The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-30
VIRGINIA SOLDIER
AND GEN. HAMPTON
VENERABLE SOLDIER HONORS
MEMORY OF GREAT CHIEFTAIN
Beautiful Inscriptions on the Confed-
crate Monument Admired by the
Soldier of Blue and Gray.
Columbia State.

Columbia State.
Yesterday afternoon fine looking
gentleman, with gray hair but stall
wart figure and the appearance of
youthful vigor, stood for q full half
hour gazing upon the equestrian sta
tue Of Gen. Wade Hampton on the
Capitol green. He walked around the
handsome monument time and again
and it was evident that his gaze was
not that of an ordinary park pedes-
trian or curious onlooker.
The man who spent the half hour
in silent communion with the great
Confederate cavalry leader, in bronze,
was Maj. Charles Waite Of Culpc
per. Va, a man who knew Wade
Hampton in the GO 0's--fought with
him in Virginia--was with him in
the battle Of Manassas-and knew
him intimately for years after tho
war when he represented South Car
olina in the United States senate
and he knew him, as all men knew
him, as the peer Of any man The
South ever produced.
ooh, but it did me good-brought
back memories Of the past-to again
look upon the features of that grand
man." said Maj. Waite. champion
was a great man and the boys who
wore the gray loved him. He was
great general, and a great and grand
man in every way.'
Maj. Waite walked away from the
Hampton statue and stopped Mt the
Confederate monument in front Of
the state capitol. Another man with
gray hair was there. The two walk
cd around the base of the monument
and read with great care and extreme
interest in inscriptions on the four
sides. With one acclaim the two men
pronounced the inscriptions the most
beautiful they had ever seen carved
upon stone. Together they gave
parting look at the monument and
started to walk away.
"No finer English was ever con-
tanned in the writings Of any man,
declared tho second man, "and I
propose to have thosc inscriptions
copied and printed in papers back
home.' And this man, too, saw duty
in the four years war between the
states, but on the other side. He was
from the bleak New England shores
and fought bravcly against men
whose memory this monument was
erected to pcrpctuatc. There was no
bitterness in his tone and the evi-
dent respect with which he look
ed upon the monument erected by
South Carolina women and his TO-
marks Of appreciation Of the bcauti-
full sentences that appear upon those
marble sides might have marked him
as Il veteran Of the "I.ost Causc.'
Mai. Waite himself declared that
he had never before read such beau
tiful sentences. and added: "T want
those inscriptions printed in my
home papers. They will bring tears
to the eyes of many Of the 'boys'
back III Virginia. and can but be APP
preciatcd by all who read them.'
Maj. Waite was member Of the
Ninth Virginia cavalry. Tie was
with Gen. NJ. c. Butler when he lost
his lee.
The Inscriptions.
For the benefit Of the diStin"nSh-
ell visitors. and others who may wish
to place these inscriptions in their
scrap books there is printed below
those from the north and south sides
OF the monuments:
North Side.
This Monument
PcrpetuatcS the Memory
Of Those Who,
True to the Instincts Of their Birth.
N..I H. P.-1