The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-11

The first number on the program was
music by the choir, 1.-The Guard
Around the Tomb" the second, prayer
by the chaplain, Rev. G.. f. Adams;
third, song by Jane Graham Hughes
Chapter, composed of fifty young
ladies'; fourth, the poem by Miss Eta
Num-, which was well rendered and
received with great applause; fifth.
music by the choir, when the Weary
Seeking Rest" sixth, the address OF
the day by Major Charles Manly Sted-
man. This address was a magnificent
effort, but space permits only a few
words from his eloquent utterance
here.
Major Stedman said among other
things:
This audience has assembled to OBJ
serve with fitting and appropriate
ceremony the birthdays of Robert e.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Both
were SO unrivalled in the splendor of
their marvellous achievements, so
grand in their mental and moral quail
tiles that all citizens of our common
country might we'll commemorate the
birthday of each. And yet to the peo-
pie of the South it seems meet ..nd
proper to make one day the occasion
of the observance of the birthdays of
both, whose names represent :ylory,
and whose deeds have illumined d
cause with a radiance which shall
never die.
THE names of Lee, Jackson and
the Confederate soldier linked togeth-
er with Immortality have ever repre-
sented, throughout the South since
the close of the Civil War, one great
idea. They stand for one principle,
unchanging, unconquerable and inn
perishable,-a supreme sense of
duty. Il
Where are those who went forth
to battle with you, my comrades. apd
for you North Carolinians all? Many
of them sleep upon the fields immor-
talized by their glory, but their deeds
will ever be kept in unfading fresh
ness in your heart, and the names of
the dead heroes who answer not to
roll call today will be preserved by
you as the most sacred and best be-
loved Of all whom North Carolina gar
nered in the treasure house of her
pride and glory. s.
A North Carolina Hero.
'The conduct of a private by the
name of Tillman in the Forty Fourth
North Carolina Regiment had attract
ed the favorable notice of his brigade
commander, and he was, at his re-
quest, attached to the color guard
Tlllman's name was also honorabIy
mentioned in the orders of the day
from brigade headquarters. Soon
thereafter, in front of Petersburg, the
regiment became seriously engaged
with the enemy and suffered heavy
loss. The flag several times fell, as
it's bearers were shot down in quick
.ssgccesaion. Tdllman seized it and
again carried it to the front. 1t was
but an instant, and he, too, fell. AS
one of his comrades stopped to raise
the flag again the dying soldier touch
ed him and in tones made weak by
the approach of death, said: Tell the
General | died with the flag. :
What part North Carolina played
in the greatest drama of modern
times history will ever preserve with
out blemish upon its pages She was
the next to the last State to secede
from the Union. and in February,
1851, she voted against secession 10y
80 900 majority yet with a military
population of 1895, the State of
North Carolina furnished to the Cen
federate army 125,000 men. She
furnished from first to last. one-fifth
of the entire Confederate army and
at the surrender at AppOmattox
Court House, one-half of the mus
kets stacked were from North Caro-
lima. The last charge of the Army of
Northern Virginia under Lee sNras