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A crowd of pilgrims from the East and West continued to visit the holy sepulchre, and the adjacent sanctuaries, more especially at the festival of Easter; and the Greeks and Latins, the Nestorians and Jacobites, the Copts and Abyssinians, the Armenians and Georgians, maintained the chapels, the clergy, and the poor of their respective communions.
They were manly, soldierly, and honorable, where the Georgians were treacherous and brutal. We had nothing to complain of at the hands of the Alabamians; we suffered from the Georgians everything that mean-spirited cruelty could devise.
He might easily be misled, this youth." Aloud he said, "All I meant was that "'Holy joy about the earth is shed, And Holiness upon the deep, as one of your Edwardian poets has sung. That was a gifted generation: may it rest in peace. For I think it mostly perished in that calamitous war we had.... But your Georgians they too are a gifted generation, is it not so?"
They saw numbers daily leaving the province through mere necessity, and frankly told the Trustees, that nothing could prevent it from being totally deserted, but the same encouragements with their more fortunate neighbours in Carolina. That the Trustees might have a just view of their condition, the Georgians stated before them their grievances, and renewed their application for redress.
He also wrote a work, "Georgians," 1855, containing much valuable matter relating to the early settlers of his state. James Johnson, twenty-fifth Governor , was grandson of a Scottish immigrant. He rendered great service to his state in its reconstruction after the war. As Governor his administration was faultless, and the New York Sun declared his inauguration "worthy of Thomas Jefferson."
Law, with his Alabamians, was closing around the southern base of greater Round Top, while Robertson, with his three Texas regiments and one Arkansas, and Anderson with his Georgians, were pushing their way through thickets and over boulders to the front base of the Round Tops and the gorges between the two.
The country on our right, through which Hood had to manoeuver, was very much broken and thickly studded with trees and mountain undergrowth, which delayed that General in getting in battle line. Anderson's Georgians, with Hood's old Texas Brigade under Robertson, was on McLaws' immediate right, next to Kershaw. Law's Alabama Brigade was on the extreme right, and made the first advance.
Miss Van Tuyn, enthroned among distinguished and definite Georgians in a nimbus of smoke, presently began to wonder what had become of a certain young man.
Among the most eager was a regiment of Georgians arrived but recently with the reinforcements. Many of the men, speaking from the obscurity of the crowded ranks, did not scorn to hurl questions at their officers. "Are we goin' to fight the Yankees at last?" "I'd rather take my chances with the bullets than march any more." "Lead us down an' give us a chance at 'em."
On the 8th of November, Jackson defeated the Indians with great slaughter at Talladega. Late in November, General Floyd with nine hundred Georgians and four hundred friendly Indians attacked the hostile savages at Autossee and drove them from the holy ground. Weatherford, the Tecumseh of the South, was attacked, on the 23d of November, at Econachaca.
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