The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-19
FORT FISHER MEMORIAL
TO COMMEMORATE MEMORIES
OF FALLEN HEROES
Mr.. Henry c. Mcqueen, President of
ceiving Ennds to Erect "a Marble
Slab 90 Those of Company d., Who
Were Killed ar the Battle of Fort
Fisher, 10, 1865.

A. Smith, of Fair Bluff, a movement
has been set on foot to erect d suitable
memorial to the heroes of Company D,
First battalion, North Carolina State
Troops, who We're killed in their gallant
defence of the %sallyport st Fort Fisher
when overwhelming numbers of the fed
erals swept down on them at the bloody
battle of January 10, 1865. Mr.. Henry
c. Mcqueen is receiving subscriptions to
the memorial fund, and he has been
particularly gratiied at the receipt of a
contribution from Colonel William L.
DeRosset. Of this city, h was a gal
liant confederate himself and while
fighting in Virginia was desperately
wounded in the war for southern indie
pendence. His contribution ie all the
more gratifying because he was not a
member of Company D. Mr.. Mcqueen
permits us to public the following cor
responsiveness:
Wilmington, y. c., Aug, Is.
III. c. Mcqueen, Esq, Wilmington, NC.
Dear Sir and Contradict am pleased
to have the opportunity Of contributing
my mite towards the erection of a mon
ument at Fort Fisher TO the gallant
body Of men who defended the sally
foANs g S1ecA ~
that displayed by any command which
fought for. states rights.
Yours truly,
WIN L.. DeROSSET."
Wilmington N. c., Aug, IA.
Colonel VIM. L. DeRosset, City:
Dear Friend and Contradictions
contribution to the fund for memorial
at Fort Fisher, to the men Of Company
ID, First battalion, who were killed in
that bloody assault, received, and it
gives me pleasure to thank you for it.
1t was not our original purpose to ask
for aid from veterans of other COM
mands, but o u letter, while not need
ed to show your interest in the cause,
breathes such a spirit of true and loyal
~comradship that 1 am constrained to
publish it, believing that there are
others who like you, fought and suffer
ed On other fields, and who also may
like to share in perpetuating the men,
Dry of those we seek to honor.
Your very truly,
"HENRY c. MCQUEEN"
No doubt the movement to nave the
survivors Of Company D to erect a
monument to their fallen comrades will
succeed and it is believed that other
companies that participated in the bat
tie will follow suit. 1t is quite proba-
BILE also hat the survivors on the fed
eral side will also erect memorials to
those who fell On their side.
VISITED THE SPOT WHERE HE
FOUGHT.
From the Lumberton Robesonian Of
August 9Th, We take the following ap-
peal to the members of Company d,
First North Carolina heavy artillery,
commanded by Captain James l.. Nc
Cormac, of Robson county:
Dear Comrades:
Two weeks ago in company with an
nfhar noiniStor of tho 06Snpl visited
the ruins Of old Fort Fisher. The
mound and sea face Of the fort is almost
gone, but the battery a he easily
identified. The mounds On the Ian face
of the fort are still in a good state of
preservation. Beneath the rays of the
burning sun I made my way through a
dense underground n foliage to the
exact spot where Company - was cut
to pieces and where brave men Of Robe
son county and other counties fell in
defence of their state and nation AS l
stood in that lonely and desolate gate OF
Fort Fisher, the forms Of our dead COM
radeS seemed to rise up before me and
1 saw once more in the ime gination
| Daniel Brown, Sellars McNejli. Laugh
lin D. McPhaul, Nat McGoogan, Daniel
James West, Sergeant Wilson, Captain
James McCormac n a host Of others.
AS I stood there in the presence of I'll
dead comrades my emotions were indie
Al0 OOAAAC ~ ~ 49,
in pathetic tones and say You and
others We're delivered in that storm Of
shot n shell which ended our lives
and now u bones are bleaching here
in this lonely and desolate spot and we
are forgotten; can't you do something
that will perpetuate our memory n
tell the generations to come that we
died at Fort Fisher in defence of our
country"
Right then and there I determined by
the help Of God to do something to per-
| petuate the memory Of our brave boys
who are now sleeping on the desolate
and lonely battlefield Of Fisher
Just as soon as I wen Jack to the
city Of Wilmington I had an interesting
interview with a member Of our COM
pany who was wounded in the Fisher
fight. I refer to Mr.. Henry G. MCQUEEN,
president OF the Murchison national
bank. We talked the matter over serf-
ously. and We determined at once to
head a movement to clean OF the
ground where our company stood from
the gate to the river and erect a marble
| slab upon which is to be inscribed the
J names Of eur brave boys who were