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In 1895 Frankenberry returned to Kennesaw Mountain with other old signalmen to send once again, for old time's sake, the historic message to hold the fort. With him he had what he believed was the same signal flag that had been used to send the original message, the recollections of which were perhaps the most singular of his life.^[8]

Still later, on 13 September 1913, George Carr Round, who had been a signal officer during the Civil War and was then president of the

Allatoona Pass on the Western & Atlantic Railroad, looking north, as it was in the old days. Most of the fighting on 5 October 1864 took place around the high ground to the left. (National Archives photo from United States War Department General Staff negative in National Archives.)