Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-04-12
Tar Heels and Virginians Hold a Love
Feast on Field of Battle
CAROLINA MEMORIAL UNVEILED
Three Thousand Persons, Over Three
Hundred of Them From North Caro-
lima, Attend the Exercises Upon the
Old Battlefield of Appomattox Court
House - Governor Montague En-
Enthusiastically Welcomes the Tar
Heel Visitors.

HCSI vISIlOIS.
Lynchburg, Va, Special.-The cole
bration of the Appomattox anniversary
and the dedication of North Cardinals
memorial to her gallant sons, who cut
SO great a figure there, was in every
respect admirable, in conception and
in execution. Genial as was the
weather with all it's spring softness
it was not more genial than
the welcome given by glorl-
Gus old Virginia to our Governor
and the veterans and the guests. from
the Old North State. Nothing marred
the symmetry of the affair, and it
was a love feast of Virginians and
North Carolinians. Governor Glenn
and Governor Montague met here in
the morning and at once established
the entente rordiale and every me
OF the visitors and visited followed
this example. Governor Montague
made a charming impression on the
North Carolinians, and as for Governor
Glenn every Virginian who met him
sings his praise. All the speeches Of
the day were struck upon a high and
clear note, full of devotion to both
States, n yet above all q dep and
enduring loyalty to their country.
Vlrginia's daughters, in q most peauti-
full way, manifested their sympathy
with the occasion and what it celebrat.
ed. Mrs. Garland Jones II MSs. K.
B. Hall, both of Raleigh, are the only
ladies who came over with the Cover
nor's party.
They were met here by a notable
assemblage representing Virginia
Daughters of the ~Confederacy, of
which they are SO prominent members
at home. The Virginia Daughters
were made guests on the Governors
Pullman and were Mrs. A. F. Ander-
son, Mrs. Benjamin Nowling, Miss
Mollie ]. Early, a niece of General Jul
bal Early, Mrs. Herbert Watts, Mrs.
Francis, Miss Lucy Langhorne, Mrs.
James T. Carter. Mrs. Kirkwood Otey,
who is the president of the Lynch
burg Ladies' Memorial Association,
Mrs. Arthur l.. Powell, Miss Katherine
Horseley. and Mrs. Hettie Bowley.
These ladies are members of both
Kirkwood Otey and Old Dominion
Chapters, United Daughters of the
C~onfederacy.
1t was 1890 when the band crashed
into Dixie" and after a burst of
cheering the exercises began, the wait
being rather tiresome and the sunshine
hot amid close set trees. Every inch of
space within hearing was filled. Chair
man Henry A. London, as master of
ceremonies, announced the opening
prayer by Chaplain James A. Weston,
major of the late Thirty-third Regi-
ment, saying that Mr.. Weston, forty
years ago, Was a faithful soldier in an
earthly war, but ever since has been a
faithful soldier of the cross. Chaplain
Weston's prayer was for blessing and
peace for all parts of Dull common coun-
try, for love of union of these States
and readiness and willingness to devote
our highest energies to the mainten-
ance of our union; for blessings upon
every Confederate grave. He said most
touchingly: 1--WE commend to thee, O
God, these survivors of our most wor-
thy cause"
Chairman London, in a few admir-
ably phrased sentences, referred to the
memorial which marks the closing
scenes of the C%onfederacy, saying that
the veterans of the Stars and Bars had
endured four years of suffering and
privatians which marked life in that
army, had been brave always, constant
always, self-forgetting and exhibiting
the highest type of patriotism; that on
this last day they We're found in battle
array as if on dress parade and charg-
ed as enthusiastically, with the old
rebel yell, as they had done when they
fought at Manassas almost four years
before. He told of how General Bryan
Grimes had with his troops, mainly
North Carolinians. ome were Virgin
ians, had a clear road to Lynchburg,
and so notified Gen. Lee; hat Gen.
Lee had to send three messages to Gen.
Grimes to withdraw before that gallant
soldier did SO. Asthe Confederates with
drew the enemy rushed forward, when
CoXe's brigade charged up this hill and
at this very spot fired the last volley.
There is no disparagement of the BRAY
cry or the endurance of any Confeder-
ate soldier, but with the fortune of war
that North Carolina should be in a po-
sition to do things that were done here,
and it has SO come about that Grimes
planned the last fight; that last Fed
eral battery was captured on yonder
hill by Roberts brigade; that last skir-
mish was fought on yonder side of old
Lynchburg road by the Fourteenth and
Twenty-fourth North Carolina Regi-
ments, or rather their fragments, and
the last charge made and the last vol
ley fired by the organized infantry of
Coxe's brigade. North Carolina is proud
of these things, but does not boast of
them, as her sons only did their duty.
Governor Montague made a splendid
address and was followed by Governor
Glenn, whose Grafton was a master
piece of imprisoned %eloquence.
In closing. he told about what hap
pened at Appomattox and what North
Carolinans did there. His imprisoned
words and forceful gestures putting
the whole power of that scene on that
awful day forty years ago before his
hearers like a painting on a wall. bold
and vivid in every particular. His eu-
logy of that superb soldier, Gen. Bryan
Grimes, was splendid, and his tribute
to the gallant Generals Coke and Rob-
erts brought general applause, as he
turned to the latter, who sat upon the
stage, the youngest Confederate bri-
gadier. He told how General Lee az