The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-08
WAKE SURVIVORS
Of CONFEDERACY
Wake County Furnished
3.115 Soldiers to the
Confederacy.
MANY HAVE DIED
Mir. A. 8. Stronach Writes a Brief
History of The Wake Camp
of C~onfederates ard a List OF
the Remainder OF Camp.

II III
tho Flftnr.- Twenty Years ago
''ar GGufa5arate snrviv6rs of
..,,,fy If tina var Lnttyecn the
r.44rIfa states and United
..- nr America was formed bv the
...l.u as President Thomas $.
..... yice-uresidcnts Walter Clark
{, ctrnnacb. rharlain Pnv T.
...I... surgeon Dr =. r Hines as
...t snrs4on Dr = Rurke Hav-
.,t. secretary John & German:
commander G y Rand. lieutenant
Commanders f.. j Hardin. T. f..
....s and c D.. Tpchurch. adiutant
X Dicks: scrptaut-mator r. f..
UH.Eer.uX.
HIi. roll Of organization showed
3D.. names. OF this number "a, more
...I4. oue-fourth. have ''crossed oyer
... river" In 1887 the name was
...ngri to JuniuS Daniel camp of
Confederate Veterans and in 1896
..uge to /. OBJ. Branch camp Of
Confederate Veterans. In 1895 the
...s.t4 Joined as camp 4l5 the United
..~.. frIrrate Veterans Association. or
.,ulzed in 1889.
Ia 1901, under a call made by the
sitter. the Wake County Confederate
Survivors, Association was again re-
.-:tnized. This association requires
... Payment Of dues as in the L. c. V.
...stp~ apt. J j. Thomas was elect
... President. and y. w. West secre-
...r.
Since the original Wake County
s4INivors' Association became Il camp
has had AS man w. G..
stomach b. T.. Park. DR.. L. E. Hines,
.ul since 1897, a. Il. Stronach. j. G..
EIricong has been adiutant of the
.,.uIp since 1897.
Wake county furnished to the Con-
f.trrate army in raised
.fII credited to the countv (3.1l5)
r.rrp thousand one hundred and ff-
teen troops of all arms.
From the first organization of the
Veterans of Wake county
..ril 1856 tn Nav 10 1905. there
..t. haan anrollad Co0) five hundred
..l3es or this nunbe-~ there has been
ported to May 10. 1905. as dead one
pdr ana forty 14G) the same
Irnuortion of deaths as shown in the
inst ,oII Takino the proportion as
.Il.n i'm the Confederate Hand Book
I0 roDv of hich should be in every
school library i'll the South) OF losses
-ustained by the Confederate army
Ilom DEATH. disease INC wounds as
uue-thfrd G-3) would make Wake
county furnished BIS troops, loss by
death. disease and wounds one-third.
ur 1.03S. leaving at end of war, 2,o77.
Death rate as shown by Wake county
.,curds since 1856. 81 per cent. Deaf
rate as estimated from April, 1863,
1o April. 1886, Is per cent, making a
..ath rate of AZ per cent. to date,
would show still living in Wake coun-
~. LOS Confederate Veterans. Car
..fng this further in the same p
.tun in 1926 twenty years more. the
.Yryfynrs of the C0nfederate army in
Wake county will have dwindled to >
s.r cent, between 80 and 60 men.
These proportions. taking the State,
would show North Carolina furnish
125.0O0 troops. losses from disease.
death and Wounds one-third. or 41,333.
leaving in April. 1865. S6,667. Death
I@te as estimated to date would leave
Still living. 4S,527 men who served in
~.rue branch of the Confederate ser
uI 5000. it is possible that there
will be living a handful of $500. Ther-
ar. i'm the pension roll of this State
~ .t6 men. This would show about one
FL. every five Confederate Veterans a
r-.sfnncr
Wake comfy has 152 men ON nen-
Do'N