The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
To Mark Spot Where Wy
att Fell in 1860.
SOUTH TO PARTICIPATE
Governor of Every Southern State In
vited BY Virginia to the CeIebra-
lion On that Day, Old Dominion
Will UnveiI a Monument On
Battlefield.

The unwilling of the North Carolina
field to mark the spot where Wyatt
fell on June 10th, 1861 will occur on
its anniversary, June 10th, and on
the same day Virginia will unveil a
monument to its Confederate dead
who fell on this field. 1t is planned
TO make of this a mammoth patriotic
celebration. and every Southern Gov
ernor has been invited TO participate
in the exercises. Governor Glenn
and Governor Montague, of Virginia,
will be the principal orators of the
day. and all other Southern chief eX-
ecutiveS will deliver brief addresses.
An elaborate program, which Will
consume the entire day, will be OBJ
served and besides those of the Gov
ernors. there will be appropriate
speeches by many hattle-scarred vet
Grams. and poems, composed for the
occasion, and hymns sung by the
sweetest voices of the Southland Sew
eral military organizations will rep
resented, and music Will be FURNISH
ed by several professional bands.
On the night preceding the unvell-
ing. Virginia will tender a reception
to North Carolina and the South. at
Hampton.
The commission having in charge
the preparation of the inscription to
be placed on the tablet, and the ar
rangement of the program, met IN
Rocky Mount yesterday to settle up
on the inscription, and decide upon
othere details, but their conclusions
have not been announced.
The commission consists of Major
E. ]. Hale. chairman, Capt w. r.
Kyle, Captain John III. Thorpe, Cap
tain w. b. Taylor, and Mr.. r. II.
Kicks.
'rhe act passed by the Legislature.
which provides for the erection of
this tablet. also contains a section for
the placing of tablets at Chickamauga
The act is as follows:
Whereas at the battle of Bethel,
Va, on 10th Of June, eighteen hum
dred and sixty-one. Henry X. Wyatt
a private soldier from North Caro-
lima. was the first Confederate soldier
killed in battle, and at Chickamauga,
North Carolina troops made the far
thest advance both on the 18th and
goth of September, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three: and, whereas there
is no memorial to mark these historic
spots save a pine board tackled to a
telegraph pole at Chickamauga on
which field the positions held by other
troops from our sister Southern States
are nldTkeu NY COSlly 6illu stpPiOPiAe'NO
memorials, now, therefore.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That in honor of so
much valor, tablets. with appropriate
Inscriptions, shall be erected to mark
the farthest advance of North caro-
lima troops at Chickamauga at cost
not exceeding five hundred dollars FOR
said tablets, including all accompa-
nying expenses, and Judge a. q.
Avery, chairman; James NJ. Ray, w.
G.. Toms, Isaac H. Bailey and Henry
A. Chambers arc hereby appointed
suitable Inscriptions and procure ana
supervise the erection and placing the
tablets -
Sec. 2. That for the purpose of
erecting a tablet to mark the spot
where Wyatt fell. Major E. j. Hale,
chairman; Capt. w. e. Kyle, Capt.
John H. Thorpe, Capt. w. B. Taylor
and r. H. Kicks are hereby appoint
cd a special commission to prepare
suitable inscriptions and supervise
the erection and placing of the tablets
to mark the appropriate spot at Beth
ell. Va. at a cost not exceeding TWO
hundred and fifty dollars for said
purpose including all attendant eX-
penses.
Sec. g. Tho above sums are hereby
appropriated for said purpose to pc
paid on the order of the chairman OF
the respective commissions, ana ap-
proved by the Governor.