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Present day...
My mom, my three dughters, and I were flying Delta from Nashville to Sarasota, Florida by way of Atlanta. At Nashville we learned our crew had got in late and needed so many hours of down time. So leaving 2 hours late would make us late in Atlanta and miss our flight to Sarasota. We were told they could get us to Tampa and have ground transportation to Sarasota. On our way to Tampa we were told we were going to Sarasota due to a storm over the airport and low fuel. This is where we wanted to go in the first place. We taxied to a gate but were not allowed off saying the gate way was not working. They shut down the plane and it became very hot. Shannon started to vomit on herself. There were no barf bags and we could not get to a bathroom due to the long lines. After sitting for an hour they flew us back to Tampa and we got a taxi back down to Sarasota. What should have taken only 4 hours took 12.
Past...
Eliza Andrews and her sister Metta are trying to get out of Sherman's path so they set out from Washington to Macon, Georgia, December 19 - 24 1864.
" It is only eleven miles from Camack to Mayfield but the road was so bad and the train so heavy that we were nearly two hours in making the distance. Some of the seats were without backs aand some without bottoms and the roadbed so uneven that in places the car tilited from side to side as if it was going to upset and spill us out."
When they get to Mayfield they board a spring wagon with no top and start for Sparta. It starts to rain. In Sparta they board a plantation wagon, no cover, and no springs, and head toward Gordon.
"The fileds are trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs and cattle that the invaders had wantonly shot down. The stench in some places was unbearable."
They stop at an inn and have supper consisting of real coffe and a jar of pickles. The room Eliza and Metta are given has holes in the roof. It rains all night. Metta is now ill. The next day they set off yet again...
" The Yankees had thrown dead cattle in the ford, so that we had to drive about at random in the mud and water to avoid these uncanny abstructions... We floundered around in the swamps a long time and at last found our train."
At nightfall, within 2 miles of Macon, the train stops at a bridge weakened by the rain. Many decide to walk but Metta is too ill. Gordon passengers want to the train to head back.
"High words passed, pistols, and swords are drawn on both sides and a general fight seemed about to take place...and then my nerves all unstrung by what I had suffered during the night, I turned up and cried like a baby. It was well I did for my tears brought the men to their senses."
A train comes from Macon and the sisters decide to walk across the trestle.
" It was 80 feet high and a half mile long..part of the flooring of the bridge was washed down stream and our only foothold was a narrow plank hardly wider than my two hands."
Once in Macon, Metta is told she has the measles.
My mom, my three dughters, and I were flying Delta from Nashville to Sarasota, Florida by way of Atlanta. At Nashville we learned our crew had got in late and needed so many hours of down time. So leaving 2 hours late would make us late in Atlanta and miss our flight to Sarasota. We were told they could get us to Tampa and have ground transportation to Sarasota. On our way to Tampa we were told we were going to Sarasota due to a storm over the airport and low fuel. This is where we wanted to go in the first place. We taxied to a gate but were not allowed off saying the gate way was not working. They shut down the plane and it became very hot. Shannon started to vomit on herself. There were no barf bags and we could not get to a bathroom due to the long lines. After sitting for an hour they flew us back to Tampa and we got a taxi back down to Sarasota. What should have taken only 4 hours took 12.
Past...
Eliza Andrews and her sister Metta are trying to get out of Sherman's path so they set out from Washington to Macon, Georgia, December 19 - 24 1864.
" It is only eleven miles from Camack to Mayfield but the road was so bad and the train so heavy that we were nearly two hours in making the distance. Some of the seats were without backs aand some without bottoms and the roadbed so uneven that in places the car tilited from side to side as if it was going to upset and spill us out."
When they get to Mayfield they board a spring wagon with no top and start for Sparta. It starts to rain. In Sparta they board a plantation wagon, no cover, and no springs, and head toward Gordon.
"The fileds are trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs and cattle that the invaders had wantonly shot down. The stench in some places was unbearable."
They stop at an inn and have supper consisting of real coffe and a jar of pickles. The room Eliza and Metta are given has holes in the roof. It rains all night. Metta is now ill. The next day they set off yet again...
" The Yankees had thrown dead cattle in the ford, so that we had to drive about at random in the mud and water to avoid these uncanny abstructions... We floundered around in the swamps a long time and at last found our train."
At nightfall, within 2 miles of Macon, the train stops at a bridge weakened by the rain. Many decide to walk but Metta is too ill. Gordon passengers want to the train to head back.
"High words passed, pistols, and swords are drawn on both sides and a general fight seemed about to take place...and then my nerves all unstrung by what I had suffered during the night, I turned up and cried like a baby. It was well I did for my tears brought the men to their senses."
A train comes from Macon and the sisters decide to walk across the trestle.
" It was 80 feet high and a half mile long..part of the flooring of the bridge was washed down stream and our only foothold was a narrow plank hardly wider than my two hands."
Once in Macon, Metta is told she has the measles.
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