up a line of big rocks along our line on top of the mountain and when the yankees would charge rolled the rocks down on them and the rocks would knock trees and everything down in their descent, they flanked us and we fell back to Daton, to Resacca, and had a fight in the ditches, to New Hope Church (Dallas) where my father lost an arm, to Kennesaw mountain and fought some days, fell back to Atlanta crossing the river on a pontoon, fought all around there , to Jonesburrow and fought one day, could see Atlanta burning that night as we fell back on Lovejoy, had a fight there, to Palmetto, back to Dalton, to Tunnel Hill, where we toreup, piled and burned the cross ties, and bent the iron railes across the burning ties, then to Lafayet Ala, File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/dale/photos/documents/gph489memories.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb