The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-09-01
Total. 7lreglments. 2obatiallIon

Reserves. 2regiments, 8 battallions
Total. "a 7iregiments. ~ 20battallions
And 13 unattached companies and II
companies borne on0uf rolls serving In
regiments from other States
WHAT STATE FURNISHED MoREsoIDIERs9
.I,don't know but what my assertion
might be amended 50 ds to claim that this
IL not relatively but positively more troops
than alliy state put into services. AT tall
events, shall be glad lit brings forth
tie records Of any sister State, and viii
submit when fairly beaten. According 70
the report OF Adjutant-GencraI Cooper the
wl,ule number of lroops IN the Confederate
service was enO,0oO, of which North Caro-.
lima furnished largely more than one sixth
One-tenlh would have been her share
Her total white Population was In 1850,
go, 9i2; Of this she sent to the war more
than one man to every six souls J How
they demeaned themselves the bloody
records Of killed and wounded In all the
great battles of the war bear incontIo-
yertible testimony
DISCIPLINE oFTHE NORTH cARoLfANs
aAlmost tile only commands Ia Lees
army which were intact and serviceable
nj Appoinattox., Governur Vance claimed,
.were North Carolina 5rigades, and the
statement Is made, So FAR as we know
without contradiction, that she there sur
rendered twice as many mnskets as
80, nlher State. AT Greensboro too
Hoke's division of North Carolina troops
was In splendid condition and efficiency,
and continued one-thlrd or more Of john
sons army While speaking on this sub
lee, Governor vSnee declared that the
writers who pen biographies Of the great
and iliustrious leaders which Virginia gave
to the Conf,dnacy have Deen too anxious TO
eulogize their heroes to give due attention
10 tl.e forces which wrought their plans
into such glorious results
METERIAL AsD wAR-suPPIIEs.
The speaker having shown how nobly
North Carulina performed her duty tn the
Conrederacy in furnishing soldiers, called
the attention of the meeting to the part
she took In furnishing supplies and me-
terlal, though lac had 20 regret that he was
m4siIe ,1'furnIsh accurate figures, tlio re-
cords belng out Of his reach He explai-
ned how under the pressure Of circum>
stances the manufactures 81 North Caro-
expanded; what they furnished the Con-
fv,Ieracy aud the people Of sister States;
how tie State purchased ihes,eamship,
Lord Clyde. afterwards the "Ad-Vance'g
aud how she passed the blockade eleven
times, eacll time bringing Ia store OF me-
dicine, machinery, leather clothes; shoes,
munitions of war, &C; not only for North
carulIna, but fnr the Confederate Govern.
ment; not only for their people In addi-
tion 70 these supplies brought In from n
broad, immense supplies Of bacon beef,
tiour and corn were furnished from their
own neI,ls. "Old men aud women In
many eases guided the plough whilst
children followed with the hoe In the
gaping furrow.'
uow TuE DESTITUTE AT HOME WE'RE Pro.
yIpED FOR.
in addition TO providing fortlle soldiers
In the tield, there was still morediiiicult
task, the orator asserted, In providing for
the destitute al home--a task which the
military men Md not appreciate properly.
To meet this necessity. ganaries were 60
iasilsheuat several points, andcor dis
trlLu,ed In the most nec.ly Districts. eosn-
mIl,ees were appsinted In each coonty to
look after the needy. and commissioners
selected whose SOLE duty n waste pnvsde
saIt. The State beeasrg for rbc tsnse
grand almoncr, and u " my opsn,crs That
no part performed ln shst srsnt vsruggie
was more deserving Of praise thas that ef,
fort which North e'aroIii,s nasie 10 pro-
vide Cor the poor families of shosv .who
were lighting for her on distant battles
rlclds. These efforts went 10 the very GIT
of our success
vuy TItE ooNrEDERAcy rArLED.
Af.er paying an eloquent tribute TO the
old and young Of yDfiIf Carolina, who
furnished the slnews Of war, and speaking
Of ',he effort made In public and private
d. avert the caIamities of warand tosus.
lah, me spirits " the people, heeSpressed
iicopinion that the causc of cnr ultimate
failure brgan by neglect of those 1T home.
Our clval administrations lost the cause Of
,hesouth. Had Il been EQUAL Ia ability
aud tact 70 thai displsysa by youf military