Crossword-Solution: OPELIKA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But the moment I detect Johnston falling behind the Chattahoochee, I propose to cast off the effective part of this cavalry division, after crossing the Coosa, straight for Opelika, West Point, Columbus, or Wetumpka, to break up the road between Montgomery and Georgia.

But, preliminary thereto, I had ordered General Rousseau, at Nashville, to collect, out of the scattered detachments of cavalry in Tennessee, a force of a couple of thousand men, to rendezvous at Decatur, Alabama, thence to make a rapid march for Opelika, to break up the railroad links between Georgia and Alabama, and then to make junction with me about Atlanta; or, if forced, to go on to Pensacola, or even to swing across to some of our posts in Mississippi.

Generally he spoke in the careful, measured manner that was natural to him, but it was said that in Opelika, in Alabama, he had delivered a warning to the North, telling the Northern states that they would interfere with the Southern at their peril.

During the partial investment of Atlanta, General Rousseau joined General Sherman with a force of cavalry from Decatur, having made a successful raid upon the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad, and its branches near Opelika.

Sho’ is bad; us jes’ ’pends on de neighbors and borrys." Hattie Clayton *Interview with Hattie Clayton* —_Preston Klein_ _DE YANKS DRAPPED OUTEN DE SKY_ 'Aunt’ Hattie Clayton said, "I’se gittin’ erroun’ de ninety notch, honey, an’ I reckon de Kingdom ain’t fur away." She lives in a tiny cabin not far from Opelika.