Macon Weekly Telegraph 22 January 1892 NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST The Jackson Artillery! "Here is something I want every Confederate soldier in Macon to see, and every Federal for the matter of that." "I want them to see it because I want them to know that the daughter of an old Confederate, catching the inspiration from old war stories and these war relics, has combined natural genius with natural sentiment, and has painted these relics of the Jackson Artillery with an artist's brush and the spirit of a soldier's daughter." It was Captain Tom Massenburg who spoke. He stood before an oil painting of "Relics of the Jackson Artillery." Only a flag, dear to the Southerner's heart, torn by the pitiless storms of leaden hail that poured upon its folds as it waved proudly in the breeze at Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Chicamauga, Missionary Ridge, Mobile or Atlanta. Only a bared sabre, whose jagged edge tells of something more real than the holiday exercis...
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