The National tribune., 1903-11-05
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA.

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VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA.
As the students Of the war know, there
has always been a great deal o. Jealousy.
amounting to bitterness, between North
Carolina and Virginia as to their respec
tive shares in the war. The North Caro-
linians bave claimed that while they had
to do the bigger part of the fighting, and
undoubtedly lost the most men on the
field of battle, the Virginians, Trough
their newspapers at Richmond and
through the War Department, which was
largely run by Firginjans. absorbed all
the credit. They say that wherever
Virginia regiment had a skirmish, it was
made the most of, while terrible battles
fought by the North Carolinians were
either passed by with little mention or
else the credit given to Virginia troops
and Generals. For instance, they say
that it was North Carolina which fought
the first battle at Big Bethel, and
saved Virginia to the Confederacy," and
that the North Carolinians were the last
at Appomattox." They are particularly
sore about P:ckett's charge, claiming that
Pettigrew's Brigade, of Heth's Division.
composed wholly of North Carolina regi-
ments, went further, did harder fighting
and suffered much greater loss than the
Virginians in Pickett's Division. Yet Pet.
tigrew is never mentioned in connection
with the charge. all the credit being abb
ID H.;
At the meeting of the Grand Camp of
Virginia Confederate Veterans, at New
port News, last week. Judge George l..
Christian. of Richmond, Chairman Of the
Committee ON History, presented an elab-
crate repost, of which the following is
Geographic abstract:
1.-THE report shows from official records
that the claim made by North Carolina
that she furnished more troops to the Con
federacy than any other Southern State
is not true, but that Virginia furnished
$1,000 more than North Carolina; that the
claims that Virginia had a larger number
of men exempted than any other South
ern State is also mistake; that, while
the total exempts' in Virginia amounted
to 25,O63, those in North Carolina num-
bered 3S,1G6, and that North Carolina
had 10 times as many State officers
exempted on certificates of her Governor
as any other Southern State; that the sug-
gestion that one Of the effects of the fight
ing Of the LIST N. G. at Bethel was the
possible holding of Virginia in the Con
fnda in nd
without any foundation whatever. Yir-
ginia was represented by Commanding
General and three branches of the service.
while North Carolina was represented only
by one.
1.-THE report discusses the claim of North
at Gettysburg in the great charge of July
3, 1863 from the official reports, both
Federal and Confederate, and shows from
these reports that this claim is not sus-
tanned by the record. 1t quotes from the
reports of Gems. Lee, Longstreet, and
Lane; Coils. Lawrence, Shepherd, and
others of the Confederates, and Gems.
Hancock. Webb, and Hunt, of the Fed
erals, all Of which show that the only
troops which penetrated the ene:ny's lines
were Pickett's Virginians and some of
Archer's Brigade, the latter composed
wholly Of Tennesseeans and Alabamians."
There Is one impOrtan. feature about
this, and that IL the claim that Virginia
furnished 5000 more men to the Confed-
crate armies than North Carolina. North
Carolina has complete rolls, which have
been published in book form, showing
147, 900 men regularly enlisted in the Con
federate armies. Therefore, il Virginia
furnished $1,000 more men, she must have
sent 1913, 900 men. This would make Vir-
ginia and North Carolina to have fur
nished 100000 men, effectually disposipg
of the claim of Southern historians that
they had but 100000 men in their armies
If Virginia and North Carolina furnished
346, 600 men, it leaves a mighty small
contingent of the 100000 to be furnished
by the great States Of South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Maryland, Mississippi, Louis
lana, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. 1t
goes a great way to support The National
Tribune's position that the Southern Con-
federacy had about 100000 men in the
field.
North Cardinals reply IL waited for
with interest.
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