The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-28
Warren County Pays It's
Tribute.
Continued from First Page.)
"And yet, and yet we cannot forget
That many brave boys must fall"

''And yet, and yet we cannot forget
That many brave boys must fall"
IS
In the main the troops from Warren
county were modified into nine com
panies; A, the Guards; G, the Rifles, and
X OF the Second Regiment of Volunteers
afterwards F, C and X, OF the Twelfth
State troops and f of the Eighth regi-
ment; e of the Ninth regiment First
Cavalry; B of the Thirtieth regiment
Company C, of the Forty-third regiment.
and c, of the Forty-siXth regiment
They all served in the army Of North
ern Virginia; the companies of the
Twelfth regiment and Company E, of the
First. Cavalry throughout the war; the
company of the Thirtieth and that of the
Forty sixth from early in 1862; the com
pany of the Forty-third from and includ-
ing Gettysburg, and the companies of the
eighth at the Battle of Cold Harbor,
June 3rd, 1864 The Eighth did service
in North and South Carolina and at
Drewry's Bluff under Beaureguard in May,
1864. A number of boys between seven
teen and eighteen were in the service Of
the State in the Seventieth regiment
(First Junior Reserves).
How many they all numbered can never
be accurately computed In February,
1862, a muster and militia roll of Warren
was made and it was then ascertained
that including those already in service
there were 1,O17 men between eighteen
and fifty years Of age in the county; 1855
were in the field; $50 more who had vol
unteed and were ready to go; 95 who were
exempt, leaving 2S6 efficient for military
he s,p
war which followed, the military age
having been reduced in 1864, February,
to sixteen years and extended to fifty a
reasonable calculation would probably in
crease by two hundred the number enum-
Grated III February, 1862. The white pop
ulation at that time was 5000 There
were about 900 men between eighteen and
forty five. We sent to the field probably
200 soldiers. The number of deaths were
probably 800; one-half from sickness ana
the remainder killed in battle.
These soldiers were in the front ranks
of those who made imperishable the fame
of the Army of Northern Virginia; that
army that during its four years OF exls-
tence was never broken in battle though
out of them all it went its way dripping
with blood; that army that had always
been chivalric in its treatment of prison
ers; that was always scrupulous in its
respect for womankind and most careful
of the rights of private property; that
for three years by the flash from it's
musketry was a sheet of flame encrclng
the borders of the Confaderacy and con
Stunning like stubble fresh armies and
| fresh generals of its enemy and twice
bursting the boundaries of its territory
leaped into the heart of its enemies
country; that made immortal almost
every hill and dale of the Old Dominion
and electrified the civilized world with its
deeds of valor.
These men followed the fortunes of
that army as its columns moved around
the Capital of the Confederacy in the
Seven Days battles, thence TO Boones-
borough and Sharpsburg, thence TO Fred
ercksburg and Charlottesville, and Get
tysburg and the Wilderness and Spott-
silleyania, and thence to Second Cold
Harbor where their courage and their
craftsmanship brought their foe to a
standstill, and thence to the trenches
around Petersburg and the dreadful eight
months Siege, and thence to Appomattox
The blood OF those who went out not to
return mingled freely with that of some
of the survivors who are with us today
enriches every battle field of Virginia. Or
one OF them the Malvern Hills, the spot
of all the earth where human courage
was most supremely tested the Warner