The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-30

table and unconquerable myths Of
knightly days; they had seen the rout
of Grants army at Shiloh stayed by
the single ball that had, at the nod OF
rate, nut out the glowing light of Al
bert Sidney Johnston's career; they
nad seen another bail, fired by the
Imp of the Perverse, at Chancellors-
Vile by Confederate soldiers. lay low
the mighty Jackson, the plain school
tceaher soldier who prayed like a par
son and commanded victories like q
Ccd; they had seen "Marse Robert
changed from a youngish, blackhaired
cavalier into a sober-eyed, grey-bear-
ed man, manipulate the Scanty forces
at hand so that they seemed TO the
Union generals to be host ten times
their real number; had seen him stand
and crush his enemies in pitched bat
ties that shook the world and, then,
q wizard in strategy, fall back only to
advance again to sudden victory.
Gen. Carr wildly described the bat
ties of Gettysburg, the wilderness and
the last stand at AppomattoX.
OF Edgecombe county he spoke in
part as follows:
at must be a happy fact for the
people of. this patriotic country to
remember that she gave 10 the Con-
federate army as many men as she had
voters. That is the test in North Caro-
lima and what a test it isl Old men
can vote and do so intelligently. But
they may not all fight-as many Of
them did in the War Between the
States. Where are the ranks filled ex-
cept from those too young to cast
ballot? The boys! All, there is the
pity of Il war. Old men, with their
short lease left of life, may die as hard
but less pitifully. Yet you sent your
boys and they bore themselves like
men, You had your companies in the
junior reserves that organization new
[" the travail of nations; ana you hdu
them scattered throughout the regi-
n. ents OF men---the fun-loving, pink
checked beardless boys, contending
with the grizzled death. Their moth
ers sent them out, the leaVings of the
home. And they went and came back
men in year, forced in age by deS-
perate war, cheated of their youth;
or else, with a smile upon their lips
with eyes wide to the strange havoc
of battle, they died on unknown
fields! Desperate indeed was the bank
rupt South when she pawned the as
set of her boys. and, yet even today
when men are boys till thirty the mar
Of fifty-five who is not an ex-Confed-
cIdte casts about for an apology Tor
the fact, Such was the spirit IF the
South, more particularly of North
Carolina, particularly of Edgecolhbe
county
No peaople were more representa-
tive of the South than you.
You furnished the first martyr to
the cause in Henry Wyatt; the last
gallant figure stalking across the
bloody stage of war in General Cox.
Your men fought in almost every
battle of the war. They were at Get
tysburg in the tenth, thirteenth,
thirtieth, forty-third regiments. At
Charlottesville in the second, the
thirteenth, the thirtieth and the thirty
third. At Sharpsburg, in the second,
thirtieth. They fought, too, at the
slaughter of Grant at Cold Harbor, at
bloody Malvern Hill, at williamsburg,
at magnificent Fredericksburg, at
Kelly's Ford, at South Mountain,
Lees Farm, Warrenton Springs,
Frazier's Farm, the Wilderness, at
Cedar Run. New Bern, the seige of
Petersburg. Ream's Station and many
others.
What a list of struggles for men
who fought, some of them at Bethel
under an enlistment of a few short
months
From your county came Gen. w. G..
Eewis-second lieutenant in the Bethel
regiment, major and colonel of the
forty-third Regiment, brigadier gen
eral at the age of twenty-nine-the
last officer of general rank TO be
wounded in the struggle.
No Drawer, kindlier man or more
dashing soldier ever lived than Gen
eral Lewis. Lee loved and admired
him, and despite his youth considered
him one of the best brigadiers in the
service.
You gave, too, to the Confederacy
that good. strong man, Gen. William
Dorsey Fender who. resigning at the
outbreak of the war captaincy II
the United States artillery, threw hi: