The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-22

struggle of the Seven Days to Begin
waiting for Jackson, the Eagle of the
armv,t to swoop down from the mountains;
waiting for Lee to speak, whose voice in
battle was, to them from that day for
ward, as the voice Of a God and when
he told them to go forward, see how they
and their comrades twist McClellan's
army, with their storm grapple, back and
forth across the Chickahominy, striking
him blows of iron, day in and day out,
until sore and weary, as the day closed
upon the field of Gaines Mill, he sat down
and wrote to his government that he was
beaten, and that his only hope was to
escape from his fierce pursuers; and five
days thereafter, Lee rode back from Nal
vern Hill, p~raising his soldiers and regret
ting that he had not captured the Union
Army. See how they go, on the morning of
the 18th Of September 1862, double-quick
ing from the fright to the bloody left, at
Sharpsburg; sweeping proudly into line,
and staying, like a wall of granite, the tor
rent of the battle as it come rushing in over
the dead bodies Of Hoods brave Texans,
See how the foe recoils from the deadly
blast of their rifles; see how they drive him
back with yells of defiance, restoring our
lines, and standing in their ranks, through
the day and through another day, as firmly
as the solid earth beneath them. Read the
record of their daring at Charlottesville,
u III II e l.- :. H. oor1- dave
r of 1868: One hundred and thirty-one Con-
l federate regiments under fire; twenty-five of
5 of them from North Carolina; ten thousand
; two hundred and eighty one Confederates
killed and wounded; two thousand nine
hundred and forty eight of them from North
5 Carolina. See how they move their torn
t battle flags above the crest of the struggle
| at Gettysburg, as it moves along its track Of
death, up the slopes of Cemetery Hill, urg
t ing forward with the %throbbing of theiI
hearts; and when the fateful storm is over
when the crest of the battle rose highest
e there lies our comrade by the side of him
of the North. Whom the peace o
g death has made against his brother
: AS we lcok into their faces, side b.
e side, the one clad in gray, the other IL
:. blue; each aglow with the spirit hat ha
o brought them together, to the upper
! postals of immortality, can we say O
either that he has sinned? Shall we fol
e low our brothers, as they hold in checl
= the unbending will and mighty forces 0
is Grant, through the fire and smoke of tn
l. Wilderness, in the Trenches at Peters
burg, along the sullen retreat, until tn
re end came, and Lee babe them adier
d with his blessing that has followed then
.e and made them, like him, patient an
le heroic in peace as they were great
war?
le Shall we measure the glory Of our com
I'd rade by the treasure Of his blood? The
Of read this record: Fifty-two thousan
y nine hundred and ffty-four Confederate
b killed in battle; fourteen thousand fV
ID hundred and twenty-tw Of them frol
tie North Carolina; twenty one thousand nv
hundred and seventy Confed9rates die
re of wounds; five thousand one hundre
~ anu 1ltV OlC vi IAISih 1LOLh VIZ ~"HO
tn ma: ifty-nine thousand two hundred an
O. ninety-seven COnfederates died Of di
n ease; twenty-thousand six hundred ar
~ two of them from North Carolina. For
ad thousand two hundred and seventy-tlN
ed sons of North Carolina gave lives to II
OF Confederacy, more than one third OF b
military population; nineteen thousar
six hundred and seVenty-three OF II
sons were killed in battle or died
or wounds, more than seventeen per Ger
to of the military population, while the a
ey erage loss of the Confederate armies
ed ten per cent and of the Union armi
rs, five per cent. Read this record of t
S. Goth North Carolina regiment Of Pet
he CREWS Brigade, al Gettysburg, the co
IN, flict of the century. 1t carried into q
'se ton oyer eight hundred men eighty
e! them were left, and history has declare
"This loss of the Goth North Carolina,
ere Gettysburg, was the severest regimen
ne, loss during the war" in which sew
hundred and sixty four Confederate re!
ng, ments and two thousand and fO1ty-se7
ng Union regiments were engaged. Re
Of the thrilling story Of Capt. Tattlis CO
panY, on this same field of death, II
5ue the last of all its officers and eighty TIL
no out of eighty-four of its men killed a
ere wounded and of Capt. Birds Compa
'ou C, of the Eleventh North Carolina,
DIS; this same noble Brigade, tina. lost two
has it's officers and thirty-four out Of thir
eight of its men killed and wounded,
the the engagements of the first W da.
ned and these four who remained took th
it places in the historic charge Of the )
'ich July and when his flag bearer was 5
the down, 1.-The Captain brought out the
the himself"
Near the town of Winchester, in
f in ginia, they set apart a Soldiers Rest
fol- place, after peace had come; and W