The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-05-11
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
SOME RENINISsrENCE OF NORTH
CAKOLINA GENERALS.

! SOA r. REA \ lS''ENCES OF NORTH
, CAKOIISA GENERALS.
Our state Did Her Part in Furnishing
Officers To the COnfederacy.-J -Jngalla
t Aiding Democracy.
Especial Cor STATE CHRoNICLE.1
! HAsHINGToN. ID. O., May ;, 1sSs.- Gen.
eral Cadmus Wilcox, native of North
| Carolina, tells me some interesting remi-
nlscences of Gen. Stonewall Jackson and
| OF Others of whom your readers never tin
of hearing. Gen. Wilcox went from North
| Carolina TO Tennessee and Was appointed
! Ii cadet to " est Point from that State. His
mother was Miss Garland, the oldest sister
j Of Attorney General Gariand's farAcP and
! the family lived in or near Wayne county.
| He ~as at West Point with the lamcnteh
, Whiting, of Wilmington, with Stonewal1
Jackson, Pender, Anderson, Bragg, Dan
! iels, nc. He has Just given me a list ei
! Generals North Carolina furnished during
! he war, who graduated at West Point.
! The list OF course does not include any of
! her famous volunteer Generals such a.
! Major General NJ W. Ransom, Brieadiel
General Johnston Pctigrew, &C., whose
military regulations are not second tn
those who had the benefit of military
training" Gen. Wilcox's list is as follows
and 1t is a striking fact that our great old
/ commonwealth should have furnished SC
many West Point Generals: Gems. Rich
ard Caswell Gatlin, J. G. Martin, fheo. Fl.
+. Holmes, Bra1ton Bragg, Robt. Ransom,
| Am. Ramseur, l.. F. Baker, ". H. Ander-
sen, W. d. Pender, Julius Daniels, and
Cadmus Wilcox. This makes eleven. There
WAS twelfth whose name Gen. Wilcox
could not recall. and think it was no less
Il person that the brave Gen. D. II. Hill,
! who is by no means the least famous of
! the list. General Whiting WAS, II l am
| not mistaken, Northern man by birth
| but he married one Of the handSonest and
most attractive women in North Carolina,
Miss Walker. Of Wilmington, and not only
| made ia, liant sight for North Carolina,
but lost his life for the Confederaey. Gen.
| Whiting was in the class above Gen. 7. j.
| Jackson at West Point and was appointed
| 20 ask him some problems in mathematics
| at his entrance examination, in accordance
with a custom that then prevailed at West
| Point. Whiting found Jackson q dull,
! green, boy. aud little thought he would
| come out of the Mexican war Brevet
Major. ranking any member of his class.
! General Whiting had remarked however,
! Yhat severe student jackson was and
| after the close Of the Mexican war Whit
! ing Wilcox and other officers were in
! New York when some OF their brother Off
/ GERS from Governors Island called on
, them. Whiting asked about Major Jack
sOn who was then stationed on the Island.
| One of the officers replied: ''Iou know
| Whiting. he never had any music in his
soul at Vest Point nor in Mexico. Music,
| poetry. all such things did not seem to he
/ in the heart or mind of such rough crank,
| but he has suddenly developed desire to
| be musician. He came here recently.
| bought fiddle, several bows and plenty
of rosin. Every spare minute, night and
| day, he saws away and such sounds rs fill
| the entire barracks are beyond description.
and almost beyond endurance"
BE patient responded the genial
Whiting With a smile, If Tom Jackson in
| tends to be fiddler, he will rival Pagani-
| nj before he stops trying"
This prediction was not fulfilled but, Whit
| ings words show how great was his faith
| in Jackson's indomitable perseverance,
| There is no hint of heaven born genius in
Jackson. face. Neither the brow nor the
| eye betoken great native ability, Is in the
| case of the peerless Lee. But there is
bouadless patience and an evident capacity
of infinite labor, strongly marked on the
| face. This is the secret Of his success, and
| | find every one who Was at West Point
with him has a similar opinion.
When General Wilcox and several of bis
young brother cadets graduated just be-
| fore the Mexican War, they stopped two
| day. in Washington. Hon. Jeffeeson Davis
was = member of the House. Mr.. Davis
met the young men and invited them to
| 70 TO the White House with him to levee
that night. They went, and Gen. Wilcox
says he was profoundly impressed by Mr..
| Davis's splended powers as conversations
| alist. He says every sentence Was in the
| purest English and uttered with the grace
and feeling of a born orator. Later, when
both were iu Mexico, he was introduced
| to Capt Davis, the hero of Buena Vista,
when Davis stepped forward, grasped his
| hand and said he remembered the West
Point cadet he had taken to the White
House. A very fine portrait of Gen. Will
COX is on the panorama of the Battle of
Manassas. He is painted. life sind, in q
group con posed of Lee. Iongstrect, Will
cox and Venable, and they are watching
the ever memorable charge of the invinci-
Lle Stonewall Jackson's division.
|
The best tariff speech of the session was
made Thursday last, by Hon. Wm- l. Will
son, of West Virginia, the youngest mem
ber Of the Ways and Means Committee.
Tuesday week, Aessrs. Carlisle and Reid
will make the closing argument
The scene in the Senate on Tuesday be-
tween Ingalls, and Voorhees, was disgrace
| full Voorhees, was drunk, so he can hardly
be held strictly accountable for making a
fool of himself At bis best, he is much
over rated. But Ingalls, ought to have
| known better than to keep up his charges
against Democrats who fought in the Fed
! eral army. However it is his funeral. not
| ours. The Democratic party would not
need any campaign documents or funds if
it could hire Ingalls, to keep on talking in
this strain during the summer. Half the
Grand Army men would vote for the Dem
ocratic nominee, rather than for Z part y
that encouraged abuse of men, like Nc
Clellan and Hancock. So, let Ingalls, talk
on He is making partisan bid for the
| Presidential nomination by Haunting the
few remaining tatters and rags of the
worn-out bloody shirt in the eyes OF the
North. lie says the Southern Confedera-
cy still exists. He tries to prove it, by
showing up Mcclellan and other Northern
Democrats as traitors! He is too brainy
and cultured to be so blinded by prejudice
and after he has done all the damage t6
his party he is capable Of doing by this
sort of nonsense hope he will see thu
error of his course and act in a manner
more worthy of his natural and acquired
gifts. Common gratitude prompts tht
wish That part Of the Union, embraced
by the late Southern COnfederacy, is very
sincerely indebted to Senator Ingalls, fol
the able and effective manner in which h