Georgia BIOS:  Charles Seton Henry Hardee   
   U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers' Project (Folklore
   Project, Life Histories, 1936-39); Manuscript Division, Library of
   Congress.Copyright status not determined.
   
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   Hardee, Charles Seton Henry
   
   Reminiscences and Recollections of Old Savannah
   
   131 pages
   
   Compiled 1928 by Martha Gallandet Waring.
   
   no. np.
   
   Publishers and printers not named.
   
   Page 19
   
   "I was sent to old Franklin College, Athens Georgia, in August 1844,
   when I was 14 years old. [DEL: [?] :DEL] At Augusta I took the the
   Georgia Railroad to Union Point 90 miles away, from Union Point to
   Athens on a branch road of 40 miles, only very recently built. Five
   nights a week the passenger service on this road was by horsecar, and
   was an all night trip, and not a very comfortable one either......
   There was a long bench running the whole length of the car on each
   side. On the sixth night the car was hitched to a freight train
   consisting of a baggage car and a freight car, and the whole attached
   to a small steam engine called "The Fire Fly." At one very steep
   ascent the train would be stopped and the engine would be fired up.
   When it was thought it [DEL: has :DEL] had steam enough to climb over
   the top of the grade, she sould be started off to make the climb.
   Often before reaching the top the engine stopped for lack of steam
   power and would roll back to the bottom of the incline to the starting
   point to be fired again. This procedure was sometimes repeated three
   or four times before the Fire Fly went over the top.
   
   Page 21
   
   "I recall a party given by Miss Callie Lumpkin, daughter of John Henry
   Lumpkin, who afterward became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
   Georgia...... My [DEL: borther :DEL] brother Sydenham......had entered
   the University... Altho' he was only 16 yrs old and did not know a
   single note of music he was kind of musical genius. At this party he
   played a descriptive piece of his own composition called "The
   0002Battle of Palo Alto.... Descriptive of the battle he would imitate
   the bugle calls, roll of drums, boom of cannon and the rattle of
   musketry. And when the battle was at its height there would be
   apparent confusion, but through it all you could occasionally hear the
   booming of the cannon, roar of the drums, bugle calls, and the rattle
   of musketry. As the battle ended, and the victory was won by the
   Americans, the piece ended with the [DEL: [?] :DEL] playing of Yankee
   Doodle in the liveliest and most spirited manner.
   
   "Another thing, I recall in regard to this party - a long table was
   set and a place assigned to each of us by name. At each place an [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] [iced?] cake was placed and on each cake a motto of some
   sort, [DEL: [of?] :DEL] two lines [of?] rhyme. The one next to me was
   this: "Grace by name and Grace by nature, Oh Grace thou art a charming
   creature. " And mine was: "In books, nor love, nor courting tardy, A
   nice young man is Charlie Hardee. "

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