The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-07

soldier that his state g4te 10 th. sret.
war when the South against tire.
u.sHt"us odd than f9lr 90 one
I-*a0 struggling 80 ye-y h~rslaa8sv f8s
Independence. and sgaiu~t the north.
erH FaHdalic horaes that came aoan
ito devour and - dv.uetat- Their.
have been 50 many -tup-u4uus blum
llers perFetrat.d, and ~uca manifold
and ineNcu@able ignorance exhibit.
Ia8 through the years from th. Get
tEshLrs battle untu even uoW Is tie
~itraaucers ana enemies II \u-in Cara-
lima, That u X a fortunate circum-
stane" that N- have such "a thorough
iy competent witness as General Trim
Die Is - tell what h. knows IF the
igreat battle, and especially II the third
day conflict at Gettysburg ON tu.
I5th Of October. lN95-nearly thirty
one years ago-he wrotr FOR "Due
Living and our Dead, Il North Caro-
lima war publication. AZ. Raleigh. 4
most Interesting and important com
mAHIc&tlon. ming seven pages. headed
\ofth C"arolinlans AT Gettysburg. =
He showed up the absolute faisity. uT
the repeated Virginia game. that pick
EFT S DIVISION was about destroyed on
the third day Of July. because not
supported by the North Carolina and
other troops. Pollard ana his gang
90 sianderers had the North Carolin-
ians on a most disgraceful u be
cause they could not stand the FIRE
Of the enemy. and left the Eirginians
to be swept away. Pickett himself
twas not III the charge as we'll informed
men know. This lie against North
Carolina has run a long course. Only
within a year or two Harper's Well
known children's popular magazine.
st. Nicholas" had an account OF the
Pickett charge. written. / suppose. by
q Nirginian. in which the Nirglnians
We're ~Splendidly glorified. and the poor
COWardly North CaroiinianS We're spit
upon and denounced. 1t was stated
that they ingloriously fled not being
able to stand up to their work under
fire as did the Nirginians. The ex-
PLANTATION given was that il was the
NTginian nature to be brave for they
were made of the blue-blood kind.
While the diSgraced North C~arolinianS
We're made Of common dirt" No
lying has ever been more disgracefully
foul than that. one brigade, Petit
CREWS, lost nearly as many men at
Gettysburg. as Pickctt'S entire division
lost. The 10th Mort Carolina lost
more than anv of the 5000 regiments
of the war and in all the battles. with
possibly one Northern exception. But
let me come to what General Trimble,
la very gallant Marylander, writes more
than twelve years after the battle. /
quote from him:
n ccoun Of the three days fight
ing at that noted town has yet been
given, that is, not full of errors Of
fact. and errors Of inference, land a
truthful relation OF the occurrences of
these days has yet to be given. The
reason why these mistakes have been
mad is, that no careful study of the
subject, with documentary and other
evidences at hand, has as yet been
made by a competent writer. Those
who have treated the subject, have
been eye witnesses of but a part of
the lines, near six miles in circuit, and
hence, to make up a full relation of
the whole, must adopt the haSty and
erroneous accounts Of others, or even
call in the aid of their own magma
ton to fill up and embellish the pic
ture.''
1t is time this correction was made,
ignorance and faIsehood should
cease TO malign and miSrepresent
North Carolina. General Trimble
S far as relates to the good con-
duct Of North Carolina troops from
the beginning to the close of the war,
[ think their u~npretending courage in
action; their patient submission to the
p~rivations of the camp and the march;
their almost child-like dGcility and ac-
ceptance of discipline everywhere; and
when circumstances needed it. their
daring valor, are now recognized and
highly appreciated by all
Nirginians of a particular stripe
must be omitted. Gross injustice is
still lone to our own State. He says:
y officer who commanded North
Carolina troops has ever, that | know
OF. complained of their behavior.
AT the risk of being tiresome, |
propose to make a brief statement Of
what passed under my own eye dur
ing the third days fight on the right
OF our army
He commanded them, and knows
whereof he afirms. General ID. II.
Hill. General A. f.. Hill. General a
H. Lane, General H. Heth, General
Hampton, of other States. gave North
very high praise. When Mr.
Wallace, a valuable lawyer, Of peters
burg, Va, asked General Ambrose
Hill what troops he would rather com
This surprised Mr.. Wallace as both
General Hill and himself We're Viz
ginians. This led him to ask: Why
this preference? Genera Hill replied.
North CarOlinians are as brave as
any other soldiers, and they are more
submissive to authority. Ihat makes
them better soldiers" This confirms
what General Trimble said Of them
above as to their fine bearing. Read
it again. | recall that Senator Vance
old me that about 1872. 1 think it
was. he met Gen. Wade Hampton,
of South Carolina, at Charlotte, ana
said to him-"Nance. | have an
tina the best soldiers |
saw in the war were North Carolin-
General d. II. Hill. a native too
of South Carolina, held the same opln-
| shall not attempt to follow
Genera Trimble's interesting article.
gives an account Of the topogra-
phy. | now copy his exact language:
General Pickett'S line was formed
about one hundr yards from and
west of the Emmettsburg road at
that point occupied by southern troops
the day previous. That part OF the
road in Pettigrew's front was occupied
the Federal troops. and not over
one hundred yards from the Federal
line on the crest of Cemetery Ridge.
From the preceding it can be under
that Pickett started in his charge
from the Emmettsburg road, and Pet
tigrew and Trimble started from the
top of Cemetery Ridge. The former.
about three-fourthe of a mile. the
latter one mile and a quarter from
I 1a ~ li14ac