The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-13
Getting There With Both Feet


looking TO the future full of hope and
promise that the New South will rise
| phGnix like from her ashes, and growth,
power and prosperity will once more
adoro our beautiful southland.
Is our home, that home for whose in
dependence We fought so bravely and
suffered so much, whether wisely or
unwisely, l leave to posterity for de-
cision. But the New South is our home
in the restored Union, and it is our SOL
emn duty TO labor for its advancement
and consecrate our energies to develop
the wonderful resources of our fair land
My comrades, was one of you from this
county, member of Co., B. of 1S, COM
manded by Capt. r. F. Webb, 9th n. c..
regiment. and claim a part of the glory
that belongs to that regiment We still
venerate the memory of the good and
gallant men who helped to scrawl the
military of this state in the heavens that
the world might read it. We recall to-
day with just and laudable state pride,
the names of Charles F. Fisher, w. D.
Pender, Robert F. Webb, Isaac E. Avery
and other heroes who shed imperishable
lustre on the annals of war. (And let me
say to my old comrades, North Carolina
has done nothing to commemorate these
brave men. The noble women, who were
first at the bri lal and first at the tomb,
have undertrken this work and | be-
lieve it will be carried to success. God
bless them in their laudable undertaking.
Let US hold up their hands as far as we
are able)
Far be it from me to claim that the 9th
North Carolina regiment was better than
any other from our state. 1t only helped
to fill to the full the measure of North
Carolina's fame. Participating in nearly
all the battles in which the regiment
took part, know what it is to have been
a soldier. | was twice wounded-first at
Fredericksburg, May 4, 1868, and the sec
ond time at Malvern Hill, by a strapnell
from the gunboats in James river. Let
me give you an instance which | saw
there, which will give you some idea OF
the terrific fire to which we were sub
iected at Malvern Hill. A soldier by the
name of Pope, from Co. l, was lying
down and was struck by shell from the
gunboats, and fragments of his body
were hung upon a tree near by. With
these small exceptions there was a com
plete annihilation of that gallant soldier
{ The generation of to day hardly believes
how terrible and how deadly was the
battle we waged for four long years
, Little by little, however, the facts come
out, and after awhile We hope the true
f story will come. Besides my experience
in the camp, in battle, and on the march
, | was captured at the high bridge neal
Farmville, Va, on General Lees last re.
treat to Appomattox. l was the senior
officer in the regiment at the time. We
were entirely surrounded by the fedorals
and captured. l have always been of the
opinion that the idea was to sacrifice the
! regiment TO save, in a measure, the bal
ance of the army-a terrible necessity
When carried TO the rear we were kept
within range of our own artillery, and
exposed 10 the fire of our own friends
1t was then | first saw and knew that
Lees army had ceased TO be an army
and that the confederacy was forever
gone Ny feelings can be imagined, but
not described was carried 10 the old
capital prison, where 500 confederate
officers were locked up. l was in that
prison the night that President Lincoln
was assassinated-a most unfortunate
event for the people of the South. We
knew nothing of the occurrence until
the next morning, but We were in very
great danger from the mob. Next morn
ing, when we left the prison for San
dusky, Ohio, the guards that escorted vi
10 the train were doubled, 10 protect d:
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