The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-08
NORTH CAROLINA TROOPSI
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his regiment the Sixth North Carolina
cavalry. not in the list published last
month: Heath's Mills, near Kinston. 1864:
storming and capture of Fort Croatan.
near Newborn, May, 1864: capture OF gun
| boat .Albemarle.' near Plymouth. This
regiment also had numerous engagements
in the roanoke region, Fosters Mills.
| Spring Gum Church, Deep Gully, and else
where on coast-1ine of North Carolina
| during the winter and spring of 1S64-65.
| Captain NJ. V. Moore. of the North Car
| Dina cavalry, is a native Tennesseean.
| bur has lived in Virginia, North Carolina.
7! Texas, and Alabama. He participated
| in raising the first company for the Con-
| federacy west of the Blue Ridge. He
lined the cavalry" however. and served
| much on staff duty. He served under more
than a dozen Confederate generals, and
in nearly all of the States where there
| were armies. He was Will 'Jeb' Stuart
| in his famous ride around McClellan's
! army, and wrote accounts for the Viz
GINA Historical Society and also for Col.
McClure's Philadelphia Times. Captain
Moore reports having had a pleasant con-
versation with e-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 Declara-
| ton Of independence much careful study,
| and that he was convinced of the entire
trustworthiness of the claims of the Car
Dina people to the gennineness of the
event.
Colonel Moore now lives at Auburn.
| Ala, where he is engaged in library
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 Ladies
| Memorial Association of Concord, aided by
| Mr.. Jesse WillifGrd, an old soldier, and
by other patriotic citizens, inaugurated
the monument movement in 1891. In
| April, 1892, it was placed in position, and
on May ;, 1892 it was unveiled in the
presence Of an enthusiastic assemblage
from Cabarrus and the adjoining coun-
ties. The shaft, built of eight pieces, rises
sixteen and one-half feet above the level
[ of the ground. 1t weighs twenty-five
thousand pounds, and cost 5000.
The inscription is as follows:
1S61-1S65.
In Memoriam.
This Monument is Erected to
the Memory of the Confederate Dead
of Cabarrus County, N. c.. ~
| With granite and marble and branch gof
the cypress
The emblem of peace shall thy SAUNDERS
enshrine,
Then take this memento: It's all we can
offer,
o graves of our comrades, this tribute
is thine.
Crowds of people attended the unveil-
ing, eager to see the monument and
join in honOring the memory Of their
%neighbOrs, friends, and relatives who are
of the Confederate dead. Major W. NJ.
| Robbins, the speaker of the day, was
| escorted to the square by a procession OF
citizens and veterans. led by the Concord
Black Boys Drum Corps. In the process
sion the thirteen Confederate States were
represented by thirteen little girls cos
tuned in Confederate colors. The portico
of the court house was used for a plat
form. A choir led in singing the national
hymn, "America.' and DR.. C.M Payne
| rnado tho nooninp nroynr Major RnIchino
was introduced by Rev. H.. w. Bays. The
monument was unveiled by four little
girls, Emily Gibson, Bessie Campbell,
Clara Harris, and Lizzie Willeford. At the
close of the fine address the enthusiasm
Of the vast crowd rang out in the stirring
chorus of the "Old North State"
In a tribute to the South Senator Ran
som said:
You remember when the Northern peo-
pie were all praying for General Grant to
exchange prisoners-"for Gods sake ex-
change them they said. Lincoln wrote
Grant and asked him to do so, and Grant
replied: q can not exchange prisoners
with the South. If l let them have their
prisoners back, they will fight on for
ever. The only way to stop the war is
to catch and keep them confined" That's
the undisputed estimate of your valor and
courage. You did it, my brother country
men, may God bless you, When the sun
was setting on Grant forever and when
his light was going out he declared his
admiration for the Southern people, and
recorded it in words that will live for
ever.
THE NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN SOL
DER.
The following account of the woman who
enlisted and served with her husband
in the command of Colonel Z. B. Vance is
taken from q letter of d. T. Carraway.
of Newbern, n. c., to the Journal, of that
town. The circumstances were patriotic
as we'll as romantic:
Volunteering was rife throughout the
State, and the mountains were ablaze
with enthusiasm. A couple, not long mar
ried, lived by themselves in some noun
tain cove near Grandfather Mountain.
The husband went to town one day, and
found that everybody was going off to
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