The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-06

on which these purchases had been made
| abroad. the State purchased, had on hand
in trust for the holders 1900 bales OF
cotton and 100000 barrels of rosin. The
cotton was partly destroyed before the
war closed; the remainder. amounting to
several Thousand bales. was captured
after peace was declared, by certain Of
icers CT the Federal army
in addition to these supplies brought
| in from abroad, immense quantities OF
bacon, beef, flour. and corn were furnished
| from our own fields. was told
by General Joseph E. Johnston that when
his army was surrendered he had in the
depots in North Carolina, gathered in
the State, five months supplies for Co.,
600, and that for many, many months pre-
vious General Lees army had been almost
entirely fed from North Carolina.
M V Moore, Auburn Ala, reports
these engagements in North Carolina by
his regiment, the Sixth North Carolina
cavalry, not in the. list published last
month: Heath's Mills, near Kinston, 1854;
storming and capture of Fort Croatan.
near Newbern, May 1864; capture of gun
beat "Albemarle,' near Plymouth. This
regiment also had numerous engagements
Spring Gum Church, Deep Gully. and else
where on coast-line of North Carolina
during the winter and spring of 1864 65.
Captain NJ. V. Moore, of the North Car
Dina cavalry, is a native Tennesseean,
but has lived in Virginia. North Carolina,
Texas, and Alabama. He participated
in raising the first company for the Con-
federacy west of the Blue Ridge. He
jined the cavalry however. and served
much on staff duty. He served under more
than dozen Confederate generals, and
in nearly all of the States where there
were armies. He was with "Jeb' Stuart
in his famous ride around Mcclellan s
army, and wrote accounts for the Vir-
ginia Historical Society and also for Col
| McClure's Philadelphia Times. Captain
Moore reports having had a pleasant con-
versa tion with Vice President Hendricks
in Washington in 1885, just before the
death of that distinguished friend of the
South, and said Mr.. Hendricks had given
the subject of the Mecklenburg Declare
tion of independence much careful study
and that he was convinced of the entire
trustworthiness of the claims of the Car
DINA people tC the genuineness of the
event
Colonel Moore now lives at Auburn
Ala, where he is engaged in litirary
and agricultural work. His wife is the
| well-known humorous writer, Betsy
| Hamilton whose father Colonel William
| b. Mcclellan, a graduate of West Point
was an officer in the Confederate army.
! CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT CON
CORD
Mrs r. S. Harris, Secretary Ladies
Memorial Association, Concord, Cabarrus
county, n. c.:
All visitors to Concord n. c., are at
| tracted by the handsome marble shaft in
/ the court house square, standing in soil
| tary contrast to the busy life around its
base. The memory of the Confederate
soldier is thus perpetually kept in re.
membrance and his brave service pro-
/ claimed with silent eloquence The Ladie.
Memorial Association of Concord, aided b,
| Mr. Jesse Williford. an old soldier, an(
! by other patriotic citizens, inauguratet
! the monument movement in 1891. II
| April. 1892, it was placed in position, an,
on May S. 1892 it was unveiled in tn,
presence of an enthusiastic assemblag,
| from Cabarrus and the adjoining coun
ties. The shaft. built of eight pieces. rise
| sixteen and one half feet above the leye