Clues and Answers to Box #4

Location: Allatoona Pass

Winner: Jenny Bridges

Clue #1 - “Next to this wall a tree took a fall”

The box was hidden next to a fallen tree on the Allatoona Pass trail next to the stone wall!

Clue #2 - “You can look up or around, but I’m not on the ground.”

This implied that the box was not on the ground and that you would need to look up from the path/ground and around you. It was on a little ledge in the stone wall!

Clue #3 - “Wave the answer back to heaven, By Thy grace we win!”

This is a lyric from the hymn “Hold the Fort” which was inspired by the Battle of Allatoona Pass! "Hold the Fort!" was written in 1870 by Philip Paul Bliss, an evangelist and composer, after he heard the story of the Union defense of Allatoona Pass told in a Sunday School class. The use of signal flags to send messages from Kennesaw Mountain near Atlanta to the threatened garrison holding Allatoona Pass was held forth as an example of how Jesus Christ signals Christians to hold strong to their beliefs, for "He is coming."

Bonus Clue “5 to surrender or 5 to remember.”

On the morning of October 5, 1864, following a two hour bombardment from Major John D. Myrick's artillery on Moore's Hill located 1,200 yards to the south, Major General Samuel G. French sent Major David W. Sanders under a flag of truce with message to the Federal commander and Allatoona: “Sir, I have the forces under my command in such a position that you are surrounded and, in order to avoid a needless effusion of blood, I call upon you to surrender your forces at once, and unconditionally. Five minutes will be allotted you to decide.“ They did not surrender and it turned into a 5 hour battle on October 5th!