Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1904 — Thomas at Lookout Mountain. [ARTICLE]

Thomas at Lookout Mountain.

An anecdote concerning General George H. Thomas, the hero of Chickamauga, was related by a clergyman. He told it to illustrate how the valor of obscure soldiers goes to swell the fame of the great generals. “I sat next General Thomas in a Tennessee train shortly after the battle on Lookout mountain,” declared the clergyman, “when a crowd of soldiers on the platform began cheering for ‘the hero of Lookout mountain.’ ‘Stop that confounded noise!’ indignantly demanded Thomas of his adjutant. ‘I don’t know whether these men are in earnest and making a mistake, or whether they are guying me. The fact is, if I had had my way the battle would not have been fought. When I heard of the proposed attack it seemed exceedingly foolhardy, and I ordered , the plan abandoned, but in spite of me, while I was protesting, the men had stormed and captured those battlements above the clouds.’ **

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