The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-29

"After the battle of Gettysburg, this
| brigade was part OF the division that
| held Grant in check nearly a whole
/ day at the Wilderness, and at night.
when relieved by Longstreets corps.
/ brought off their prisoners captured
from four corps, that had opposed
/ them during the day; bore well it's
part in every general engagement that
! followed; according to General Lees
reports of all the fighting around Pc
tersburg. with the exception perhaps
| of two or three other brigades). did
more than any other brigade in his
army. and crowned it's career of glory
by it's participation in the fight at
Teams Station, which brought forth
the highest Communications from Lee.
in orders and in IL special letter of
praise to our noble Governors Vance"
General James Fl. Lane, a solid and
meritorious Virginian, commanded a
famous brigade of North Carolinians.
IN 1867. he wrote a short article for
the newspapers in which he rebuked
the two Virginia writer's for their
unfairness. [ make an extract THAI
justly merits consideration. He wrote
concerning his own and General
ScaIes's excellent Brigades:
Had they been disposed to do jus
tice to the troops from other States
they would not have made a scape-
goat of Heth's Division, commanded
by Pettigrew, to excuse Pickett's fail
ure to hold Cemetery Hill" at Get
tysburg, on the 3rd of July, and
would have said something about the
movements of Lanes and ScaIes's
Brigades on the left, in that engage
ment, as these Brigades of Hills
Corps commanded by the gallant
Trimble, after Pender's fall on the
End. fought on the Bird under Long
street, and did not leave the field until
Pickett's Division commenced falling
back"
He added that he had heard General
Lee, General Heth and other Virginia
officers, ''Who had frequent opportu-
mites of knowing. speak of the soldiers
from North Carolina III the highest
terms" Before closing this discus
sion, to be followed by another, l pur
pose, | refer again to the slanderers
generally who have so delighted in
misrepresenting and defaming the
noblest, most faithful of soldiers.
Writing in 1867. when the base calum-
ny was fresh and tlourishing, l wrote
for the Warrenton indicator" as fol-
lows:
'"The splendor of n good deed be-
comes more apparent as it is placed
against the background of a dark
character; so the gallantry of Virgin
ians will appear the more conspicu-
Gus as it is placed in contract with the
cowardice of North Carolinians.-
This seems to have been the principle
upon which Virginia's two candidates
for historic renoWn (POllard and Nc
Cabe) have thought proper to conduct
their historical Investigations and dis
closures. Either Virginia is very for
tunate or unfortunate in the possession
of such writer's. Which is it?"
/ am pleased to see that one of the
most gifted members of the large ana
able faculty of the University of
North Carolina. Prof. Archibald Hen
derson, is attracting deserved atten-
ton in the North. He is a young mar
of distinguished accomplishments, and
writes elegantly, his age being but
twenty-seVen. He is a son of Hon.
William Steele Henderson. of Sails
bury who for many terms was the
member Of the United States Congress
from that District and was no doubt
the ablest Representative North Caro-
lima had in the House for many years.
THE New York Literary Digest" as
able publication as the great city
has. refers to an article that appeared
tin the Charlotte Observer of date of
l27th March. 1904. in which he dis
5cussed so Interestingly the Vital De-
ficiency' in the Literature of the