The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-07

Virginia 14,9l4
Georgia 10,97i
Tennessee 6,41C
Louisiana $3.50
Total 3S,724
That is what the Confederate Hand
Book, prepared by brave Louisiana
soldier, Col. Robert Wood. reveals.
do not suppost Col. Henderson knew
of all that.
In this connection it may be proper
to add that North Carolina has been
modest considering her great losses
and sacrifices in the gigantic war. The
editor of the Charlotte Presbyterian
Standard, DR.. McKelway, is a strong
and candid writer, and a Virginian by
birth. education and service. Dis
cussing the recent celebration and
claim at Appomattox he has this, and
it is we'll worth tranScribing here:
but it is the glory of the Old North
State, whatever may have been the
cause for her not having a greater
number of conspicuous leaders, that
she sent to the front more private
soldiers than any other State, and
that out of d military population OF
1850 she furnished $4,000 troops,
robbing the cradle and the grave to
fill her regiments. Moreover. there
were other battlefields of Virginia OH
which her troops did valiant service,
of which nothing is said. Fredericks-
burg and Charlottesville, First and
Second Manassas, Gaines Mill and
Cold Harbor are left out of that in
scription for those who will make
their claims. Four battles are selected
out of a hundred contests. and one Of
them was a defeat, though glorious
one, and another was followed by a
surrender.
con what ground, save that the in
scription is not true to history, should
it be objected that North Carolina
should erect such a monument, and
on what ground could such objection
come from a Virginia comrade whose
memory goes back for forty years."
/ learn that some English writer has
established that North Carolina S
claim as to the Third Day at Get
tysburg is not sustained. How so?
Several prominent natives of this
state, men of high character and ex-
cellent abilities, have testified as to
the correctness of the claim. At least
two Northern writer's who were In
the battle, at the right place to see,
have testified voluntarily as to charge
of the North CarolinianS An English
writer may not know anything of that
charge except what he got from Vir-
ginianS. DR.. McKelway is kind ana
truthful enough to turn on the light
IN InlS Wise.
"It has been established beyond
controversy by the students of the bat
tlefield that while the Virginia troops
went over the wall in front of them,
and thirty-three feet beyond where
General Armistead fell, the North
Carolina troops charged up TO the
wall that was opposite them, leaving
their dead at it's base, on both sides
of it according to some testimony,
nof |, &c 81 cI, -
You'd the first. And her troops suf-
fered more in that charge than any
in the war, perhaps in the whole his
tory of civilized warfare. up to the
assaults on Port Arthur. Her five re-
giments lost almost as many troops as
the fifteen Virginia regiments and in
one company with four officers and
eighty-four men, four officers and
eighty-three men were either killed or
wounded. The inscription does not
say that North Carolina troops were
drawer than Virginia troops
The great map of the battle of Get
tysburg prepared by Northern Gen
eral places North Carolina dead farth-
Ell in Yankee lines than the Virginians
He also considers Chicamauga and
AppomattoX, and gives the points that
fully sustain the North Carolina con-
tention. / make one citation:
'Chickamduga was a Confederate
victory. but Thomass unbroken lines
saved the Federal army from immeas-
urable disaster. and on the testimony
of Federal soldiers within Thomas
lines. the fifty-eighth and sixtieth
North Carolina regiments were farth-
est to the front again
Over a half of the soldiers parolled
at Appomattox were North CAROLYN
ians and they were in full line of bat
tie when the surrender occurred, af-
ter having been engaged in recent bat
tie. l quote again from the Presby-
terrain Standard:
"A North Carolina soldier, Major
General Bryan Grimes, planned the
last fight and commanded it, while
North Carolina troops formed the ma