Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-11
THE MONUM EMIT.

Again at Guilford Court House IL
was the united valor of Virgnians and
Carolinians that made necessary the
surrender OF CORVALLIS at Yorktown
In the war Of 1912. when the Vir,
slnia peninsula was in danger, we hur
ried Major General Thomas Brown,
OF Baden, the hero Of IIliZabcthtown
IT, your defense at Norfolk. His diyi;
| sion was composed OF the brigades ioi
| General Thomas Davis. of Fayetteville.
| and General James r. Dickinson, OF
MurirCesboro.
I'VE came to Bethel 500 strong
the flower Of Carolina chivalry Eager
for battle and hungry for glory were
| the heroes. we sent you. Heroes bear
ing illustrious names III their native
land-namcs to which added honors
| came. Commanding the regiment was
Col Daniel Harvey Hill, the hero OF
Chcpultcpcc. He had been taught the
art of war in tho National Military
Academy. He had also been taught
there the admitted right of State
TO secedc. at West Point he was o
leader in the class composed of such
distinguished generals as Iongstrcct,
a. p. Stewart, G. w. Smith, r. Fl. An.
dcrson anu Van Dorm, Of tho Confed.
l.
Sikes, Doubleday. Stone and Reynolds
of tho Federal army. Hc found fame
| In the waryWith Mexico and was one
| Of tho SIX officers twice brcvettcd for
lmeritorious service upon the field OF
battle and was awarded by his native
State n sword of honor for his valor.
lie was in command of the North Caro-,
| lima camp of instruction and when II
appeared that battle was imminent
he was allowed to form tho First NORTH
| Carolina volunteer regiment With
10000 men TO select from he chose 81
regiment whose personnel has moi
| becn surpassed In military history,
The officers of the various companies
were men of prominence IN the State
| and the rank and file were men of
character. worth and social position-
leaders in their respective communi-
tiles.
Her Greatest Soldier.
/ "The commander of the Bethel regi..
ment, Col. D., Fl. Hill. in nv Judgment
lyas the greatest soldier furnished to
the Confcdcracy by the Old North
State. AS Il fighter he never had a
superior. In the first year of the war
I when Lee commanded the grandest
army that ever trod hemisphere,
( with Jackson as his right hand and
Hill as his left. he knew no disaster.
Z He was inyinciblc. Jackson was the
genins Of war and Hill man upon
/, whom tho God of battles smiled. Jack
son, the .Stonewall.' and the daring
4 leader of an ever victorious army, Hill
was the lion-hearted and iron-handed
hero whose blood-stained legions form
| ed the ironsideS of that immortal band,
the Army of Northern Virginia!
| 81 think 1t can he said that Hills
ldivlsion in the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia was never defeated. AT South
Mountain the whole world wondered
when Hill. with four thousand men.
held back for a whole day thirty thou
sand of McClelland's magnificent
Troops. He Was transferred to the
Army of the West and largely contrib
tated to the victory. at Chicamauga
Had he been in command, the Union
army would have been destroyed. Had
lie commanded the Army of the Ten
nessee there would have been no Sher-
mans march to the sea.
"Virginians and, North Carolinians,
this is hallowed scene-the two
great sisters with entwined arms pay
ing tribute to their dead, mngllng
their tears at joint shrine. 9
1--we Joined hands with you here in
1861 and when the crimson tide of war
rolled highest we we're with you on
The crest OF The wave; when tho hrid
| hell Of death and defeat glared upon
;oa we were there. We charged with