The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
A PROPHECY BY
MAJ, /. v. CONNOR
ForesaW the Civil War and
Its Results.
GENERAL JOSEPH GRAHAM
GALLANT DEEDS OF AN ADOPT
ED NORTH CAROLINIAN.
THEIR HISTORY SHOULD BE WRITTEN
Mr.. Sheriff. Suggests That Judge Schenck,
Admirably Qualified For the Work,
Write the Lives of H. W Connor
and William Larder

and William larder
To the Editor: Major w. 4. Gra-
ham calls attention to an error i'll my
statement in speaking of Major Henry
w. COnnor as major, and aid-de-camp
to Major General Joseph Graham. l
noticed the eicor at th" time It was
published and would have called atIen-
tion to it in the next issue Of the News
and Observer. but presumed rs Connor
was put major aud ''aid-,le-camp' that.
it would be understood that ii was to
Il general, and not a major.
Either | or the printer pft of the
word General it should have read
Major General Joseph Graham" here
was another error in that coamImiCa-
ton. Samuel lan,ier' was put for
William Lander Rev Samuel Lander is
younger brother Of William Lander,
and was for years President of naven-
port Female College, Lenoir, y. -,
and is now President Of WilliamSt iii Fe-
male College South Carolina. / agree
with Major Graham, we should try TO
keep the history correct. North Caro-
lima need not be ashamed OF her record
or of the men who made her record in
the past | think it will be of interest TO.
your readers while ON this subject ~
give a short sketch of General Joseph
Graham given by man living Eeyend
our borders Samuel Gardner Drake,
III his American Biography, speaks OF
General Graham as follows:
General Joseph Graham, born in
Chester county, Pa, October 18th, 1883.
Died in Lincoln county, y. c., November,
18th. 1886.
AT the age of Z he accompanied his
widowed mother to North Carolina. Ed
ucated at Charlotte; enlisted in the
Fourth North Carolina Regiment in May,
177S; was in the battle of Stono in 1779;
appointed adjutant of the Mecklenburg
regiment in 1880; and in an action at
Charlotte iii the autumn of 1880 received
six sabre and three bullet wounds. Re
covering two months after, he raised a
company of mounted rifemen with whom
he defended the passage of Cowan's
Ford ton Catawba River) and performed
q series of heroic deeds, commanding in
fifteen engagements, attaining to the
rank of Major. Elected sheriff of Neck
lenburg county after the war; frequently
represented the county in the State Sen
ate, and subsequently engaged in the
manufacture of iron in Lincoln county.
He commanded against the Greek In
dams in 1914, with the rank of Major
General; his youngest son, William A.,
was Secretary of the IL. 81 Navy"
That is what Mr.. Drake in brief says
of General Graham. We see that he
was born in the keystone" State,
which he could not help but became a
North Carolinian by choice, and adopted
North Carolina as his State.
Since the appearance of that piece in
the News and Observer | have received
letters from friends asking me 20 write
a sketch Of William Lander and also
of Major Conn0r Some one more com
petent must do that. l suggest that
Judge ID. Schenck, OF Greensboro, who
was the law co-partner of Mr.. Lander at
lincolnton, write sketch of his Efe
Judge Schenck is no novice at the bust
ness. When quite young he wrote Il
very interesting sketch of the life OF
"Hardaway Bone" Il man who came to
North Carolina from the Lrmkin gold
mines of Georgia and killed James Cor
neliCs in Catawba county in 1859, for
which he was tried convicted and hang
ed at Dallas, y. c.. Judge Schenck was
his counsel. Bone made a full statement
of all his crimes to the Judge. | remem-
ber to have read it with great interest
i'll my boyhood days. He also wrote
sketch Of the life of his gallant broth
er-in-law, Gen. bod S. Ramseur, and
last though not least he wrote book
that should be in every North Carolina
home, Invasion of the Carolinas 1891
by the British"
So Judge Schenck is eminently quail
fed for the task. If he cannot, then it
will devolve on Major w. A. Graham
and -Alf. Nixon, Esq. to write up the
worthless of their county William Lam
der, in my opinion, had no superior, and
but few equals as a lawyer i'll North
Carolina. The local bar in the COS at
Iincolnton. " c., could not be excelled.
Gel. w. p. Bynum (afterward Judge
of the Supreme Court, Col. John f.
Hoke, who had but few equals, the firm
of Lander Il Schenck (Schenck after
ward became a judge of the Superior
Court, his record as such is known.
William Shipp. who also became Judge,
ard probably III. W. Guion ct al. I do
not remember as to that. The names
Of the above are sufficient to indicate
my statement as to the Lincoln bar.
Referring again to Major II. W. Con-
nor. ] call to mind statement related
to me by Mr.. L. Caldwell. He says
just year or two preceding our Civil
War he was listening to Major Connor
and his (Caldwell's) father speaking of
! matters pertaining to cur government,
and Major Connor made what to us now