The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-11
THE WINCHESTER DEAD
TARHEELS LIE THERE TO THE NUMBER
OF 440.
Correspondence With Mr., Rouss Touching the
Shaft to be Be Raised With Some Re
marks by Dr.. Aviritt.
Raleigh, n. c., Aug. 2, 1897.

Raleigh n. c., Aug. 2, 1897.
Mr.. Charles Broadway ROuss, 549-553
Broadway, New York,
Dear Friend-For we cannot address
you other than as the friend of the
South. The Governor of North Carolina
has kindly sent us your letter in which
you kindly offer us $3.50 for the Central
monument i'll Stonewall cemetery when
we shall have raised like sum. We beg
to thank you for this proffered benefac-
ton Presently when our crops come in
land money shall have become more plen-
Ity we shall start in to do our part.
Meantime we should be only too glad to
receive from you any suggestion as to
the design of this Central shaft, such as
will to your mind symbolic in no invidi-
GUS way, that out Of voting population
lof $4,000 men North Carolina placed in
the field 125,O00 troops to drive the in
vader from the soil Of Virginia and that
on many, if not all, the fields Of battle
lenriched and glorifed by the blood of the
sons of the South, our dear old State
showed her love for liberty by marked
lpre eminence in the number Of her dead.
On the 10th of September next we hope to
turn over to the tender guardianship Of
| the noble women Of Virginia the 44S
graves OF our silent sleepers at the north
Iern gate Of the Confederacy in StOnewall
Cemetery, Winchester, Va. Will you not
honor us by accepting our hearty invita-
ton to be present and allow your North
Carolina admirers an opportunity to
make the acquaintance of one who has
/ 4 IN OvC
among the people of the South? We
should be only too glad to know that
your eyesight has been restored to you
that once more you might look out upon
the pleasing landscape of the lovely
Shenandoah valley on that day so dear
TO every North CarOlinian.
Hoping soon to hear from you, and
with grateful greetings from every true
daughter of our State, we are
Yours very truly,
MRS. ARMSTEAD JONES,
MRS. JOHN w. HINSDALE,
MRS. GARLAND JONES,
Committee OF North Carolina Central
Monument Association.
Mrs. Armistead Jones, Mrs. John W.
Hinsdale, Mrs. Garland Jones, Raleigh,
N. G. Committee:
Ladies: Replying to your courte-
Que letter of the End instant
I will say, that the $3.50 Oh
fered by me toward the erection of the
monument for the heroic dead of North
Carolina is ready whenever you tell me
that similar sum has been raised by
your own people. 1t is really a matter
OF Indifference to me when this amount
Sc, 4 7 10 ~,
that you may present an incentive to
your own people to contribute. AS to
the style of the shaft, I have no sugges-
ton to make, this can be best determin-
ed by yourselves and the other good wo-
men who have this matter in charge.
Thanking you for your invitation to be
present on the 18th of September next
at Winchester. l will say that have al
ready accepted an invitation to be pre-
sent upon the occasion and it will afford
me pleasure to meet you and all friends
from that grand old State which has
been noble and heroic in every period of
its history.
CHARLES BROADWAY ROUSS.
Per A. J. SMITH.
The above correspondence clearly in
dicates that the 18th of September, the
approaching North Carolina day at Stone
wall cemetery, Winchester, Va, will be
largely attended by Marylanders and Vir-
ginians as we'll as by West Virginians.
Your kindness in publishing my recent
letter emboldens me in taxing you fur
Their to say one single word in regard
to the high obligations of North Caro-
linans to be present on this occasion.
&c 1arfa oil no
de corps of the Army OF North Virginia
among its survivors in North Carolina
will fetch out from mountain to sea-
board all who can possibly attend. We
hope it may not be that a thin attend
ance OF the living will throw us back
upon the fact OF our large number of
dead on the various battlefelds of Vir-
ginia to palliate in any degree the non
attendance of our own people. The peO-
pie throughout the State will be glad to
know that the high courtesy of the sea-
board Airline Railroad in carrying the
24S head stones from Raleigh to Win
chester free of charge warrants the la
dies of the memorial association, and
others interested in hoping that there
will a generous rivalry between the
Southern Railway and Seaboard Airline
as to which can do the most in swelling
the attendance by the offering of low
special rates with a liberal time limit
thereon. There is but one regret in con-
nectiOn with this occasion and that is
that on the first celebration OF any red
letter day in the Confederate calendar
outside OF North Carolina borders-we
shall be unaccompanied by North Caro-
lina's great tribune, the late Senator
Vance, whose deep interest on an occa-
sion like this would have shone out in
the love he bore the commonwealth so
tenderly.
But when we have finished this