The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-05-13
HEROES OF THE PAST.
Teaching Children North Caroitna's
Part in the War.

Raleigh News and Observer.
This week the children in the public |
schools in Raleigh are being taught |
the heroism of the North Carolina |
soldiers during the Confederate war. !
1t is an excellent idea, and one that
ought to be carried out in every
school, public and private. Though
the first at Bethel and the last at
Appoma ttox, the soldiers of this
State have not obtained until recent
years the honor that is due them be
cause they left it to the historians of
other States to write the story of he
struggle.
1t was not until the official figures
We're published by the War Depart
ment that the part borne by the
| North Carolina soldiers in that great
struggle was established and given
world wide circulation. Now there ls
no well informed man who does not
know that in herOism and in devo-
ton, North Carolina was to the Con-
iederacy what Pennsylvania was to
the Federal government.
Toe facts upon which North Caro-
lima g fame rests cannot be too often
published. In Raleigh schools
Superintendent Howell prepared for
the guidance of teachers a compen-
dunn of North Cardinals share in
the civil war, and the teachers we're
instructed to amplify the outline
made by the superintendent As a
succinct summary that will interest
old and young alike at this season
when preparations are making to
observe Memorial day, We append
Mr.. Howell's brief:
"North Carolina did not leave the
Union until after the Confederate
government had been organized. In
February, 1861, the State voted
: against secession by majority OF
, 10000. But in March, Mr. Lincoln
became President, and called fol-
volunteers TO subdue the Southern
States that had seeded. He asked
North Carolina for ! 500 men. AuC
8 then our State, on May 20, 1861
g decided by big vote. to cast its lo'
: with the Confederate State.
North Carolina was next to th'
last State to secede, but it was thu
first to suffer. The first man killed
: in the war Was Henry Lawson
j Wyatt, of Edgecombe county, wht
: fell in skirmish at Big Bethel, Va.
d Twenty six engagements wer
n fought in North Carolina, the mos
: notable events being: The recaptur
OF Plymouth by Gen. r F Hoke an
A Gen. M. W. Ransom. in 1864; tn
!, defeat Of the Federal fleet in Roanok
river by the ram Albermarle, unde
/ Commander Cook; the heroic defenc
! of Fort Fisher, under Lamb an
Whiting; and Johnston's last stan
u at Bentonville, in Johnston county
= Soldiers of North Carolina wen
If farthest up the slopes of Gettysbur
4 under Pettigrew, and made the las
h charge at Appomattox under Gel
W. R Cox. North Carolina furnishe
a, one fifth of the entire Confederat
n Army, from first to last. At AppC
"a mattox one-half the muskets su
as rendered were from North Carolin
u troops.
Military population of
lg N. C. in $780,. 49,. 115 &c
n No troops furnishedC.
ne s. A by N C, about 125 OO
- German loss in Franco
Prussian war...........3 l-1Oper Gel
~ Loss of Allied armies
Ok in the Crimean war..3 2-1O per Gel
OF Loss of Union army in
On the Civil war.........S 6-1Oper Gel
OF o. North Cardinals loss
%, in the Civil war......... 30 per Gel
q. THE greatest loss suffered by ar
regiment on either side in any OIL
ON battle, was that of the Goth Nor
N. Carolina at Gettysburg. commando
ID by Col Harry Burgwyn, of Petit
ne CREWS brigade, H-th's division.
~. lost 5SS men. In one company
"a men, every man and officer w
It'll hit. The light brigade, in the ce
ed brated charge of the 600 at Bala
IL lava. lost 81 per cent. of it's men. b
the 26.h North Carolina regimen
oal charging up the heights of Getty
e en burg, lost Sc per cent. of it's nui
10. bers, and nobody blundered, eith'
ny "The following list embraces t
oat ten heaviest losses in single battl
me both sides:
goth N C., at Gettysburg. $50
TO 4th N. c., at Fair Oaks, 500.
'n nt 9th ILL.,, at Shiloh, 366.
NJ. 44th Ca, at Mechanicsville, 335
at 14th Ala at Seven days, 324.
his 9Th Tenn at Stones River, 3O6
or, 121st N. Y at Salem Heights, 21
Mt 10th Penn, at Spotsylvania. u
nto 18th n j. at Spotsylvania. 272
roi 10th N G, at Gaines Mill, 272
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