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324 GEORGIA AND GEOEGIANS
the artistic standpoint is unexcelled by any memorial in the Forest City,
whose monuments are world-renowned.
Near the site of the present Central Railroad depot was the famous
Spring Hill redoubt where Count Pulaski and Sergeant Jasper fell
mortally wounded on October 9, 1779, during the ill-fated siege of
Savannah. Superb monuments to these immortal heroes have been
erected on Bull Street, the city's most beautiful thoroughfare. In
addition, Savannah chapter of the D. A. R. has commemorated the
heroic sacrifice which they made to liberty by placing a tablet on the
hill. Miss Margaret Charlton, daughter of Judge Walter G. Charlton,
of Savannah, and Miss Isabelle Harrison, a descendant of Colonel Isaac
Huger, who planned the assault on Spring Hill redoubt, unveiled the
tablet. On account of the distinguished part taken in the siege of
Savannah by Count D'Estaing, the French government deputed a spe
cial representative, Viscount Benoist d'Azy, an officer in the French
navy, to attend the ceremonies. Monsieur Jtisserand, the French am
bassador at Washington, and Governor Joseph M. Brown, of Georgia,
made short addresses.
On the old Augusta road, two miles above Savannah, is the scene of
one of the boldest captures in the history of the Revolution: Jasper
Spring. Here the brave Sergeant Jasper with the help of his comrade-
in-arms, Sergeant Newton, rescued six American soldiers from the Brit
ish officers who were taking them as prisoners of war from Ebenezer to
Savannah. It was the work of stratagem; but there is not to be found
in the annals of the war for independence a feat more courageous. The
spring has ever since been called by the name of the gallant Irishman
who later perished at the siege of Savannah. In 1902 Lachlin Mclntosh
Chapter of the D. A. B. marked the site by placing here a beautiful
memorial fountain to remind the wayfarer, while quenching his thirst,
of the brave exploit with which this little spring is forever associated
in Georgia's historic annals.