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tinua of history, for the modern labor version of the old song is as faithful to Bliss's gospel original as the original was—in its defensive posture—to historical fact.
Notes
- The best published account of the battle is Fred E. Brown's "The Battle of Allatoona," Civil War History, vol. 6 (September 1960), pp. 277–297; more attention to signaling is given, however, in Paul J. Scheips, "The Battle of Allatoona: A Preliminary Draft" (unpublished).
- The railway, still owned by the state of Georgia but leased to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, had to be relocated in 1948 because of a dam and reservoir project that created Allatoona Lake on the site of the old railroad pass. Letters: A. C. Randall, secretary, Georgia Public Service Commission, Atlanta, to Paul J. Scheips, 30 January 1956; and D. S. Huggins, secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, Nashville, Tennessee [a former lessee], to Scheips, 1 February 1956. See also Moody's Transportation Manual (1966, 1968, 1969), pp. 251, 268, 591, respectively.
- These two messages are in United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880–1901) [hereafter cited as OR, all references being to series 1], vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 78.
- OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 97. On the several messages, see John Q. Adams, "Hold the Fort!" in War Sketches and Incidents as Related by the Companions of the Iowa Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (1898), vol. 2, pp. 167–168 [texts of two of the messages slightly different from the official published versions]; Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet (1958), pp. 426, 427; J. Willard Brown, The Signal Corps, U.S.A., in the War of the Rebellion (1896), p. 547; and Alonzo L. Brown, History of the Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers During the Great Rebellion 1861–1865 (1892), pp. 593–594. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (14th edition, 1968), p. 705a, describes "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (or "Hold the fort, for I am coming!" [p. 777b]) as the "popular version" of what Sherman signaled from Kennesaw on 5 October 1864, but asserts that he actually signaled: "Hold out. Relief is coming." Earlier, on 3 October, Sherman advised Lieutenant Colonel John E. Tourtellotte at Allatoona that if Hood "moves up toward Allatoona I will surely come in force" (OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 53).
- On Frankenberry, see Alfred M. Claybaugh, "'Hold the Fort—I am coming,'" in Out West, new series, vol. 1 (April 1911), pp. 305–309; A. D. Frankenberry, "Visiting War Scenes," National Tribune (Washington, D. C.), 16 January 1896, p. 2; Frankenberry's records of service in Company K, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and in the Signal Corps, Record Group [RG] 94, National Archives; Mrs. Mary A. Frankenberry's pension file, Widow Certificate [WC] 685711, RG 15, National Archives; J. Willard Brown, The Signal Corps, p. 773 and plate opposite p. 496 [Brown, p. 773, gives Kennesaw Mountain as Frankenberry's station in September
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