Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-03-15

Died April ii, 1902,
Erected A. D., 1906"
North Side:-C Commander OF Hamp-
ton Legion, Lieut. Gen. c., s. A. Trevi-
ian, Seven Pines. Burgess Mill, First
Manassas, Gettysburg.
The names refer TO the battles In
which Gen. Hampton took prominent
part.
The Columbia Is. O. State OF Nov.
21st, said:
1T was South Carolina's greatest
day since the Reconstruction. There
came rom every county men and
women who love their state, who cherish
lts love, Its traditions and its history.
ana In 30 doing rejoice that Wade
Hampton Is reincarnated I'm royal
bronze, "the butternut-jeans" OF the
dear, dead Confederacy. The orb OF
the South was veiled I'm a mist OF tears
tears fol the nation that is dead. But
as the day wore on the trains poured
their burden OF humanity into Colum-
bla, the veil was lifted. the sun shown
IN splenior and verified prophecy. IL
IL fact beyond cavll that on no public
occasion with which Wade Hampton's
namo has been linked has there beeen
foul weather. No matter how threaten
ing beforehand, the skies always cleared
IN benediction upon this great Caro-
linian.
champion loved his men. In n let
ter 10 Gen. Lee he gives the private
soldier all the credit: 1T gives me the
plea2ing but sad satisfasuon OF navinQ
the only tribute In my power TO the
noble and brave men who clunQ 10
their cause and their colors 10 the last.
The men who thus nobly discharged
the highest duties OF patriots and sold
lers deserved the thanks, not only OF
their officers, but OF every hearted
Southenor.'
"The country for which they fought
Is obliterated from the map OF the
world. The nationality they sought TO
established is extinct, and the govern
ment which should have rewarded
them is like their hopes-dead. 1t is
therefore eminently due them that their
heroic deeds and their sufferlngs and
their sacrifices should be recorded. 80
that In after years their children may
not be ashamed 10 claim their descent
from men who are now denounced as
rebels.
"Let the truth. the whole truth and
nothing but the truth be placed upon
record and we may then confidently
commit our cause 20 the impartial
judgment of posterity.
ain these times when the people OF
South Carolina are doing honor TO
Wade Hampton, It may be pleasant 70
read again these words OF appreciation
from Jefferson Davis, President OF the
Confederate States OF America.
"Patnotic enthusiasm could present
no grander picture than that OF Con.
Wade Hampton, fit representative
man OF the much ridiculed but living
and beloved chivalry of the South,
who, while looking through his glass
during cavalry battle near Peters
burg, saw his son, Preston, who was
possessed OF great personal beauty,
much mind and keen wit, who had Just
reached his 21st year, fall dead on the
field and his brother, Wade, stoop over
him and fell across his beautiful young
brothers body. The bereaved father
thought them both slain and un-
sheathed his sword, rode straight, not
to receive their dying words, but for
the hardest part OF the battle, and
fought with all his might In hand to
hand encounter, and himself came out
probably the only division cammand-
er In the world to who a like incident
has occurred-with a deep sabeY cut
which accentuates, rather than mars
the noble cantour of his face"