Show r r OLD HOMES IN DIXIE I I I I The I Ho Homestead o Neat r Savannah nn a Mecca for Sightseers In uJ n n SpecIal Correspondence Savannah Nor No Whal seems to 10 be bea a of interest In the fate rale ot of the numerous old homestead scattered through Ih the south Is I now taking place In the minds of at atman man many people Not from Crom mo tives hu has this sprung the term hating hardly In an bred at all Into the considering of the subject To the traveler along the highways of Virginia and oth other er u of ilk Southern States the of once imposing and festive but now weather wather worn and deserted mansions Where society and gayety ayt held full sway WI Is one typically or of the metamorphosis In southern home life lite after aller the Civil war warThe warThe The old C homestead near hear Sd Sa vennah is I one on ut of the th first that will be restored to a such that the most moat If not an all or of it former prestige can be retained regained Tine Th dwell dwelling Ing Is In conjunction with its III Inge one of Savannahs star tar exhIbItion places St are always guided I there thre by 11 friends who ar are apt to consid consider er a visit to their cUr city Incomplete with without Ih out Ih the trip The Th onlY remaining rota Ia tive of Rodney the builder or of orthe the house houPe has ha already isid aid out exten extensive sive ele plain for tor remodeling and when fulfilled will tAke hl hi family there to live Ih The Hermitage all as the old homestead I is usually called I le on the road about a halt half hours walk from the thO city It v limits It 11 stands well back bak from I the th roadway ant and the grounds elope down to the river which lows put past till the rear of the building The fhe hermitage has haM A history known to I hut but few and well worth relating Tra Trag leal ical In the extreme are th the a as I sedated with Ih the gloomy and echo Cho haunted structure Spirits from the I nether world are alit lahl t hold high revels and UnCAnny art are the tales talt or of I ghouls goblins ant and grinnIng ghosts that belated passersby claim to have hRc seen Nen during the wet wee ems hours hous but bul i luckily a as In the th CASe or of TAm OShanter Shan ter In his hla escape from the famous or of J Now do Ihy I speedy utmost Meg Mer And Anel win the keystone o of the brig brig There at them thou thy tall may toss 1011 tossA A running stream they the dare not I Towing water the picturesque Savan Savannah nah nab was WIB alIR always close at hand across which they could retreat The foundations o of the Hermitage were laid In 18 by Rainey then Ihen f a mIddle aged man He settled down to It a Ito lito ot of ease and enjoyment with hi his wIfe and sive young sons Ions As the years passed on and the boys bors merged Into manhood the elder McAlpin developed man many lie He be berame became came rame very ery morose and for tor days nt at a tIme lame would Jill all In one or of the upper r rosins muttering and nil talking to himself him self Ills IUs overseers were llen to punish fin any or of Ih the no matter how serious the o offense and he Insisted on hating the huge hure whipping put pout near the stables draped with white ribbons 0 as u 11 sign that It had entered on a sea Ilea season son lIOn of quiet and disuse Finally the civil war r was I u declared The cons their mother r having died several eral years tUM before ch d to rp re respond spond to 10 C call for troops The Th father and be benine Jp nine frantic when the or of tu fu lure ture lighters lighten left home The two elder none Leonard And Robert and fought Caught un under Ir Ie Lee At t the lIa Hie of Antietam thy they fU 11 white while lighting side lid sideby by side wounded When the news of their death ath re reached h the hI hInl nl Hermitage the Id aged and feeble sire Mira burst forth In III I a torrent or of rage rA against the northern Army ane and threat used to go 10 to wet war himself The next year ar 1893 1861 two more ot of Ih the boys bOYI met their doom They had gath erd under the standard or of Mosby lIb the famous ranger chieftain One OAt wal waa shot and killed In this the han lin tilly raid while till the other suffered death during durin n a sudden attack tack on Phil wagon trains train nut Bul a l son on remained Rne and he be wu was the recipient of Jt many from hits hit t faller tiring him to come home Ileum Henh heArt how over oer had been won by the glamour ot of little and amI the freemasonry ot of a sal 1101 Iller life lieu Ifs It persisted In staying with the rf or of the gray ray and that j but for lar to 10 die 1111 White While MII assisting in III the of Atlanta the Ihl legions that followed hr victorious In hIli d march marth to the sea It his JI head was blown from his hi shoulders by n buret ing shell The head of the family WitS was never seen In 10 public After this lie He shut himself In hi his house and kEpt hut but butone one servant to minister tu to his hll wants want II lie He would pay PI no attention to callers and lived n hermits hermit life until hIe death In 1871 I |