We will get millions of dollars by robbery alone, don't you see ?" PALMETTO "Hark from the tomb that doleful sound, My ears attend the cry." General J.B.Hood established his headquarters at Palmetto, Georgia, and here is where we were visited by his honor, the Honorable Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and the Right Honorable Robert Toombs, secretary of state under the said Davis.
Now, kind reader, don't ask me to write history.

I know nothing of history.

See the histories for grand movements and military maneuvers.
I can only tell of what I saw and how I felt.

I can remember now General Robert Toombs' and Hon.

Jeff Davis' speeches.