Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1915 — “HOLD THE FORT” MAN DIES [ARTICLE]

“HOLD THE FORT” MAN DIES

Samuel Wagner Wigwagged the Famous Message for General Sherman. Terre Haute, Ind. —When in the Civil war General John M. Corse, with a small force was holding Altoona pass, in the Kenesaw mountains, Tennessee, and signaled General Sherman for succor, the latter general caused the famous message, "Hold the fort, for I am coming,” to be wigwagged, Samuel Wagner, who died recently at the age of seventy-three at Paris, 111, did the wigwagging from a limb of a tall tree. He was a member of an Illinois regiment, from which state General Corse was accredited.