The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-12

a moment to ask: MY dear Colonel,
are you severely hurt?' A bowed head
and motion to the left SIDE anu
pressure of the hand is the oiliy re-
| spouse; but he looked as pleasant as
| if victory were on his brow ~
In one OF my many articles III Ahs
! News and Observer I wrote OF Colohel
Lanes admirable address, gave some
/ interesting and instructive extracts,
mutilating my copy to do SO. Here
/ can reproduce but the following in
| addition:
| Colonel Lane was soon suf1lclently
| recovered from his severe wound 10
! take charge Of the regiment. IL SUI
fered the brunt of battle at BflstoW
! Station, was pronounced the best
drilled regiment at the Battle OF the
Wilderness and brought Into that
fight 100 men, and fought there IN
! splendid form, many of those wound
ed at Gettysburg having returned, and
the numbers being increased by re
cruits. IT was in every important en-
gagement in which Kirkland's or Me
Rae's Brigade was engaged from the
Wilderness to AppomattoX. Its Col
onel was wounded five times and twice
saved from death by the quick mark
manship of his men. 1t suffered ter
rible priVations in the trenches around
Richmond; it was in the line broken
at Five Forks, and yet il was at APP
pOmattOX where it surrendered 120
more muskets than any other OF the
| North Carolina regiments except one,
the 18th, which surrendered only two
more"
| What should be said of any man
who dared to say one word IN dis
] paragement OF such a magnificent re-
giment? North Carolina never had a
friend in General oOoStTppt | make
, an entertaining excerpt from Capt.
/ Bonds book:
General Longstreet had in this
| campaign nine North Carolina regi-
ments, whose killed and wounded
veraged one hundred and four. In
! his corps there were eighty regiments
from other States and their average
! was sixty-four In the eighty there
! were twenty-five Virginia regiments
and their average was thirty-two. The
Forty Eighth North Carolina had
more men killed and wounded than
any regiment of its corps. The Third
North Carolina, of Jackson's corps,
had more men killed and wounded
| than any regiment in the army. In
i fact, more than the entire brigades of
/ Generals Armistead and Garnett com
I bined. At the conclusion of his re-
port of the operations of this cam
|
the names of thirty eight officers who
had distinguished themselves for gal
| lantry. In this number there is not
one brigade or regiment commander
| from North Carolina"
| The Gallatin Glenn essee) Examiner
writing Of Capt. Bonds book, says:
This pamphlet makes glorious
| showing for the resolute courage and
intrepidity of the North Carolina
! troops, but it is endorsed by the brave
boys here who fought by their side. II
also pays a high tribute to the Ten
| resseeeans engaged in that bloody
| fight
Lieutenant Colonel w. w. owen, of
New Orleans, wrote of Bonds book
q was at the battle of Gettysburg
and / think his account of ii will agree
with my idea about it, at least as far
as Pickett was concerned"
l can give but q small part of tes-
| timonies in Bonds book, emitting
| many entirely:
Colonel George Meade, of Phhadel-
phia, the son of General Meade, who
! commanded the Federal forces in this
battle, writes: Il am glad TO IND IN
| it certain facts that confirm what has
been my own impression as to the inn
portant part taken by the North Caro-
! lima troops in the assault at Gettys-
| burg on the afternoon of the Bird OF
| July"
T. Blyler, Captain in the Twelfth
| New Jersey, writes: your division
| (meaning Pettfgrews) advanced in
| our front and we bear willing testi-
mony to your bravery and to your
penetrating farther than Pickett"
j. ID. Vautier, of Philadelphia, his
torian of the Eighty-eighth regiment
think it an excellent treatise. 1t APP
pears to be the impression that the
Virginians did about all the fighting
On the Southern side during the war.
TO be a Virginian was to be all that
was good. The record shows that the
North Carolinlans were away up
head"
General Longstreet, according to
Captain Bond, is largely responsible
for the current misrepresentation of
the Southern side Of the story of Get
tysburg, and he tells in detail a Curl
Gus story of the favoritism displayed
all through the war towards every
thing Virginian at the expense of the
soldiers from the other Southern
States-The Sprinfield Republican
(Mass.)
(Capt Bond shows that North Caro-
lima leads in the report given in Col
onel FOX'S paper on the Chances of
Eeing Hit in Battle" OF the troops
losing the most men Mississippi comes
next, and Virginia, does not appear at
all He has suggestive reference also
to the possibility of General LonSstreet
being of Gascon descent. Altogether
his little pamphlet is lively reading
Army and Navy Journal.
General Doubleday, a distinguished
Federal officer, read Bonds book and
said: ut opened my eyes. Your brave
men have been slandered. Captain
Bond gives chapter and verse. 1t is a
fine essay. Roanoke News.
The late General Bradley L. John
son. of Maryland, wrote to Capt.
Bond:A Il thank you for your exhaus-
tive and able historical review of Pet
tigreW or Pickett? = 1t is a
monument of which North Carolinians
for unnumbered generations will be
proud"
although known as Pickett's
charge, General Graham, whom l met
yesterday, informs me that Pickett
himself was not in it. He describes
him as a coarse, brutal fellow and
says he treated him with the greatest
,inhumanity after the battle. whilst
wounded and a prisoner in his hands"
-MOOre'S Civil War"