The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-04
Strong Plea For the Perpetuation
OF Southern Valor.
GIANTS ROSTER OF GEORGIA SOLDIERS
Tells CT the Good Work Done by North
Garclina and is Anxious that
Georgia Lawmakers Take
Some Action.


10 You 50 enlist your interest and hearty
cooperation in matter that is very
near my heart and | am sure would
DE as near to yours if you were TWEEN
~ years older and had more time.
1 have received the five volumes OF
History compiled and edited by Judge
Walter Clark, now the chief justice of
abe state Of North Carolina. This is
no ordinary work. 1t is On a higher
p2ane than any have ever SEEN and
Is 20 the land what Service Afoat"
Us On the sea. For seven years of
wnreTGitting toll Judge Clark has
worked On this labor Of love without
pay or reward save that which comes
from the accomplishment of a sacreo
duty faithfully performed Of course
ne has had capable and willing CO.
operators who out of the 254 sketches
wrote 179 Of them. Judge Clark wrote
ali CT the others, besides a full half
volume (hfth) of graphic events and
GrE states as much as North Carolina
and which includes the first published
history OF the North Carolina navy
the Al5emarle and Shenandoah and
Florida and some other smaller cruis
sFs and blockade runners. 1t is wor-
thy OF mention just here that Com
nIander 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-
SedeFaey until the 10Th of August,
1865. and had a sea fight with the enc
WY ON June 4. The volumes are beau
S2fuly bound in gray and gold The
paper and the printing is Of the best
quality and their pages embelished
with over 900 portraits and battle
: scenes These portraits are, of course
Il reproduction, eight to a page, Of the
Gsld-tIEae photographs that the mothers
of the dead and living boys furnished
to the engravers. These engravings
were reproduced by that patriotic
s0utherner, Major Patton, president OF
the University Publishing Company,
New York, without cost. The volumes
are quite large containing 500 pages
each Judge Clark selected the best
men 20 write the sketches of their reg
1mentS.
Truth Of History Guaranteed.
What a guaranty of truth and cul-
Gure when we see in this list of con-
Sributors such eminent and patriotic
names as General D. II. Hill, General
Clergyman, Governor Vance and his
brother Robert, General Toon, Colonel
DeEioGsett, MAJOR Graham, Major
-s1ooTe (who compiled the roster TWEEN
ty years ago., Dr.. Moses Hoge, of
Aich1Dond, and captains and lieuten-
ants by the score And there are min
zsters and privates mingled in whose
work is well and ably done. There
were eighty-four full regiments and
overweight battalions besides the
state troops (home guards) and every
regiment and battalion had one or
more historians. 1t is magnificent
work and if l were North Carolinian
i
IA set If | had to do without tobacco
and whiskey for month, for the price
As 0nly SIS. There are 1900 names in
s1exa7 IN these volumes and l would
be- sure that some of them were kin to
me or my folks. What a wonderful
STATE Their long forbearing people
n toe rs yoc ;n
Lon 10 plead for peaceful solution
ard avoid war, but got no promise or
constd Grafton, and then they made war
as enc man-and all the women. They
Dad only $4,000 of full grown men Of
II In the state, but they could not
keep the boys out and 125 900 troops
were enrolled. What sad comment
nuast come in here, for it is a matter
Of record that of these troops 41000
aware killed or died in the service.
have The old roster before me in four
T0tumes containing $4,000 names ana
anp@nded to every name are signifi-
cant letters telling when he enlisted
and where and what became of him.
Sounds an Alarm.
BHf why am l writing so earnestly
about this? Because | wish our own
9tate 10 do something of the kind be-
fore it is forever too late. 1t is alarm
2ng To read in Judge Clark's Review
aad Conclusion" how many Of his con-
tri6RtOrS died before they had finished
2IzGlr sketches and either he or some
either had to take it up and complete
IT. Now the cost Of the work to the
zszfs is 81 per volume. which il The
zaGs1szRf cost OF the. paper, printing,
binding and engraving. The greater
C0rtion is as readable and fascinating
zS . romance and will brighten up
aUd fasten the patriotism of our young
me whether they be from Mort, Car
Gazsna or Georgia
Now, some Of us old veterans wish
Ire Constitution to start this ball in