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 pay my tribute to the mountaineers of East Tennessee. During the war they suffered the greatest of hardships and at its close the successful North abandoned them and almost at once began to turn its face in homage to the Stonewall Jacksons and the Lees. The speech, pointing out the relations between the two states and the strength of Andrew Jackson, was received in the best of spirit and much commended through the South.

We visited the battlefields of Chattanooga, Orchard Knob and rode over the grounds at Chickamauga. There was so much breaking up of the lines at Chickamauga and the movements of the two armies there were so involved that the battle is difficult to understand. We went to the top of Lookout Mountain, where was fought the Battle above the Clouds, in a trolley car lifted almost vertically to the crest, an experience which has its own uncertainties. In Chattanooga we discovered a particularly attractive brand of sugar maple candy blended with nuts, and each year since Colonel Walter T. Bradley remembers to have a box of it sent to Pennypacker's Mills upon Christmas.

From Chattanooga we went to Shiloh, in which battle the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, the only one from any of the Eastern states, participated on the part of the North. Shiloh is most difficult of access and the trip involved a ride upon a steamboat from John son ville of about one hundred and fifty miles up the Tennessee River. Shiloh had for me a special interest. Here Grant ventured his army across the river and, had it not been for the fortunate arrival of Buell, he would have been driven into it by the rebel General A. Sidney Johnston, and he and his career would have been closed at its very beginning. In command of the advance, in the “Hornets' Nest,” where the fighting was most severe, was Major General Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, whose grandmother was a Pennypacker. He and what was left of his division were nearly all captured. At Rh