The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-09
The Southern Volunteers
KNOWN TO FAME
Who Went to Mexico in 40


LAOEs brave SOlultES-
South Carolina-s Legislature voted
three swords TO be given TO the three
bravest men in the army from her
State These was presented to General
D. H. Hill. of whom General J. r John
son said In Mexico the young officers
called you the brayest man in the army
This is a son of the Old North state
by adoption; Huger. Chief Of Ordinance:
Butler. who with his men gained with
the First Mississippi Regiment more
reputation than any Of the other yolun-
teers IN Quinman's Southern Division.
Georgia sent Tattnall. who with his
men. in a little gun-hoat. achieved one
of the brilliant exploits OF the war ~
his attack on San Juan DUlloa. and the
batteries or Vera Cruz.
Mississippi sent the Mississippi Rides
and another regiment who won great
honors for her In all history. the tax
ing Of Belen Gate BY General Quitman
stands among the first. OF daring. bril-
liant achievements.
Louisiana sent men like Beauregard.
Illinois and Ohio too gave OF their
best. Lane. OF Indiana, won the battle
of Huamontla.
Kentucky allows no one TO forget the
meaning OF her name. in every war she
gives men who ight until victory is Won
or who die with their faces to the enemy.
Tennessee and Missouri. also sent men
she proudly owns.
Maryland, Ny Maryland" is never
e~clipsed. She gave Fred Ringgold, the
organizer Of Horse Artillery" and Ran
dolph Ridgeley, his daring successor.
Twas Ridgeley who shouted Hold on
Charley until I draw their fire when
May was about to try the novel expert
ment OF a cavalry charge. May was the
hero Of the charge on the Mexican bat
teries.
Did you know that battles were timed
by minutes? Contreras was fought and
won in twenty minutes, and those vol
unteers took Puebla without a fight.
WAS this q "walk-over2'D
How many know Of Doniphan's march
from st. Louis through Santa Fe to Tay-
lor at Saltillo, having three battles az
large as San Juan Hill, and cOnQuering
all this country without a paymaster or
base OF supp4es? Then there was Gen.
Kearney and Col. Fremont in the West.
with Commodores Sloat, Stocton and
Montgomery.
Mexico declared war against the United
States the 23rd Of March, 1916. the treaty
of peace was signed the 2nd of February,
1913, and in this short time Qess than
two years. the men lighting for the
rights under the Star Spangled Banner,
won for the United States Texas. Cali
fornia, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New
Mexico. $50, 400 square miles. Wouldn't
the maps of North America look queer
if all that western and was Of one color
and marked "Mexico?"
Has there ever been a monument raised
to these men or TO the battles they won?
Surely they should have a triumphant
arch for being victorious in this War of
Victories.
Ohio and Kentucky have State Associa-
tions and have annual reunions. Have
any of the other States these organiza-
tons? The National Association of
Mexican Veterans will hold their Reunion
at Paris, Ky, on the 25th Of September.
1902. How many of the "old Vets" will
meet and talk of the "old times and be
boys again" for a few days. laugh at
the hard tack colder than they were)
they had to eat, and that some of tho
boys said they could not cat alive so
scalded it Tor thcm) in their coffee made
from parched beans, and the heavy KNAPP
sacks and other troubles that one can
laugh and grumble about while under
going times that try mems souls
Last week there came a letter from
Indiana, telling a little of what the IN
diana boys had to bear on their way to
Mexico. Their ship was caught in a
tornado while crossing the Gulf. and the
men had to go into the hold and fastcn-
ed the matches down to keep from being
washed away, then they were wrecked on
an island and here they staid for two
days before they were rescued and taken
to the main land. without nothing TO
keep them alive but their brave hearts.
At every Reunion the ranks of tho
Veterans look as decimatcd as did those
Of the Mississippi Rifles at their parade
after the battle of Buena Vista. That
these few may witness the organization
at their reunion in September. Some
women will meet with them and organize
a society to be to this war what the
Daughters of the Revolution and United
Daughters of the Confederacy arc to tho
Revolution and Confederate War. 1t is
woman's work to collect the history made
by these men and to perpetuate the
memories of the battles won and hard
ships borne. From all over the Union
the trophies and flags should be gathered
and placed in a home of their own.
Are there living any of the women who
gave the flag to the First North Caro-
lima Regiment? Won't those women and
their daughters land the women who gave
any flag to any of the regimcnttal sol
diers) raise a company" of women to
preserve the honor and glory won in this
one Of the greatest wars Of history?
The staff Of our flag is in the Museum
at Raleigh. but we have never been able
to learn what became of the flag.
The Old Vets are 50 DIGaScd at tho
thought that the women wish to give
them all the honor they can, and letters
come from everywhere. General Frost,
of St. Louis, was the first TO offer en-
enlargement and give advice; then Gen.
Hobson, who was the national president
Of the association and who died the last
day of the reunion at Cleveland last
year; and Mrs. Keneday, whose husband
alexander Eeneday) organized the Ma
tional Association Of Mexican Veterans,
hoe uyr;f+cn tpo cauj0- cha hn0aj ~ 1.-Two