The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-16
NOW IN HANDS PRINTER
The Work Will Comprise Two Hand
some Volumes.
IT. IS EDITED BY JUDGE WALTER CLARK
About Three Hundred Illustrations, All From
Pictures Made During the War. Four
Interesting Full Page Illus
trations.

The idea of printing histories of the
regiments from North Carolina who
served in the great war of 1S61-'65. orig
mated in the Veterans Association OF
1894 when Judge Walter Clark was re-
quested to secure one member of each
and to edit the work After five years
labor, a sketch of nearly every regiment
has been procured and the Legislature OF
1899 authorized the printing OF the work.
The editor and the regimental historians
give their labor free of cost and the state
furnishes printing, paper and binding.
The work of printing has been begun.
by State Printer +. NJ. Uzzell. Excellent
paper and type have been selected and the
result will be two handsomely illustrated
volumes. The illustrations are also Turn
tished at their own cost by the historians
or the relatives of those whose engraVings
appear.
The only full page engravings are those
of Governor Vance, 1862 90, when IS
the frontspiece TO volume l. Randall s
three colonelS" which is the frontlSplece
to the sketch of the historic 10Th regi-
ment, full page illustration of steamer
Advance furnished by Captain James
Mayhem for his account of the work of
that wonderful steamer in furnishing
North Cardinals troops, and an engraV-
ing of Fort Fisher sent by Colonel VIM
Lamb. its gallant defender!
The other illustrations. perhaps three
hundred in number are grouped four to
seven to the page, accompanying the
sketch Of the regiments to which they
IT. Of
will be Lieutenant General d. II. Hill and
the six major generals from North Caro-
lima. The twenty-five brigadier generals
have also been secured and will appear
In groups of five to the page, scattered
through the work, and will also appear
with their regimental groups when they
served as colonies. Lieutenant General
Holmes will be added to the frontispiece
of volume H. il his photo can be secured.
Confederate soldiers and their friends
who know of any incidents in the history
of their respective regiments which
should be preserved, or any photographs
which should be engraved. should at once
communicate with the historian OF their
regiment before it is too late. No en-
craving is admitted unless it is made
from a photograph taken in 1851 % or
soon after the war. Even then, If not III
uniform. it is redrawn by engraver and
uniform of proper rank placed thereon
The object is to present by pen and en-
craving the Confederate soldier from
North Carolina faithfully, both what he
did and how he looked.
The State owns the work, 9nd all the
COPIES not donated by the State > co..
leges and schools will be sold and The
money put into the State Treasury
There should be a profit in it, for the
Legislature did not give themselves tas is
usuaD a copy each, nor do the historians
or the editor in chief of the work receive
a single copy under the act.
The work is entirely North Carolina
work. pre-eminently 50. The deeds re-
lated were done by North Carolinians
they are related by participants therein.
and their work is edited also by one Of
their number the work is printed and
hound in the State Altogether it is in
it's entirety "of, for and by North Caro-
linians."