The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-09-26
BILL APPS APPEAL
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.

Cartersyile, Ca, August 2iy--Edltor
Constitution: am not we'll and may
not write many more letters for your
readers, and therefore write this one
to you to enlist your interestand hearty
cooperation in a matter that Is very
near my heart, and / am sure would
be. as near to yours II you were TWEEN
ty years older and had more time.
have received the Ave 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. II Is on a higher
plane than apy have ever seen, and
/ Is to the land what Service Afloat"
Is on the sea. For seven years OF
unremitting toll Judge Clark has
worked on this labor Of love without
/ pay OF reward save that which comes
from the accomplishment Of sacred
duty faithfully performed OF course,
he has had capable and willing CO.
operators who oCt Of the 254 sketches
wrote 179 of them. Judge Clark wrote
all OF the others, besides a full half
volume (ffth) 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. 1t 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-Pacific ocean and
he did not know Of the fall Of the con-
federacy until the 18th of August,
1865, and had a sea fight with the enc
my on June E. 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 900 portraits and battle
scenes. These portraits are, of course,
a reproduction, eight to page OF the
old-time 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 a guaranty of truth and cul-
ture when we. see in this list Of con-
tributors such eminent and patriotic
names as General D. H. Hill, General
Clergyman, Governor Vance and his
brother Robert, General Toon, Colonel
DeRossett, Mayor Graham, Major
Moore (who compiled the roster TWEEN
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 eightyfour full regiments and
twenty-eight battalions besides the
state troops (home guards and every
regiment and battalion had one or
more historians. 1t is a magnificent
work and if were a North Carolinian
and lived far away l would purchase
a set If had to do without tobacco
and whiskey for a month, for the price
is only S.. There are 1900 names in
dexed 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 forbearlng people
twice sent a commission to Washing
ton to plead for a peaceful solution
and avoid war, but got no promise or
consideration, and then they made war
as one man-and all the women They
had only $4,000 of full grown men OF
81 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 it is a matter
of record that Of these troops $1,000
were killed or died in the service.
have the old roster before me in four
volumes containing $4,000 names and
appended to every name are signif
cant letters telling when he enlisted
and where and what became of him.
Sounds an Alarm.
But why am l writing so earnestly
about this? Because l wish our own
state to do something Of the Kind be-