The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-02

ernor Vance wrote Judge Osborne at
| Charlotte to issue bench warrants
against distillers in Lincoln and other
counties.
February 2Sth the governor wrote the
| secretary of war of the killing by Lieu
| tenant Colonel Keith of the Sixty
| fourth North Carolina of the Madison
prisoners, and said: "A degree of
cruelty and barbarity on his part was
displayed, shocking and outrageous in
the extreme. / desire you to have pro-
ceedings instituted at once against this
| officer, who if the half be told is a dis
grace to the service and to North Car
DINA.
Solicitor Merrimon sent in another
statement as to the killing, saying:
Probably eight of the thirteen were not
in the company which robbed Marshall.
They were all buried in a trench. 1
SEM their names. One named Shelton
was IA, another of the same name II,
and yet another, David Shelton, My
Is, while Joseph Cleandon was Is or 16.
I can't learn the names of the soldiers
who shot them, some of them Shrank
from the brutal transaction at first, but
were compelled to act. There was no
trial or any hearing whatever"
The North Carolina railway officials
notified the governor, February IS, 1853,
Of the purchase of two locomotives
from the confederate government n
the rent of one from the Manassas Gap
railway.
s.
March End the governor wrote Chief
Justice Pearson: You are aware that
the late legislature by a joint resolution
declared the office of adjutant general
vacant, by reason of the incumbent
having accepted the incompatible office
under the confederate states, and that
by a subsequent act the appointment
was conferred on the governor. Gen
eral James G.. Martin, the present in
cumbent, having declared his intention
of testing the legality Of the action of
the Legislature by an appeal TO the
court. I am placed in a position rather
embarrassing. To avoid the somewhat
unpleasant spectacle of a law suit for
possession of an office confidential in
it's relations to myself, I have c%Onclud-
ed, with the consent of General Mar
tin, to make a case and ask the opinion
of the supreme court Immediately
thereon"
General Whiting wrote Governor
Vance, March End, hat if negroes were
l HUI SCIl llil ~ Noih oH ~ 49,
and the other forts, he would have to
impress them. Governor Vance sent
him 500, from the interior of the state.
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Writing to General Longstreet, who
commanded the department of North
| Carolina, asking him to retain General
Pryor as commander on the Black Wa
| ter, Governor Vance said: Permit me,
general, to express the satisfaction Of
the people of North Carolina, exhibited
| everywhere. on seeing the
men that they were to be defended by
the %gallantry and skill of General
LOngstreet."
n. W. Woodfn was the states agent
at the salt works al Saltville, Va. He
| had a hard time getting supplies from
this state or shipping salt to it and
| Governor Vance wrote him that to
remedy this he proposed to established
a time of wagons to haul salt from
S%altsville to Morganton.
March 5th Vance wrote Secretar. of
War Seldom a short letter about Colo
| mel Peter Mallett, late commanding the
camp of Instruction near Raleigh, and
| saying: His conduct while in con-
mand gave general satisfaction. He
organized a camp guard Of 600 men,
who were duly differed by his assist
ants and drill masters n vigorously
| disciplined. Ordered suddenly into
the severe conflict of Kinston, their
| conduct was UGH as to elicit the praise
of veteran troops and the whole
try. Colonel Mallett, their gallant
leader, was severely wounded. On
hobbling back to Raleigh he finds him.
| self superseded by Colonel August and
an order issued directing his command
to be disbanded and placed in various
| ~ ~; ,antc &c annSoyinfS What iS m
become of him? 1t is a great hardship
for these brave men after living
fought together in the field and been
associated together eight or ten months
to be now scattered among strange reg
iments, their officers conscripted and
their efficient and gallant commander
out of the service. Though I am gen
orally indisposed to form new regi-
ments, 1 am constrained to ask you to
retain Colonel Mallett in command of
the camp as heretofore, whence he
could be early sent into the field with
his entire command. 1t is one of the
finest bodies of men in the southern
confederacy."
The secretary of the navy asked for
7O7 tons of railway iron at Laurinburg.
saying the Wilmington, Charlotte and
| RutherfOrdtOn railroad was to be built
no further during the war, the iron to
be used in plating iron-clad vessels.
Governor Vance said he could have it.
to be replaced six months after the
war ended.
Samuel F. Phillips wrote the govern
or that the distillation of whiskey was
become so great a consumer of corn
h militia ought to be used to destroy
the distilleries.
In a letter to General Bragg, Vance
asked that 1000 troops from his state
which were all from the mountain re-
gion and which were in East Tennes-
see, guarding mountain passes, and
bridges and keeping the population in
check, be sent further from home as
they were subject to but little discip-
line n their nearness to their homes
caused constant assertions; in some
cases almost complete disorganizatien.