Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-08-31
BATTLE OF MOORE's CREEK
Home of the Heroine, Wayne
County.

Our able contemporary DR..
Kingsbury, of the Wilmington
Messenger, always writes delight
fully of the CID days in North
Carolina, end we think he has
done more teaching Of State bis
tory than has any other editor c.
our great commonwealth.
In speaking of the recent cole
bra;ion of the battle of Moore's
Greek, we think, however, that
tie Doctors editorial is incom-
pleie, lnasmuch as be does not give
sufficient scope to the most noted
characters connected with the bat
tle of Moore's Greek, namely, Col.
Ezekiel Slocumo and his wife,
Mary,
Gel. Slocumb was in the army,
and lis wife, Mary, was at her
home, pheasant Green" in
Wayne county, only few miles
from this city. Soon after she
had gone to bed, on the night of
the battle Of Moore's Creek, she
dreamed that she saw her husband
covered with bis oyercoat, dead on
the battle field. Ordering the
saddle put on her horse, she rode
alone through the darkness for |
sixty miles. until she learned there |
he'd been battle, found the
troops, saw man dead on the
field with an overcoat over him
which she recognized as her hus-
bands, but on dismounting as
certained that it was not her hus-
baud who was dead under the
ccat, but the heroic Grady.
When she went on her memor-
able ride to Moore s Greek she left
at home her baby, Jesse Slocumb,
who in time became a member of
Congress, and died while servingI
his people in that capacity, and
is buried in the Congressional
O. metery at Washington,
In those days there were no rail {
roads, and his remains could not
be brought home. il
Col. Ezekiel Slocumb, one of {
the heroes of the Revolution, was
the father of jesse, who vas the $
father of the late Maj. j. G.
of this city, the father
Of cur esteemed townsmen Capt.
Thomas W. Slocumb, 7. g. slo-
,ulab and Junius Slocumb.
Col. Ezekiel Slocumb and his
wife, Mary, are buried at the old q
homestead, "fleasant areen,' not r
more than thirty steps from /
he Wilmington & Weldon railroad !
between Dudley end Mt. Olive, in I
Wayne county, in full view of the
passing trains.
Pheasant Green" was once a I
II gnifcent old place, and on one
OCCASION, a Britisn officer, Col.
Farieron, remarked to Mrs. Slo- :
,umb, CATER the war is over what ;
| grand estate this will be for one =
If cur British noblemen. Mrs. | (
slocumb Indignantly replied, 'SiE c
.eet by two, for grave, is the on Y
y part of this estate any English c
nan will ever owp.'' S
DR.. Kingsbury wi i'll note that it
vas from her home at "Pleasant
afeen," near this city, that Mary
Slocumb made her historic ride TO :
The scene OF conflict above referred !
to, and these lines are written not
for the purpose of paling d single +,
laurel on the brow OF the Grady's, Is
bet to maintain the chivalry of "a
Wayne county family, the Slo-
cumbs, who, though modest in the
extreme, have, through every gen.
GRAFTON of the name, furnished Pa
triots and Statesmen, in war and
in peace. that have done their couu-
try service and shed lustre on the
of the South. And to-
day-and with the first to 60
young Ashby Slocumb, son of
Capt. T. w. Slocumb, is bravely
holding his life in the balance un-
der arms and in daily battle in the
pestilential Philippines for the
of his country'sii ::
prowess and the honor of his coun-
try's flag. Whether right or wrong,
"His not to reason why;
His but to do and die,"
Honor the Slocumbs.