The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-29
Let the Giant Liars Die
of Shame and Con-
FUSION"
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interesting address delivered at the Get
Battle Ground Celebration IN July
last. He tells ~ the destruction OF his re-
glment. the 26th North Carolina, and
Their steady advance, driving the enemy
gradually before them. He says.
Several lines q the enemy have given
away. but a most formidable line vet re-
mains, which seems determined 10 hold
It's position. Volleys OF musketry are fast
thinning out those left only a skeleton
Inc now remains. To add to the horrors
Of the scene, the battle smoke has settled
down over the conbatants making Il al
most a dark as night. But these mer are
~undaunted. They never tire, their muscles
are made OF iron. With a cheer they
greet every order to advance; they rush
on ard upward: now they reach the
summit Of the hill. the last line OF the
enemy gives way and suddenly r~etires.'
He was fearfully wounded al the close.
In the war he was five times wounded, |
think. No soldier could possibly show
more perfect. more conspicuous yalor. In
many battles the North Carolina soldiers
suffered more than any other-in the Sew
en- Days Battles Around Richmond. at
Sharpsburg. in the Wilderness, at Get
tysburg, and others. Why this? Col. Fox.
Of Albany, New York, in his book al
ready cited, say that "a study OF regl-
mental actions shows clearly that the bat
taIons which faced musketry the stead
lest, the longest, and the oftenest. were
the ones whose aggregate los during the
was was greatest. Fighting regiments
leave a bloody wake behind them; retreat
ing regiments lose few men. At Chancel-
louisville the heaviest losses were in the
onI"ps fhnt S+nn1 NOT ~ tho ~ +hn4
broke The North Carolina troops were
always at the front. on the fre-line. At
Gettysburg the North Crolina troops on
the third day went farther, and stayed
longer and had more men killed than
Pickett's Division Of Virginians.' So says
the Philadelphia Press. and it is the truth.
The able editor OF the Abbeville Is. c.
Medium, puts it in this wise:
"Pickett's Division of the Army of
Northern Virginia is rarely heard of either
before or after Gettysburg. No body of
troops during the last war made as much
reputation on so little fighting. Newspaper
men did the work by printers ink and
the casualties We're small.
Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine were
captured at Gettysburg. More than this
number 'absouatulated' when Petersburg
fell and there was a probability of leaving
Virginia. Picketts division made a poor
show at the surrender at ADpOmattoX."
After the desperate fighting and ire
mendous losses at Gettysburg, Genera
Lees army retired. General PettlgreW
with others covering the retreat, when at
Falling Waters, a dash of Yankee cavalry
was made upon his command. In the
skirmish he was mortally wounded, being
in command Of the rear guard. He died
on the 18th July, 1863, near Bunker's Hill
Virginia. His mortal remains were buried
at his ancestral home, BOnarva, IN Tyr
rell county, North Carolina, his dear IA.
tive State. Capt. Bond says that there
he lies buried near the beautiful lake
CLake Phelps, l SUPPOSE, whose sandy
shores his youthful feet We're wont tC
tread" There reposes his perishing body
but having accepted Jesus Christ as hi
Redeemer, his immortal part, his soul,
is where his Saviour is. No purer, nobler
more hnightly hero gave his life to the
great, precious cause. He was thirty-fivt
years and thirteen days old. and was borI
and died in the same month, July.
1t VIII be interesting to many TO know
what that illustrious Virginian, Commo
dore Matthew w. Maury. who was bette
known. it was said in a leading Northern
publication before the war, IN Europ,
than any other American except Georg'
Washington. DR.. Kemp p. Battle hat
heard it reported that the eminent VIT
sinian had spoken in exalted terms o
General Pettigrew, so he wrote to tn
accomplished daughter of the great Vir
ginian. She wrote in reply that she ha'
heard her father more than once say tina
If by the casualties of war General LIE
were to be killed or to retire from tn
command of the army, that General Pet
tlgreW was the man above all others t
succeed him." DR.. Battle is the effcien
Professor of History in the University 0
North Carolina, and he is true to ances
trail faiths and Southern traditions an,
the views and ~sympathies of the true pee
pie of all our dear Southland.
Let me give here a very interesting in
cident that was communicated to me b
one OF the purest, truest, best of men
the brother of General Pettigrew. Rev
William S. Pettigrew, OF the Eplscopa
Church. Standing face to face IN tn
room of the Superintendent Of Public II
.struction at Raleigh, in 1875, told hin
Of my exalted admiration of his brother
when he said he would tell me of a mos
interesting incident that occurred a
Charleston, S. c., when the great Sout
Carolina statesman and n~atrIOt, John c
Calhoun, was brought from Washingto
City, in which city lie had died while
member of the United States Senate, 70
sepulture. While the body was lying i
state, the most distinguished Of all Soutl
Carolina lawyers, Nj. James l.. Petlgru
accompanied by a prominent and venera
bic citizen, whose name escapes me, lean
ing upon his arm, they stood by the re
mains and viewed in silence the face 0
the departed mastery and logical states
man. The friend said to Mr.. Petlgru
calhoun IS dead, and alas. there is n
one to take his place To this opinion
Mr.. Petigru replied: You are mistaken
l know a higher intellect than Mr.. Ca
houn ever had Who can it be +" aske
his friend. Mr.. Pettigrew replied: M
kinsman, Johnston Pettigrew." Remember
that though young, General Pettigre1
had been for some years the law partne
Of the great lawyer. Surely James John
ston Pettigrew richly deserves a statu
at the hands of his people-the apprecia
tive, manly, grateful people OF Mort.