The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-12
EDITED BY JUDGE CLARK
The First Volume OF This Valuable
Work is Soon to be
Issued.
SECOND VOLUME IN HANDS OF PRINTER
The First Authentic List Of Generals From North
Carolina and Brief Sketch Of the Reg
ments and Brigades Furnishedby
This State in the War.

The first volume of the Histories of
the North Carolina Regiments in the
Great War 1861 65," written by mem
bers of the respective commands and
edited by Judge Walter Clark, is now in
the hands of the binder and will soon be
issued. The second volume is being print
ed. Under the act Of 1901 the work must
be completed by the printer by January
J., under a penalty of s25 for each days
delay thereafter.
The editor, in his preface to volume l.,
thus sets forth the story of the book
how it came to be written and why
More than two thousand years ago
Pericles, speaking. of his eountrymen who
had fallen in a great war, said: In all
time to come, whenever there shall be
speech of great deeds they shall be had
in remenferdnee. more truly than to the
Athenian soldiery can these memorable
words be APPLIED to those North CAROLYN
ians Who for four long years carried the
fortunes. of the. Confederacy. upon the
points Of their -bayonets. ~. s.. tcs......,.
With a voting population at the out.
break OF the war Of less than, $4,000,
North Carolina furnished to; the Confed-
crate cause as appears from Major.
Gordon's article herein, $4,000 troops. or
more than one-fifth of the men who
marched under the Southern flag, in adj
ditionl to the Militia and Home Guards
who rendered useful through short tours.
of duty, under State authority. In the
first battle of the war, at Bethel, North
Carolina was at the front and the first
man killed in battle was Wyatt from
Edgecombe When the great tragedy was
closing at Appomattox it was the men of
Cox's North Carolina Brigade of Grimes
Division who fired the last volley at the
foe The two great pivotal battles of the
war were Gettysburg in the East and
Chicamauga in the West. Upon them
turned the issue of the great struggle,
and in both the men who fell farthest to
the front, nearest to the muzzles OF the
enemys guns, were from North Carolina
regiments. This is demonstrated not only
by the narratives of witnesses in
these volumes but by the monuments
which the Federal Government has erect
ed on those great battle-fields to indi-
cate the 'Tigh-water mark to which the
tide of Southern success rose, and from
which after those days of historic strug
gle it painfully and slowly but surely
ebbed away.
mot. therefore, in boast but in sober
historic truth on the cover of these vol
umes. has been inscribed the lines which
tell the story of North Cardinals fidelity
to duty:
First at Bethel.
Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg and
Chicamauga.
last nj ADD0mattOX'
ut is to tell the plain unvarnished story
Of the men at the front that these
sketches have been written by those VINO
participated therein, and that by the au-
thority and at the expense, OF the state
they are now printed to hand down to
posterity an authentic account of what the
soldiery of this State suffered and dld IN
the discharge of their duty. 1t was in
scribed upon the stones piled above the
Spartan dead who died at Thermopylae:
Stranger, go, tell it in Lacedemon that
we lie here IN obedience to her command
North Carolina can never forget that in
obedience to her command more than
10000 Of her bravest best and brightest
young men fill soldiers graves from the
farthest north at Gettysburg to that far
Southern shore.
with their fame forever
'These dead have not died in vain. The
cause of Southern Independence for which
they fell has passed forever from among
men. Not an advocate remainsA But as
long as valor shall move the hearts of
men, as long as the patient endurance
of hardship aud fatigue, and danger in
the dischaI - of duty shall touch US, as
long as the sacrifice of life for the good of
ones country shall seem noble and grand,
so long shall the memory of the deeds
recorded in the plain, sober narratives in
these volumes written by men whose
gallantry is surpassed only by their mod
esty, and who were more eager to handle
the sword Than to use the pen, be pre-
served and cherished by their country
men" -
DIFFICULTIES OF THE WORK.
Here follows the resolution passed by
the State Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton at Raleigh in October, 1894, direct