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Lightning Slinger of Andersonville (Paperback)
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Lightning Slinger of Andersonville (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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After the Civil War, railroads were built to link the Atlantic and
Pacific Coasts of the reunited nation. South of the Mason-Dixon
line, work gangs were either Negro or Irish. The O'Dunn family was
employed for three generations as Trackmen that built or maintained
railroad tracks in the Southern states. Teddie O'Dunn was a
telegrapher-depot agent, or "lightning slinger." Born in Tennessee,
the youngest child of a rowdy Irish father and an orphan girl
raised in West Virginia, he was named for President Teddie
Roosevelt. His boyhood days were spent in the Civil War prison camp
in the town of Andersonville, Georgia. He learned telegraphy at the
knee of a kindly woman agent-operator at the Central of Georgia
Railroad Depot. Sixty miles southeast of Andersonville was a Colony
City, Fitzgerald. Teddie went to Fitzgerald to work as a lightning
slinger on the railroad connecting the new town to Atlanta and
Florida. His family admonished him to have no association with
Yankee girls that paraded the sidewalks of Fitzgerald. But Teddie
was lightning struck, so to speak, by a small bundle of charm, the
granddaughter of a Calvary man in General Sherman's army. Their
trials, tribulations and heartaches through their years fill this
book
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