Run, Johnny, Run!

Run, Johnny, Run!. . Before the war, this small clearing held a typical north Georgia "dog-trot" cabin. If you lived here, you would know to be careful. The cabin's center breezeway was open to dogs, possums, skunks, or anything else that might trot through!, The Hardage family built the dog-trot in the 1840s, but soon moved to a larger house nearby. With 14 children, land, and a family-run sawmill, they were a big part of the New Salem community., As fighting increased, the Hardages and their neighbors endured soldiers camping in their fields and bullets flying as they picked butterbeans. Finally, they fled to Stone Mountain and camped in railroad boxcars with other war refugees. Among the refugees was the Reverend Springer, the preacher at New Salem Baptist Church., When the armies left, this tiny community, church, houses, barns, gardens, fields and trees, and sawmill, was almost totally destroyed., (captions) , "Miss Lucinda" Hardage (1848–1940) shared vivid memories of the war years with Civil War historians and helped identify many landmarks at Kennesaw. In 1939, at age 91, she raised the American flag over the visitor center to dedicate the new Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park., The cabin is a rendition based upon best available information.