The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-30

a military district and that Colonel G.
w. Avery, of the Thirty-third North
Carolina regiment, or Colonel Stephen
Lee, of the Sixteenth North Carolina
be made brigadier general and assign
ed to hat command. He considered
Avery's appointment the most desira-
bic, as he was younger, more active
and better adapted to the Of
militia and the people generally" The
! governor said the occupation of east
/ Tennessee by the enemy made this
course necessary; coupled with the
great numbers Of tories and deserters,
which endangered all western North
Carolina and laid it and it's supplies
| open to the enemy. He added: But
It is inhabited by quite a warlike mill
| tia, who are calling on me for arms
! and to organize them for the fight"
Vance asked for a battery and a few
regular troops as an aid to the brigade
thus to be formed.
September 9th General Lee wrote as
follows with regard to Governor
Vance's letter on the causes of dissat-
isfaction among the North Carolina
troops in the army of Northern Vir-
ginia: Il regret exceedingly the jeal-
ousies, heart-burnings and other evil
consequences resulting from the crude
lis VI newspaper COITc-
s%pondents, who ave necessarily a very
limited acquaintance with the facts
about which they write and who mag
Nifty the deeds of troops from their own
state at the expense of others. But I
can see no remedy for this. Men seem
to prefer sowing discord to intoxicating
harmony. In the reports of the officials
justice is done to the brave soldiers of
North Carolina, whose heroism and de-
yrnfJnn nyvn iI1,~4~o+4l
their state on every battle in which
the army of Northern Virginia has
been engaged. With regard to a cor
for the press from North
Carolina the way is open as to other
states. / believe it would be much
better to have no correspondents Of
the press with the army. In the an
pointment of officers 1 do not think
there is any ground for complaint. The
attempt has been made as far as pos
sible to have all the regiments from
the same state brigaded together un-
der officers from their own state, or
Old army officers. In a mixed brigade
Of Virginia and North Carolina regi-
ments l some time ago., on representa-
lions from Governor Vance, removed
a Virginia officer and put in his place
an old army officer from Maryland.
Shortly after the battle of Chancel-
louisville two brigadiers from North
Carolina were promoted major generals
IN this army, their former positions
being filled at once by promotions from
that state. OF these the noble Fender.
M casualties of battle, alas, deprived
us, and the other, Genera Ransom, has
been called to take charge of an i'm
portant military department., succeed
ing another distinguished North Caro-
l1nlan, Genera Hill, of this army, pro-
noted and sent to the department of
the west. Another, the lamented Pet
tlgreW, whose brigade under his skill
full leadership emulated the deeds of
veterans in the battles of Gettysburg.
fell on the banks of the Potomac. He
mas peen succeeded by the promotion
of an officer from the same state. Cen
eral 1verson, Of Georgia, has been
transferred from the North Carolina
brigade which he mmande to a
Louisiana brigade and his place filled
by the promotion of a North Carroll
man. l will with pleasure aid Gov
ernor Vance in removing any reasona-
bic cause of complaint on the part of
men VINO nave fought so CALAMITY and
done so much, and I hope he will do
all in his power to cultivate a spirit of |
harmony and to bring to punishment |
the disaffected who use these causes |
OF discomfort to further their trouble |
Designs"
september "a the secretary of war was |
urged to establish telegraphic commu- |
between Raleigh and Fayette-
Vlile. he said he was authorized to con-
struct the line, but did not have the
He said: "No interior place
IN this state is Of more importance on
account OF the armory, the eight cotton
and the coal, of which it is the
main depot. 1t is fifty miles from here
and by the telegraph large bodies of
troops could be thrown there for its
defence at any moment"
September % General Whiting wrote
In consequence Of the increasing
Importance of Wilmington the war de-
had made 1.-The defence of
Wilmington and the district of the
cape Fear a separate command; as
signed to him, and that Major General
Heorge E. Pickett, with headquarters
1t petersburg, was assigned to the
Of the remainder Of North
Two men. Edwards and Bailey, were
with resisting, with arms.
state authority, and were before Chief
Justice Pearson on habeas corpus. They
we're charged with completely in the
AiALS u TWO OF the militia. Vance
against the Chief Justice hear
nS this case. Pearson wrote him a
letter. Vance aid he was pa
lent, never wanted to encroach on the
.'rerogatlve of the supreme court. etc.
nd added: II feel that l might with
'ut vanity, safely point you to my UNI
outh SELF as a model of a patient Off
FIRST it is declared incompetent
or me to use my militia to arrest de-
eiters ana 10 execute the laws Of con-
'ress. Next. when the militia have
cen absorbed by CONSUMPTION and the
*Eemption bill, the military given me
n place of the militia is decided out
I my lands by the same process. and
astly the chief justice of the state goes
outside Of the case to pronounce a
orlon Of my order against law, which ,
not called in question by the case. j
have been patient under it all and :
nan ubni to it quietly, without even :
y implication impeaching the motives :
the udG rendering the daciS;o, ,