The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ADLAI &. STEVENSON.
TIL NUMBER OF TROOPS FUR
NISHED BY NORTH CAROLINA

1t has been u contention for thirty
years that North Carolina furnished
more soldiers than any southern state,
IND many more in proportion 10 popu-
lation. A.writer in the Nashville Con-
federate Veteran some months ago put
the total for North Carolina, as We re-
canlt for We have rot a copy at hand,
at a little over 100, 600 soldiers. Captain
W. r. Bond, a careful investigator.
thinks when all are included. a the
number will not fall much. if any be-
low 10, 200, or perhaps it is los, 900. for
we are without his statement as We
write. We AVE usually for the last
quarter Of a century placed the num-
Der at 126, 600. Governor Vance in a
speech in Virginia, we think it was,
put the number at 1851 600. We are 10th
to give up the advanced figures. al
though even at 100, 900 it would lead all
the states according to population. In
1860, in the contest between Ellis and
John Pool, there were 112, $50 votes poll
ed, the largest record. If the state sent
more than 1855 soldiers to the bat
LICE ILICIE 0IlC saw AA4OAS Az AANA SAS
had voters.
On the 18th of November, 1864, Cen
eral r. C. Gatlin, adjutant general of
the state, made an official report to
Governor u. B. Vance. The precise
figures are at hand. We must con-
dense.
Total number of troops in the
state service for the .10S,0 32
Number of junior reserves....... 4,217
Number of senior reserves..,... 1855
In addition there are thirteen unat-
tached companies. Then there are one
company from North Carolina in the
Tenth Virginia cavalry, Eve in the
Seventh Confederate cavalry, four il
the Sixty-second Georgia, and one in
the S~ixty-frst Virginia infantry. The
total was 3,1O3. Then General Gatlin
reports of home guards and militia
officers in the state service-total 1852.
These were in the service doing mill
gary duty. So we have:
Total number as above. los, OS2
- Total Junior n senior reserves. S,SOS
Total troops serving in regiments
rom other states .............. SUE
Total home guards and militia. 1862
So IN all as Governor Vance
stated there Wers ..lZo'Vs
All served in the great war and all
were North Carolinians. OF it's soldiers
over Il, 900 were killed. died of wounds
or of disease. See Records of the
War published by the United States
government. They tell the tale. North
Carolina, we suppose, lost more men
than some states furnished n soldiers.
The C~onfederacy had los. 900 men from
one-sixth of the total of C~onfederates
according to the estimates of Adjutant
General Cooper of the Confed crate
army. The Roster published by the
state gives over 130, 900 names, but this
occurs because of inaccuracies in
transfers. Men in the infantry or
some other arm of the service were
transferred and carelessly left both
names standing. The Roster ought to
lished, if not before.
1t is we'll known that North Carolina
clothed her troops better than those OF
other states. Not only so. but she some
times helped to clothe the soldiers from
other states. Not only so, but she some
brave North Carolinians were among
h first to engage the enemy, as they
were among the last in the closing
scenes of the bloody drama. a: Apo
matox North Carolina sure IdereC
twice as many muskets as did any
other state, n it would be true tc
say, we doubt not, more than half o.
those tina did surrender. So at Green's
boro. more of her soldiers were paroll'
- than from any other state. During
the last year of the tremendous war
owing to the wise, patriotic, energetic
administration of Governor Vance
North Carolina was actually able t.
supply the Confederate government
with large quantities Of clothing. There
was less desertion than from any othel
state, and a far less number of bomb
proof favorites. Virginia absorbed ia
more thar her share of the higher off
GERS as can be shown. North CAROLYN;
had some soldiers OF great merit. Ien
eral Fender was ~eulogized higher il
the official report of General Lee, tina,
was ever bestowed upon any soldie
with the one exception of Genera
"StonewalI' Jackson" General Peti
grew had so greatly impressed that lat
very eminent Commodore M. F. Maur!
of Virginia, that he said that in cas-
of General Lees death by the %casualtie
q war or by disease, Of all men Ger
eral Pettigrew was the best qualihe
to succeed the great commander. w
name these because neither ever 81
their dues. General Lee said that"Gei
eral Pender should have been n