The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-20
A NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORY OF THE WAR
Sketches OF the Regiments
in This State.
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.
NOW IN HANDS PRINTER
The Work Will Comprise Two Hand
some Volumes.
IT IS EDITED BY JUDGE WALTER CLARK

The idea of printing histories of the
regiments from North Carolina who
served in the great war Of 1~S61-'65, orig
mated in the Veterans Association Of
1894 when Judge Walter Clark was re-
Guested to secure one member of each
regiment to write it's eventful history
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 E. NJ. Uzzell. Excellent
paper and type have been selected and the
result will be two handsomely Illustrated
volumes. The illustrations are also furn~
ished 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, 1885, which is
the frontispiece to volume I. Randall's
three colonels' which is the frontispiece
to the sketch of the historic 18th regi-
ment, a full page illustration of Steamer
~ III ny ouptdIh LII
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
belong. The frontispiece of volume II.
will be Lieutenant General d. H. 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 colonels. Lieutenant General
Holmes will be added to the frontispiece
of volume II. if 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 1916 or
soon after the war. Even then, if not in
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 Caroline faithfully, both what ha
did and how he looked.
The State OWLS the work. end 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
q single copy under the act.
The work is entirely a North Carolina
work. pre-eminently so. 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
bound in the State. Altogether it is in
its entirety 'of, for and by North Caro-
linians.'