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VWliM, AM 2. IGranville as it was by Minnie Hite MoodyMeadownookTo look at M now. (rum the ‘I Dunk R wasenough 10 notice that iu typKally Southern white colimns go all the way around the house. and that aIt nukes sense (or a plant house built in 1833. Vi*onlt;tree served as a hiahpost in iu rigfa mood would pnckly leave* of a hollyMeadownook was bIron idenrn. Georgia, by oxart Theway* tie* a smalt cemetery containing the grate* of Altaon date*, to this day meticulously cared (or. If a stray gol( boll lands there, you bftujAddrcpnhackunth ttaway.l-ong before I ever knew I would have the privilege crf living in that historic house. I was writing about Cblonel Alston fee The At lantt Journal SwidayMagaiuie. and a definitive article about bun (the only one ever written) fa The Georgia Renew (University of Georgia. Athens. Geagia.) issue erf Winter. 1961.I got interested in him. rot because of his spectacular death. March II. I8?9.ina«i-calledduel with his InendCapnainbdwardCo*. (they lie buncd not forty feet apart near the Btrry Street gate of theappears to be ridiculously near the front doa. A holly tree by the frint door? you may »k. Whyonetnh?s. lUpoch pillars, .brought froncotton, much of it to bccone. ui the 1890s. East Lake, the Country Club and golf tourse of the Atlanta Athletic Club. Beneath a grove of trees between the 7th and Hdi fair-Decatur Cemetery) but because I was intrigued by the fact that Colonel Aliaon. an officer, spent m«h of the penod of the War Be tween the States, at Camp Chase. Columbus, Ohio, m which were incarcerated conmen prisoners of war Confederate officers properly on Johnvn's Is-ty Bay. Lake Ene.Hie flory is too Itmg and involved to set down in this space. Right now it is enough to say that during her husband's absence from home. Colonel Alston's wife andten fa Federal General John M. Schofield. One night while he was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, a New Yoek mercenary soldier, at duty beside the front doa. was sha and killed by a Confederate sharp shooter high in a tree west ol Meadownook—shot through the deer's sidelight, by wtuch the sen-try apparently had been seated, the story goes, lighting a cigar, thus making a target. When General Schofield came downstau* in the morning, there by his sentry, dead in a pool of blood which has. over mac than a cenury. defied every effort to remove it Our dog Pooch* always skirted thu area warily, and even after carpet was hal there, the dark outline of a dead man's body mysteriously appeared upon it. Dam* tackled a with the lloover sweeper, which conked out as soon as put into action. Said Itonmc wady. Us better leave hit be.The lovely curved railing bears to this day the saber slashes nude by tmpauent soldiers beating upon it. presumably tohotpsklnckno. much in demand by photographer* and vtsitos dur ing the penod of prem*re eicite«! a prc-IWO'slwise wasarate item indeed. As fa hoopskarts. I wore one only once, and that was enough. En route to the dance at the Atlanta Aialisv-num. a feature of the 'Go* With the Wild- premiere fesuvmes. I decided ana and fa all that a hocpskin had no pba m a 1939Over tlban built an boththe east and west sides of Meadownook. the one (* the east where the oigmal out kitchenof the house used to stand, an] gainers for haisc slaves The former butkr ’s pantry of the house as originally planned, is now the inadequate kitchen, rod the refng-eraia, (rarer, and modern kitchen neccssiues have to find room on the back porch, now screened m. be-the piazza's share of theamong you after a long and painful imprisonment I am ansious to he agam m the field I therefore call on all the sold*/* of my conmand to assemble at crce at the reidc/out which has ban established at thischeerfully, fa I want no man m my command who has to be sent to his Any by a provost-marshal. The wok before us will be arduous, and will require brave hearts and willing hands l-ei no man falter a delay, fanoumc istohebnt Everyman must bring his horse and gun who can.—Jrtm H Morgan. Brigadier General rtovisional Army Con-. R.A. Alston. Lieu-I and Acting A A.Of course what they wi was the disastrous r mto Ohio and Indiana. I had an ecvery room from which that Proclamation was issued But at long last that incredible war was over. Mala the Utc afternoon of Tuesday. July 25.1944. daughter Mary Lou had the pleasure of descending the curved staircase, to be married to Dr. Bartufome Genaro Pncai of Asuncion. Paraguay, before the Italian mart* mamd in the south parkr. And. durmg the 1940's. I hod the pleasure of writing three novel* m the north park*, which served as my office, the same rixxn in which Colonel Alston aid Gen era! John Hunt Megan (yes. the same guy who so dramatically escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary) prepared the fdlowmg Proclima-uai: SOLDIERS: I wn once morekilled at Greensville. Tennessee. Cokmel A Hun was at Meadow nock once again, growing cotton, practicing law. and serving as a member of the State Legislature from Dekalbe County. Then came the duagreemem . ithCagcam Cm over details erf the convict lease system, with Cos shooting and killing Colonel Alsacm in the Grant Building in downtown Atlanta. When I am away from Meadownook. the place haunts me like a hvmg pres me.Next week: -Our Dog POochie
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Granville Sentinel
Granville, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1990
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Janet P.
NA, 06 Feb 2017
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