The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-06
ROCK OF REV Citations.
NORTH CAROLINA At LAST GETS
DUE RECOGNITION FOR
HERoISM IN WAR.
Officially Proclaimed First.

Nelrs d Observer.
WAsHISGToS, D. c., May pa
quarter of century passed before the
people of North Carolina, modest ana
shrinking in their matches herolsm,
knew how much her sons contributed
to the glory of the Southern cause
Most of the great officers came from
other States. but it was North Carroll |
ma bravery that stood the SHOT ana
shell of the enemy, and yet, until the
mast few wears, the Tar Heels them
selves did not know how TAR they sur
passed all their sister Southern states
have been intending to examine
the official records in the War Record
office here to furnish your readers with
the facts. But while delaying Tor "a
more convenient season" to secure the
date. the New York Times, always ac-
curate ana fair (and | may add, Of late,
always enterprising) has given Its read
ers the facts in much better shape than
/ could have hoped to do. The follow
ing article, in recent issue OF the
Times will be read wherever the En-
ylish language is spoken, and it will
tell story that Will give to North Car
DINA the first place in American hlsto-
ry:
NORTH CAROLINA AND THE CIVIL WAR.
"ThoucE but little has been printed
concerning the work of the War De-
partment, vet this has been trrmen-
dous task. FOrty-nlne volumes OF near
" thousand pages each, are complet-
ed, and furnish the most accurate his
tory ever published Of a nations inter
necine war The work has been i'm
partially done. Besides the five Union
officers employed, two Confederat Gen.
officers have always been engaged in
editing the war archives of the dead
Confederacy.
THE most interesting feature of the
work is an exhaustive compilation from
official records of the casualties on both
sides in the war. Here are facts, not
opinions. 1t will be made PLAIN, be-
yond all room for controversy, in this
volume, that much of the hardest fight
ing of the war was between the army
of the Potomac and the Army of North
ern Virginia, and the figures in this
iments from the eastern States did the
hardest fighting in the Union Army
They also prove that the Confedcracy
succombed by the exhaustion OF Lee
army.
The table Of death and wounds that
are given measure the actual fighting
as nothing else can. One thing clearly
shown is the OvershadOwing importance
of the battles of Gettysburg and Chick
amauga, the greatest battles tie Con
federate and Union armies eyer fought.
The losses in these engagements prove
how much fiercer was the fighting IN
these battles than 1t was before or ever
was again between the two armies en-
gagged during the war.
'The heroic valor OF the North Caro-
lima troops eXcites the highest admira-
ton, and Pennsylvania. which lost
more in killed and wounded, in proper
ton to the number of its troops, can
we'll send greeting to North Caroline,
whose soldiers at Gettysburg did the
hardest fighting on the other side, over
the happy reunion of the present year.
"This is the book of revelations as to
both sides of the civil war On the
Confederate side North Carolina lost
more soldiers killed than any other
Southern State. The following was
the total loss in killed and mortallv
wounded of several of the Southern
States: North Carolina, $14 ,522 Nir-
ginia 1923; South Carolina. G,1S7:
Georgia, 5,553; Mississippi, 5,SO7
Louisiana, 9,714. North Carolina
heads the list in the number that
died of wounds and 2O,6O2 OF her son.
died OF disease. North Cardinals mill
t,ry population In 1861 was 1850
bat she furnished 1250OO to the Con
federate cause. The percentage of lost
killed and wounded was greater in the
Confederate armies than in the Union
armies. At Gettysburg the Goth North