The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-11
MUSIC AND REFRESHMENTS

all that the great event de-
manded. Not only were the local
folks out-the old veterans
of this county and their daughters
but excursions from various towns
brought large crowds, and more than
three hundred beautiful girls from the
State Normal College graced the oc-
casion.
1t has been forty years since North
Carolinians in large numbers were at
Appomattox. The reception here has
been so cordial that i'm the future the
veterans and their sons will make
pious pflgrimages to this spot where a
permanent memorial marks the signal
devotion of the North Carolina SOL
diers to the lost cause.
Among North Carolinians present at
the exercises were:
Mrs. Mary Grimes Smith. sister of
| the Secretary of State, who unveiled
the memorial; Mrs. Henry A London
Mrs. +. e. Moffitt Secretary OF State
Grimes, Chief Justice Walter Clark,
Associate Justices Hoke and Brown.
Mr.. Dempsie Grimes; Col. Aston
Grimes, sons of the late General Bryan
Grimes; Adjutant General Thomas r.
Robertson; Editor Josephus Daniels,
Col. F. A. Olds, T. H. Haynes. of Win
ston; Superintendent J. S. Mann and
| Clerk 7. NJ. Arlington. of the peniten-
| tiary: Insurance Commissioner Young
| Col. Benehan Cameron; Major General
Julian S. Carr commanding the North
| Carolina veterans; Mr.. Charles +.
| Johnson; Editor Clarence H Poe of
the Progressive Farmer; Dempsey
| Wood, of Lenoir county; Prof Henry
Jerome Stockard.
Capt. Holt. Visits Old Scenes.
Capt. e. j. Holt, of Johnston county.
member of the Appomattox Commits
sion, who has a good eye for topo-
graphy, could easily locate the posi-
! ton of the North Carolina troops of
] forty years ago. He visited the very
place where he stood in the last charge
| forty years ago today, and pointed it
out to friends. He had previously-a
few weeks ago--visited the battlefield
/ i went. he says of the visit made a.
! few weeks ago, "to the place where
General Roberts formed his brigade in
| line of battle the morning Of the 9Th
| of April, and then / had no trouble
4 to mark the course taken by the
| troopers in their last charges and all
/ the movements made by the brigade
! that day. There was the hill down
which we rode with drawn sabres in
a swift charge, then the bottom, and
the bitches, we crossed then the hill
| We mounted and the SPOT where we
captured the four pieces of artillery. 1
marked the location of the battery in
! a thicket of sassafras with a small
heap of stones. later to be marked by
a small granite monument.
81 walked over the same ground
and know that it was the same but
somehow it did not seem like the same
lplace it was forty years ago; then the
shells, grape, and canister and the
smoke and roar of cannon filled the
air-now all is as quiet and still as a
few lean sheep and desolation can
make it.
eve traced out the route and move
ments of Cox's Infantry brigade and
marked the SPOT where he captured
two pieces rof artillery-which was
about two hundred yards to the left
of the battery captured by General
Roberts; we marked the place by
small heap of stones. We had no
trouble to locate the place where his
brigade fired their last volley and
designated the spot for the State
monument. 1t is about two hundred
yards to the right of the public road
in a dense thicket Of spruce pines"
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.