The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-08-13
MEMORIAL ON HAMPTON.
A WORTHY TRIBUTE TO A
GREAT SOLDIER.

The Confederate Veterans of South
Carolina Assembled in Green
vile Honor the Memory Of
Wade Hampton.
The following is the memorial pre-
sented by Col. Hoyt, a tribute to the
memory OF Gen. Wade Hampton and
adopted by the recent u. C. V. Con-
vention in Greenville:
The Confederate hosts are marching
on to victory! The world looks back
ward to Appomattox to hear nations
death cry! The dark and awful night
Of the Confederacy had then come,
and men were unprepafed for the hnal
shock of the contest which had been
waged for four years.
| It was an era more eventful than any
period in the worlds history, where
more battles were fought within a
given time than on any other portion
of the globe-great and terrible bat
| ties in which hundreds and thousands
were slain on both sides. Our great
leader said the time had come to sur
render, and yet at that moment, when
! the flag of truce was going forward,
some of Lees ragged, half starved
men were driving the enemy IN front
Of them.
In altogether another sense the thin
gray line that disappeared at Apo
mattox has achieved victories that are
not less important contributions to
the worlds history, and today for a
passing moment amid the sacred pleas
| ures of reunion we pause to recount
| the virtues of the slain who died in
| vain for freedom on the field or who
! have made record since that has
challenged the admiration of the men
and women who have known the Con-
federacy only as a memory OF the past.
In memorializing our own great
| chieftain in war and in peace, let us
recall some of those who were his COM
patriots in the triumphant tide of war
and in the hours of bitter anguish,
/ when the stoutest race that ever
fought was brought low in the dust Of
humiliation, and in the brighter days
that came with hope and reconcilia-
ton to take the place of haggard waste
and supreme despair. Let us enter
with Father Ryan the wondrous wood
| land where he, heard grand memo
Ram strain that came in solemn meas
ure till his soul, with comfort blessed,
Sank down among the lilies
| With folded wings to rest.
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Through the forests twilight aisle
Passed host with mufied footsteps,
! In martial rank and file;
And knew those gray-clad figures.
| Thus slowly passing by,
Were the souls of Southern soldiers
Who for freedom dared to die. -
| Look yonder at Albert Sidney Johns
ton, who on Shiloh's bloody field
yielded up his noble and unselfsh life
even when wicked and cruel SANDER
was dragging down his name, and his
yindication swiftly came to rebuke
and silence the vile tongues OF his
traducers. He was among the noblest
and brayest, and the South. will ever
cherish his glorious memory and IN
stained character.
Swift as the eagles wing there goes
Stonewan jackson, in whose ears rang
the victorious shouts of his own SOL
.diers at Charlottesville, as he pass
ed to his reward with crown of
glory won and his warfare accom-
plished. The civilized would recog-
| nizes the fact that the supremest attri-
butte of his character, though renown-
ed as militant soldier, was the in
| flexible devotion of his soul to the
cross of Christ, an humble, faithful,
| intrepid follower of the lowly NaZa-
fene.
The warrior priest. Leonidas Polk,
| the great and mighty leader of men,
| who counted it JOY to meet his Master
| while battling for the right and whose
life was freely given for the land he
| loved so we'll.
a. P. Hill, whose pure and noble
spirit ioined the martyred host Oh the
last battle plain, as 1t were; yeb
Stuart, the bold and daring cavaher
| whose funeral knell pealed forth amid
| the boom of his own artillery gallant
| Ashby's stalwart form was Laid IN an
early grave under the shadow OF his
own Blue Ridge, where the murmur-
| ing waters of the Shenandoah sing a
requiem over his earthly remains; the
matchless Pelham and the peerless
Pegram; the dashing, resourcefal Nor
gan and the incompatible Forrest, and
Jenkins, glorious jenkins, with his fear
| less, steady eye that laughed with trl-
umph when the battle-storm was raging !:
Kershaw, the chevalier without re-
proach Kennedy, the generous, lofty
spirit that knew not fear: Barnard +.
Bee, an officer of tried courage and
undoubted capacity, whose glorious
career was ended at Manassas, where
he gave his first orders in battle; Nil,
lege L. Bonham, of noble bearing and
! soldierly mien. who had served in
three wars; James Conner, kindly,
genial, chivalrous and true; Stephen
Elliott, Jr., famous for daring and
skillful fighting: n. G. Evans, the
hero of Stone Bridge and Leesburg,
commended for .''dauntless conduct
and imperturbable coolness;'' Maxcy
| g. IL l.,ro co11ior and trUa Oa-