The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
REVOLUTIONARY HEROES.
Preparations Being Made for Erection
Of Monuments TO Generals Nash and
Davidson at Guilford Battle Ground
Col A NJ. WaddcH to Deliver All
dress at dwelling OF Monument to
General Nash.

Colonel A N. Waddell has accepted
Guilford Battle Grounds. on the itn
Of July, when the monument erected TO
General Francis Nash. of Revolution
airy fame, will be unvailed. Cafonel
wadden was invited to make the ad-
dress by Major Joseph NJ. Morehead,
president Of the Guilford Battle
Grounds Association.
Two monuments r to be erected at
Guilford Battle Grounds, one TO Cen
eral Davidson and the other to Cen
eral Nash. The monuments are TO
cost $500 each, that noun having been
appropriated by Congress. They are
to be of granite n in the form Of
ar arch. The arches will be 80 feet in
height and Is feet wide and the princi-
pal roadway leading through the Bat
tie Grounds will pass through the
arches. Captain r. p. Johnson, chief
of the United St.V.es Engineers Corps,
with headquarters in this city, has
charge of the Location of the sites and
the erection Of tie monuments and he
was in Greensboro during Inc past
week in regard to the location of the
monuments.
General Francis Nash lived at Hills
boro, n. c., and entered the Revolu-
tionary army as a lieutenant colonel
IN the First North Carolina Regiment.
He rose to the rank of Brigadier Gen
eral and was in command Of the North
Carolina troops at the Battle of Ger
mantown, which was fought on March
4th, 17T. He was killed in this battle.
His remains are inferred in Minnonite
cemetery, at Germantown, Pennsylva-
ria. A small shaft marks the grave.
Colonel A. NJ. Waddeu is a great-grand-
son Of General Nash.
The appropriation for the monuments
of Generals Nash and Davidson was
n AIDE several years ago and was passed
chiefly through the efforts of Hon. W.
w. Kitchin, member of congress from
the Fifth district. After the appropria-
ton was made there was considerable
dispute as to where the monuments
should be located. Raleigh made IN
effort to get the monument to General
Nash and Charlotte the one to General
Davidson. After considering the mat
ter, it was decided that Guilford Court
House Battle Grounds vas the proper
place for the monuments, for here was
fought THE last battle of any conse-
Guence Of the Revolution on March Is,
1881.
The erection of the two magnificent
granite arches will add greatly to
the beauty of the grounds. Guilford
Battle Grounds is a beautiful place
naturally and the Improvements made
in the last few years have added great
ly to the beauty of the grounds. Guilford
Battle Grounds is located six miles west
OF Greensboro. The Battle Grounds
embrace between fifty and a hundred
acres and a large portion of it is COW
cred With a magnificent oak forest.
Until a few years ago this historic place
was almost forgotten, but thanks t.
Major Joseph M. Morehead INT Others
it is now owned by the GuiIford Battle
Ground Association, and there are now
a number of handsome monuments
erected on different parts Of the field.
Major Morehead is never SO happy as
when he sees some way of identifying
the Battle Grounds. It is believed that
it will be only a matter of time before
the National government will take
charge ef this Battle Ground and i'm
prove it as has been done to Chicamau-
ga, Tennessee and at Gettysburg.