The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-18
eENERAL GRIMES.
Farther Particulars of Ills Assassina
tDOn.
A MURDER MOST F0UL--sKETCH OF THE LIFE
OF TaE DECEAsED--cAREER IN THE coz.
PEDERATE ARMY-cIyTL LIFE-PERs0xAL


RahiRn ObsefverI
Our readers will regret to learn OF the
assassination Of General Bryan Grimes at
Bear Creek, within two miles of bis home,
| in Pitt county, on Saturday night the l4th
| instant. General Grimes had been TO Wash.
ington, Beaufort county, and was returning
home In his buggy, with q little boy driving
him, and when be approached Bear Creek,
being then q couple OF miles distant fem
his residence, he was fred at from the
bushes and killed. So base an assassina-
tion and foul murder has seldom before
| happened In North Carolina, whether we
have regard to the high position OF the vic
tim or the dastardly cowardIce OF the as
sassin.
General Bryan Grimes was the son OF
Bryan Grimes, Esq who was long a resi-
dent OF Raleigh, and was about ffty-one
years Of age. He was born at Washington,
| educ3ted partly in Raleigh, and graduated
at Chapel Hill in 1S4S with the late Major
Seaton Gales and Major X. s. Tucker, Of
this city. He subsequently turned his at
teDtion To farming, and before the war be-
came one OF the successful farmers in his
section, and ranked des .rvedly high among
the agriculturists OF the State.
He entered the Confederate service at the
breaking out OF the war as major, and
passed through that terrible ordeal with dis.
tinguished honor, not only winning laurels
for himself, hut rendering sill more Illus.
trious the name and fame OF North Caro-
lima soldiery in that grand struggle for in
dependence. Ii was his divsion-he hav-
ing risen 10 the Grade OF major-generil-
that made the last charge at AppomattoX.
Although North Carolina has produced
many sons notable for their intrepid
bravery, yet none bore within them a
br: yer or truer heart than him whose loss
we are now called upon TO mourn.
The fact that without political prestige or
military training Ie attained as high post
ton in the army as that occupied by any
other officer from this State, Lieutenant
General Holmes alone excepted, Is evidence
that his daring valor, military skill, and
conscientious attention to duty compelled
recognition from his superiors in command.
Present IN almost every battle fought by
Lees army in Virginia, Maryland, and
PENNSYLVANIA, he always led his command,
and bis exposure OF his person, almost 10
recklessness, made il wonder to his men
escaped with his life.
Civil station and the bonors and emolu-
ments OF civil office he did not seek. BE,
however, served in the Convention of 1861,
and, having advocated separation in that
body, he early abandoned his place and
sought to accomplish on the field OF battle
what he had declared for in the legislative
halls.
Prominent among the characteristics OF
General Grimes was Il supreme devotion 10
truth, and an utter abborrence OF any de-
Walton in that regard. Firm in his Opin-
ions, honest in their expression, and brave
TO fault, he could never view With COM
placency any wandering from the path OF
reclitude or any dishonest gloss given to
sentiments on the score Of eXpediency.
Among his friends he was courteous.
kind, and considerate. and those who knew
bim best loved him the most.
After the war General Grimes returned
to his farm, in Pitt county, and devoted
himself without intermis>ion to its cutiya-
ton TO the day OF his death. We are in
formed that bis industry and skill was re-
warded with success, and we trust he left
an ample support for bis family.
He was twice married. His first wife,
Miss Bette Davis, OF Warren, died early,
leaving only one child, now Mrs. Samuel
+. Mordecai. Of this city. His second wife,
who was Miss Charlotte Bryan. daughter
OF the late John Ii. Bryan, OF Raleigh. sur
vIves him. By her he had several children.
What an awful shock, what an inestima-
BILE loss, such death of such husband
and father must be TO his wife and chill
dren.