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Hardee, Charles Seton Henry
Reminiscences and Recollections of Old Savannah
131 pages
Compiled 1928 by Martha Gallandet Waring.
no. np.
Publishers and printers not named.
Page 19
"I was sent to old Franklin College, Athens Georgia, in
August 1844, when I was 14 years .old:RAA:.:4At Augusta I tool the
the Georgia Railroad to Union Point 90 miles away, from Union
Point to Athens on a branch road of,40 mils, only very recently
built. Five nights a week the passenger service on this road
was by horsecar, and was an all night trip, and not a very com-
fortable one either There was a long bench running the
whole length of the car on each side. On the sixth night the
car was hitched to .a freight train consisting of a baggage car
and a freight car, and the whole attached to a small steam
engine called "The Fire Fly." 'At one very steep ascent the
train would be stopped and the engine would be fired up. When
it was thought it h4 steam enough to climb over the top of the
grade, she sould be started off to make the climb. Often before
reaching the top the engine stopped for lack of steam power and
would roll back to the bottom of the incline to the starting
point to be fired again. This procedure was sometimes repeated
three or four times before the -Fire Fly went over the top.
Page 21
"I recall a party given by Miss Callie Lumpkin, daughter
of John Henry Lumpkin, who afterward became Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia My 1:44her Sydenham had entered
the University...Altho' he was only 16 yrs ald and did not know a
single note of music he was kind of musical genius. At this party
he played a descriptive piece of his own composition called "The