Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-13
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since this war began ungenerous filings at OF ma
grant Misrepresentation of Carolina soldiers
or the people Of this State But the following false
Ind ihberal representations of our soldiers ana
people is an exception. 1t first appeared in the
Charleston Courier, and is attributed to acorres-
pendent of that paper, who is in some way con-
nected with Gen. Evans brigade. We make a few
extracts for comment The writer, anxious to cover
up the profanity attributed to the General on the
occasion of the demand of Foster to surrender gives
what he calls true history of that interview, as
follows:
0DFcrr ~ understand sir (bowing) that of your
troops have indicated wish to surrender and have been
detached to receive the surrender by General FOSTER
presume, sir, that you are General Evans"
Gen. t. al am-who are you, STRIP
ODfcer with q supercilCus air. am COL Potter SIR,
Of the LIST Volunteers and attached to the
staff Of Gen. Foster"
Gen. al EN- not aware, sir, that any Of my troops
desire to surrender do believe there is South
lnia1 under my command who has any intention Of doing
Give my compliments to Gen Foster aDd tell him he
knows Gen. Evans too well to- suppose that he will ever
surrender"
Co., p HThen YOU intend n renew the battle.
Gen. "Yes sir-tO fight nOtO and here P'
o. " Do you mean to begin at once, sir or do you
wish time to remove your wouuded?"
Gen "Well, sir, you may say to Gen. Foster that II
he will give an hour and half to remove the women
and children from the town shall then be ready for him"
hand which he doubtless intended polite mode OF say
Here this flippant writer evidently designs to in
innate that Gen. Evans would not endorse the
courage of any of his command but South Caro-
linians. We do not believe the General made any
such remark. Most of the North Carolina prison
ers taken at Kinston by the Yankees were in Col.
Maetts battalion of conscrpts and from all sources
except from this writer we learn that none Of the
troops did better fighting than the conscrpts. Had
the South Carolina troops remained as long in the
fight as they did, the enemy might have been driven
back, a good portion of the South Carolinians
would have been captured. But Gen. Evans find
ing he was overpowered ordered retreat, which it
appears Malletts battalion did not hear, until the
bridge was fired, which made the retreat of many
Of them impossible. One fact stands out promi-
nently in this war, that while North Carolina has
lost in killed and wounded larger number of men
than most Of the States, fewer of her men have
been made prisoners by the enemy than those Of
any other State, in proportion to numbers engaged.
And what does this fellow mean by calling Col.
Potter North Carolina Yankee p Col. P. is q
Yankee officer, and nothing else. An attempt was
made by the Yankees to raise regiment of the
rabble population in those Counties occupied by
them. We are assured that they succeeded in rails
ing only two small companies in ALL out just such
a population as the buffaloes about Hilton Head
and other points in South Carolina. Col Potter
commands this "1st N. G. Regiment" And yet
this writer tries to asperse North Carolina by calling
Potter North Carolina Yankee"
This writer further says:
zone of the principal difficulties with which General
Evans has contend in this section the dslOyay Of
the people There few remaining here who true,
but they Ieayen the One does not know
who to trust and communication with Newbern is SO easy
those who by-ruads and paths that hardly
might passes when information is not conveyed 10 the
headquarters of Gen. Foster =
We have better right to know the people of
that section than this mpertiEent South Carolinian
and our sources Of information more reliable
We consider the above paragraph unblushing
falsehood, made Of the whole cloth. A more loyal,
truehear ed and devoted people to the South do not
live in the Southern Confederacy, than will be found
in the Counties of Lenoir, Jones, Wayne, and in
deed, in our entire Eastern Counties. That there
are few isolated, ignorant poverty strcken, bad
people, Who from sheer fear or the hope of gam, do
act improperly, and in some cases traitOrOusly, we
have no doubt but the above statement is shame
less libel upon the respectable rich poor people
of that section.
But need be surprised at Virginia or South
Carolina sensation presses upstart F. F. VS.. or
the vapid chvalry Of those States who charge cow
ardice and traitorCus conduct upon people, when
here at home renegade Virginlans, South Carroll
mans, Englishmen and Irishmen encouraged in
their vli6cation Of them? Is it strange that it is
! So when even native North Caronians falsely
charge treason upon their fellow.citizens who be-
fore the war were known and recognized to be their
! equals and betters Frcnzied and perverted by
their partizan fanaticsm, they condemn every man
who cannot utter their Shibboleth. Upstart men
who have been elevated to official positions in the
army much beyond their merits, ready on the
merest suspicion the whsperings Of political
mics, to show their courage and their patriotism,
not in whipping the Yankees, but in arresting IN
armed citizens who do not happen to think or speak
as they do. Verify they are fighting prOdgiously
| to maintain our liberties