The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-11-21

vi >OTtn NdrOIlna lrOOpS-A HlSt0.
rian for Each Regiment Save One
The Press Thanked for Publishing
the Sketches-Judge Clark Makes
His Report.
The North Carolina Veterans Asso-
citation met during the State Fair re-
Gently held in Raleigh, and Judge
Walter Clark read the following report
to the association as to the North Caro-
lima regimeAtal histories:
Mr.. Pyesideaf and Comyades of the
V<terans' association:
At the meeting of the association
year ago a resolution was passed ap-
pointing me committee of one to Sc
cure one soldier from each regiment
and battalion to write a brief history
of his command with view to publ
cation of the complete series by the
State in one or more volumes. My en-
gagements were such that under any
other circumstances l should have de-
clined, but l felt that no soldier should
refuse any aid requested ofhim towards
paying proper tribute to the fame of
the gallant men who SO long have filled
soldiers graves.
The task proved more difficult than
any one could have imagined. The
lapse of thirty years since the close OF
the war has made wider gaps in our
ranks than the musketry and grape
shot OF the battlefield. Competent
men in many commands were hard to
find, and among these many were diff
fdent of their capacity and some few
were too engrossed with the business
and needs of the present to he willing
to assume the duty requested of them
by their comrades. l have written
with my own hand considerably over
500 letters in an effort to execute the
trust con6ded to me by you. l have
succeeded in procuring historian for
each regiment and department and
for several OF the battalions, excepting
the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth
Regiments, which being senior reserves,
the youngest living member would now
be over 80 years of age. Fortunately
sketch of the Seventy-third, written
many years ago, has been found, which
can be used.
The object in procuring the sketch
of each command to be written by one
who had served therein was to have
an authentic record from eye-witnesses
of a part at least of the events recorded,
for few soldiers served the entire four
years in any command without absence
from wounds, furlough or other cause.
TO add to the correctness OF these
sketches, therefore, the idea was con-
ceived of having each sketch published
in the newspaper circulating most
largely in the section where that COM
mand was principally raised, with
request that the survivors might send
in suggestions, corrections and amend
ments to the regimental historian, who
might make all needed changes before
the sketches were finally issued in book
form.
The press of North Carolina, with
the public spirit and patriotism which
has always especially marked the press
of this State, readily responded to this
call upon their columns for which this
association owes them grateful thanks.
Each paper has cheerfully published
every sketch sent to it but it has so
happened that up to this time the
heaviest call has been upon the col
umns of the Charlotte O6se,ver-due
to the fact that the extensive circulation
OF that paper is in the great white belt
of North Carolina, the piedmont coun-
try Of our State, which furnished so
large per cent OF OUT troops, the east
ern section having large slave pop
ulation and beyond the Blue Ridge
being at that time relatively thinly
populated. While all sections did
their full duty, the piedmont country
had the largest per cent of materials for
soldiers.
The following is list Of the sketches
so far received with names OF historians
and papers in which published: First
Regiment, Col. H. A. Brown NezOs
and Observer; Third Regiment, Col.
W. L. DeRosset, Wilmington Messen-
ger; Fifth Regiment, Maj. James c.
Mac Rae, not yet published; Sixth Reg
iment, Capt. Neill w. Ray, in pam
phlet; Seventh Regiment. Maj. J. A.
Harris, Charlotte Observer; Ninth
Regiment, First Cavalry, Gen. Rufus
Barringer, Charlotte O6seyOer;; Elev'
enth Regiment, Col. w. ]. Martin,
Charlotte Observer; Sixteenth Reg
iment, Lieut.. B. H. Cathey, Charlotte
Obseyger; Seventeenth Regiment
Lieut.. Wilson G.. Lamb, News ana
Observer; Eighteenth, Lieut.. Thos. II
Sutton, Fayetteville Observer; Twen'
tieth, Gen. Thos. F. Toon, Wilmington
Star; Twenty-second, Maj. Graham
Dawes, Charlotte Observer; Twenty
third, Lieut.. H. c. Wall, Rockingham
Rocket; Twenty-sixth, Asst. Surgeon
Geo. c. Underwood, Charlotte Obser'
ger; Twenty seventh, Capt. Jas. A
Graham, Lan1 We Lore; Twenty
eighth, Gen. J. II. Lane, Charlotte
: O6seyve,; Thirtieth, Col. F. NJ. Par
: ker, Wilmington Messenger; Thirty
: fourth, Capt. T. D. Lattimore, Char
lotte Observer; Thirty-Six,h (Secone
: Artillery Col. VIM. Lamb, Whining
: ton Messenger; Ihirty-eighth, Lieu,
! Col. Geo. w. Flowers, Charlotte OF
seyrey; Fortieth, Lieut.. I. c. Davis
Ntws and Obse,rer: Forty-hrst { (rhlr'
Cavalry, Sergt, J. B. Hill, not ye
, published; Forty-third, Col. Thos. $
, Kenan, in pamphlet; Forty sixth, Lieut.
t ]. NJ. Waddill, Wilmington Messenge'