The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-09-18

Strong Plea For the Perpetuation
Of Southern Valor.
WANTS ROSTER OF GEORGIA SOLDIERS
Tells of'the Good Work Done by North
Carolina and Is Anxious that
Georgia Lawmakers Take
Some Action.

Gainesville, Ca, August 2i.-Editor
Constitution. | am not we'll and may
not write many more letters for your
readers, and therefore write this one
to you to enlist yourinterest and hearty
cooperation in a matter that is very
near my heart and l am sure would
be as near to yours IL you were TWEEN.
ty years older and had more time.
have received the FIVE volumes OF
history compiled and edited by Judge
Walter Clark, now the chief Justice Of
the state of North Carolina. This is
no ordinary work. 1t is on a higher
plane than any have ever seen, and
is to the land what Service Afioat"
is on the sea. For seven years Of
unremitting toll Judge Clark has
worked on this labor of love without
pay or reward gave that which comes
from the accomplishment of a sacrec
duty faithfully performed. OF course,
he has had capable and willing co.
operators who OFT of the 254 sketches
wrote 179 Of them. Judge Clark wrote
all of the others, besides a full half
volume (Hfth) Of graphic events and
comments that concern all the south.
ern states as much as North Carolina,
and which includes the first published
history Of the North Carolina navy
the Albemarle and Shenandoah and
Florida and some other smaller cruls.
ers and blockade, runners. It is wor.
thy Of mention Just here that Com
mander Waddell, of the Shenandoah,
was the last man to keep the confed'
crate flag at the masthead, for his YES
sci was in the mid-Pacifc ocean and
he did not know of the fall of the con-
federacv until the 18th of August,
1865, and had sea fight with the enc
my on June 4. The volumes are beau
tifuly bound In gray and gold. The
paper and the printing is Of the best
quality and their pages embelllshed
with over 800 portraits and battle
scenes. These portraits are, OF course,
a reproduction, eight to page, Of the
old-tlme photographs that the mothers
Of the dead and living boys furnished
to the engravers. These engravlngs
were reproduced by that patriotic
southerner Major Patton, president OF
the University Publishing Company,
New York, without cost The volumes
are quite large containing 800 pages
each Judge Clark selected the best
men to write the sketches of their reg.
iments.
Truth Of History Guaranteed.
What guaranty of truth and cul. |
ture when we see in this list of con
trlbutors such eminent and patriotic
names as General D. II. Hill, General
Clergyman, Governor Vance and his
brother Robert, General Toon, Colonel
DeRossett, MAJOR Graham, Major
Moore (who compiled the roster twen-
ty years ago., DR.. Moses Hoge, Of
Richmond, and captains and lleuten.
ants by the score. And there are min
listers and privates mingled in whose
work is well and ably done There
were eighty-four full regiments and
twenty-eight battaions besides the
state troops (home guards and every
regiment and battalion had one or
more historians, 1t is a magnificent
work and II were North Carolinian
and lived far away I would purchase
a set II had to do without tobacco
and whiskey for a month, for the price
is only IS. There are 1900 names In
dexed In these volumes and | would
be sure that some Of them were kin to
me or my folks. What a wonderful
state. Their long forbearing people
twice sent commission to Washing
Ton to plead for a peaceful solution
and avoid war, but got no promise or
consideration, and then they made war
az one mainland all the women. They
had only $4,000 Of full grown men OF
II In the state, but they could not
keep the boys out and $4,000 troops
were enrolled. What a sad comment
must come in here, for 1t is a matter
OF record that of these, troops 41,000
we're killed or died in the service.
have the old roster before me in four
volumes containing $4,000 names ana
appended to every name are signlh-
can't letters tellingg when he enlisted
md where and what became OF him.
Sounds IN Alarm.
But why am Writing so earnestly
iDout thisY Because wish our own
''ate to do Something Of the kind be-
ore It is forever too late 1t is aIarm'
ng 70 read In JlIdge Clark's "ReYiew