The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

Lieutenant General. Mr.. James B. Lloyd,
in his entertaining and somewhat elaborate
address on General Pender, at Tarboro
over three years ago, gave this as to
Fender being made Major General:
Generals Lee and Jackson, after OBJ
serving his conduct and adroitness in bat
tie, repeatedly recommended him for pro-
motion, but President Davis, having a.
prediction for the old system of pro-
motion by seniority, was unwilling to de
part from that long established system
The ability, aptitude and courage OF Gen
eral Pender shone forth so conspicuously
thrat his promotion could no longer be
withheld"
Mr.. Lloyd gives also the following most
interesting account of Pender's splendid
gallantry:
while in the bloody and fearful con-
test at Charlottesville, the 22nd North
Carolina Regiment being subjected to a
most terrific fire, and the men of that gal
liant regiment becoming disheartened by
| the loss of brave CoIonel Cole and Ma jor
| Odell, they appeared to waver; but Gen
eral Fender, in great haste, rushed for
| ward, seized the flag and bore it to the
breastwork, followed by the remnant of
| that faithful regiment which never shirk
ed their duty nor failed to rally around
him."
l regret that 1 failed TO preserve Mr..
Lloyd's enLIre address / am Had to be
able, however, to make an extract from
an historical paper from the pen OF that
gallant Virginian, Drigadier General James
H. Lane, who commanded so ably a Ia
nous North Carolina Brigade. He writes:
"All know that Gettysburg was carried
on the first day by Ewell's corps and
Heth's and Pender's divisions of a. p.
Hills corps, and that, while the former
command entered Gettysburg on the left,
the latter after. a bloody struggler car
ried Seminary Hill on the right. On
| July End Pender's division composed OF
Lanes, Scales, McGowans and Thomas
| brigades, extended from the Fairfield road
| to the right along Seminary Hill IN
| the order mentioned above and there was
gallant fighting along its front between
| its sharpshooters and those OF the enemy
| for the possession of road running be-
| tween the two lines of battle. Our men
succeeded in driving the men from the
| road and held it. 1t was General Penders
| intention to advance that afternoon, had
! the attack on the right been more sue
cessful While the right of his com
mand watching the progress of the fight
our accomplished and Christian division
commander, who had won so many laurels
on so many hard-fought battlefields re-
ceived his fatal wound and the command
of his division devolved upon his senior
| Brigader.'
| He died of his wound at Staunton, Va,
on Sth July, 1863 His testimony as to his
religious hopes as given to his chaplain,
Rev. Mr. Williams, was this, and it is
| enougn-the last expression of a Chris
| tian soldiers confidence in the complete
| ness OF the Atonement of Christ and his
unfaItering trust in the Redeemer:
Tell my wife that l do not fear to die.
l can confidently resign my soul to God,
trusting in the atonement OF Jesus Christ.
My only regret is to leave her and our
children. l have always tried to do my
duty in every sphere in which Providence
has placed me-
No State. no country, no people in any
age ever possessed truer soldier than
L
knightly Christian soldiers as Robert e.
Lee and Thomas ]. Jackson and James
Johnston Pettigrew. A prominent Vir-
ginian lawyer, the late Mr. Wallace, then
the Nestor of the Petersburg (Va) bar,
whose wife was a cousin OF General A. F.
Hill, told the late Rev. Dr. Thomas II
Pritchard and the writer of this, in his
porch after the two North Carolinians had
dined with HMM 1867, that he once ask
ed General Hill, when dining with Mr. w.
during the siege of Petersburg by General
u. S. Grant, who was the best officer
Of his grade he ever knew" The reply
was after a few moments reflection
GENERAL FENDER" published
this when DR.. Pritchard was living in Our
Living and Our Dead, October, 1864 /
also published during the lifetime of my
departed friend, lwhat Mr.. Wallace also
told us to another reply of General Hills,
that fairly astonished the venerable law
yer. He asked General Hill what troops
he would rather command? His reply was
NORTH Carolinians" Mr.. Wallace said
that it greatly astonshed him as both
General Hill and himself were Virginians
He asked the General why this opinion
or preference? The reply was this: BE
cause the North Carolnans are better
soldiers. They are more obedient to au
thority than any others, and are equally as
brave, and so they are really better sol
diers They will do what you command
them to do" You could trust the North
Carolinians to advance or remain at
given place and they would be sure to
obey-to stick. | recall that commission
was sent to the army TO discover its con
dition at certain time i'll the winter
months. After investigation they said
that they found but one command that
was ready to move upon short notice and
it was General Pender's Division. That
showed the kind of soldier he was II
lately gave what General Lee said to
Major James II. Foote, of North Caro-
lima Major Foote still lives, | am glad
to know, for he is my personal friend
Prior to the war he WIS professor in
Wake Forest College, the leading Baptist
scholastic institution today in all the
Southland, DOUBT not. Major Foote told