The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-19
THE LAST CHARGE
How Gen. Julie Carr
Routed the Yankees.
How North Carolina Veterans Lined
Up at Chattanooga---victory
Perched on Their
Banner.
Charlotte News. }

For the first time since the war the
veterans who compose Mecklenburg
Camp, Confederate Veterans, were
called out and lined up for battle last
Monday at Chattanooga. The enemy
was composed of one lonely Pullman
official and ANONYMOUSLY fed, and q
battle was avoided, but the Hornets
were left alone in what they contend
ed were their rights.
TO begin at the beginning the spe
cial Pullman car for the North Caro-
lima veterans was decorated before
leaving Raleigh with the Division
streamers, bearing the words, United
Confederate Veterans of North Caro-
lima" When the train which this
sleeper and the other coaches bea~4
ing the North Carolina veterans
reached Chattanooga, the Pullman
Company's official at that place said
that it was against the rules of the
company to allow streamers on the
coaches belonging to them and that
they would have to be taken off this
car Naturally the veterans objected.
The officious official insisted and the
Tar Heels got their blood up. They
told him the streamers had been ON
the car ever since they started and
they intended that they should stay
on. The official said that they must
come off. and that he would take
them off.
1--WE will see,' said General Carr,
| speaking for the North Carolinians.
Then he gave the order for the Meek
| lenburg Camp, whose car adjoined
! the Pullman, several OF the veterans
being in the Pullman, to climb oct
and form a line. With the blood of
! IS tinglng in their veins, the heroes
| of the greatest civil conflict in history
| tumbled out of the car, and lined up
| for action. They were angry at what
| they regarded as an unWarranted
| interference, and the fact that the
man to whom their anger was direct
ed was a Northern man. unsympa-
thetic and out of touch with them and
| their sacred cause, although he may
| have been acting from what he re-
| garded as a sense of duty, did not al
lay their anger in the least.
The official then threatened to have
| the Pullman side-tracked and held.
| General Carr told him that If he did
| so it would be the dearest arrange
ment he ever made. The veterans
learned that the Southern Railway off
Gals syr. paLhi7ed with them and
would help them if needed though 4
| was more than evident from the first
that they were able to take care Of
| themselves.
Several people advised the Pull
man man that it would not be SAFE
for him to attempt to do anything and
he read this in the grim faces about
| him, and gave up the fight 1t is said
he became thoroughly frightened ana
put distance between himself and the
station as rapidly as possible.
All over the veterans crowded back
into their car with one more victory
to add to the laurels already won.
The next day the Chattanooga pa
pers roasted the official severely, an6
complimented the North Caroliniau:
for the stand they had taken.
The offiial tried to smooth the mat
ter over in reply by saying that the
streamers should never have been pu
on, but inasmuch as they had como
all the way from Raleigh on the Cal
he concluded to let them stay on ant
that too he had some friends in thu
car and that because of them h
would not interfere. He might as 'wel
have admitted, though, that fear o
the men he had to deal with was thu
only thing which kept him from car
rymg out his intentions.