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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64881)	6/11/2005 11:27:38 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Snowshoe Re: "Uncle Billy" That is a perfect example. Those rails are most likely wrought iron which acts just like mild steel under the influence of heat. Heated by that wood fire to maybe a dull cherry or less the rails just sag and deform under the stresses imposed by their own weight. Perfect example. When your Uncle Billy came through my neighborhood, indeed the same farm where I grew up my folks weren't there to greet him. The women, children and old folks had gone east ten miles to the farm of a relative that was hidden in the edge of the mountains, taking with them their mules, cows and horses which they hid up a hollow and all their cured hams and other valuables which they buried. As it turns out it was not actually Uncle Billy who visited the homestead but General Schofield and the Army of the Ohio which formed your Uncle Billy's left flank, Uncle Billy and the main body of the Union Army passing through eight miles to the west. The house and barns weren't burned but everything all around was looted and destroyed, right down to the chickens. The burning started at Atlanta. After Uncle Billy passed through in the spring of 1864 the Yanks made no attempt to occupy the area other than a few garrisons along the railroad. My family remained in the hills with the relatives but a year later, about two weeks before Lee's surrender a battle was fought right on the family farm between 600 Yankee garrison troops and about 300 Confederate irregulars known as the Georgia Scouts under a Captain Williamson. My great grandfather who was just a young boy at the time served with the Scouts as a "loader" meaning he stood in the line loading muskets for the men. He lost a finger in the battle when a hot musket he was loading went off, taking off his fourth finger on his left hand. I have pictures of his injuries, taken about 1910. The battle, by the way was a sort of a draw. The Yanks lost maybe 100 men and after two days of battle declared victory and returned to Dalton. The Scouts remained in control of the area and pursued the Yanks back to Dalton. Captain Williamson died in the battle. Slagle