The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-11
.R1cHAIoND FEN cED. Ia; All FINISHED.
i Fighting. Thus It happened that they we're.
4 thc last TO quit firing and the last troops

fighting Thus It happened that they we're.
tho last to quit firing and.the lnstNtroops
to surrender
Referring to another inscription he
quoted from official statistics to show
that in the Wharf.-The whole3South had kill
ed 74,5A men, and North Carolina's loss
in killed was 1863 Said he. THE dust
Of most Of them lie in Virginia, soil. Sure.
" noble Virgnlans wilfnotE object 10 our
honoring their memory and will not OBJ
ject to our inscribng upon their tomb
what the history records MS facts. He said
there were some Virginia soldiers
buried In North Carolina soil. and, turning
to Governor Montague. Governor Glenn
said: Whenever YOU wish to place a
monument over their dust. we will vel
come you with wide open arms: you may
their honor and glory, and all tho power
Of North Carolina will be exerted to pro-
tect and defend your tablets leave the
monument we to-day unveil on your soil
In your keeping, and pray you to protect
and defend it," AinidstEtlle shouts of the
multitude the two Governors cordially
shook hands on that proposition.
Al the conclusion of Governor Clients
speech. and when the cheering had
ceased. the great throng, led by the
Land. sang "rhc Old North State"
Memorial Ode. q.
Professor Henry Jerome stockam. OF Isa-
leigh, read the following memorial ode. his own
THE LAST ciAnGE At, APPoMATTox.v
fearred OF g haaa;C,; fields before.
| Naked and starved and travel sore, S..
Each man tiger. hunted, Eas
Thoy stood a. bay as brave q Huns,
hs o. ~ an 1d sou,s spenGda
And by ten thousand fronted. ~
|
They'd climbed The trembling walls Of death,
And ret their standard tatteyed, EF
Had charged a. ,he huge''s stirring hlare !.
| From tho dead's rcldoned sulchers, where
! The searching shrapne shattered
They former ,ha, Carolina band
| With Grimes the spartan, Y IN command,
:, And. ~ the word Of Gordon,
they siruci, Win yh,nlng' $ seathins stroke :
| Jhose doomed and desperate men7-and broke
| Atroa5 that Iron Gordon. 81
They turned in cullen. slow retreat
| An, there are laureIs of defeat!--
Tnned for tho chief had spoken;
Aad prayed Inc trump T, d aoor, y blow,
| Gn@ hiatt the Southern stars were low,
!, The Southern bari were broken. ri
some Tins tho exam, impartial years
%.lI ,fll %hn, made then, dead 70 tears
VIZ, D mssys% ha PEI fo 70 ' sssoney guard
\ For cicnvIng blade ana n,anglng shard
/ That. Fa.n them srcng,hlin3 tent and war'
/ 10 drain the drcGs OF anguisli.
! Bat this ages Will PROFOUND, 800
Whit never SPHINX lati love to sound
4 Why IN such fires Of rancor,
The God Of love should find " meet
For Him, with Grant an sledge 70 beat,
/ On Lee thc anvil at such heat,
| Our nations great sheet-auchor.
A Northern Soldier Speaks,
Major George A, Arms of tho unlteo
1, States army. retired, was then nitro
duced and spoke briefly, lie sulq ~ parl
III Is With great pleasure that Ishaye
tic honor Of meeting you here to-day
ano wan, 10 thank you and your mos
worthy and cntcrplising comrade. MILO,
London, Iol The cordial Invitation tIN
hnds me IN your midst and afforns ,'ls
an OPPORTUNITY 10 helpStn honor me yal2l
and heroism OF the soldiers Of Nortl
Carolina. As the owner Of this historiis
and immortal spo,, known llroush II ~