Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — The Lesson It Taught. [ARTICLE]

The Lesson It Taught.

Sunday-school Superintendent -Have you ever thought, my dear children, of the value of time, and how necessary it is we should seek shelter before it is too late? Children—Yes, sir. Superintendent—Yes, I heard to-day of a remarkable ease; a sailor entered: a mission chapel, became converted, determined to lead a better life, and the very next morning he' fell from a yard-arm and was killed; now, does not that look like a Providence ? Bright Boy—Yea, he took him when

Logan's Bn heeded Suggestion. Gen. Logan had tho advance of McPherson’s corps in the turning of Joe Johnston’s Dalton, (la., just at the opening of the Atlanta campaign. lie penetrated unobserved and unopposed to the north side of the Chattahoochee River at i esaca, where 1,5U0 dismounted Co federate cavalry held a fort guarding a bridge over the river on tbe only road by which Johnston could retreat to Atlanta. I ogan begged McPherson to let him ford the river, scale the fort, and burn the bridge or hold it, thus getting completely in the rear of Jolmaton. McPherson hesitated; Logan begged. McPherson spoke of tho danger; Logan insisted on the practicability of the movement. Mel herson spoke of the inevitable slaughter in the fording of tho stream; Logan descanted on the of the capture of the hart and the bridge, and offered to lead ono of his brigades in person. McPherson, overcautious, retreated during tho night, and the opportunity of driving Johnston from his base was lost. Tho writer says: “That night I slept with Logan in an ambulance —that is I slept part of the night in the ambulance, the rest 'of it under it. Logan was the maddest man I had ever seen. When ho finally got to sleep ho was so restless that I was practically pitched out of the ambulance and had to take refuge underneath it. The next day the needless but b oody battle of liesaca took p’ace, Johnston interposed once move between Sherman and Atlanta; the hundred days’ campaign to that place was rendered necessary, and McPherson paid for his temerity with his life in sight of tho promised point of the campaign. Gen. Sherman in his memoirs criticises McPherson for his too great caution. I have wondered what a change in the war the successful attack proposed by Logan would have wrought.”— Washington Letter.