The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
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A. Y. DockeTy

| able campaign the Wing majority was
reduced from $4,000 to abou z,ooo'
The strain of the campaign, however,
cost Hoke his health, and within a
month after the election he died.
Robert Frederick Hoke was then
seven years Of age. After a prepaid-
tory course in Lincolnton, young
Hoke attended the Kentucky Military
Academy, conducted by graduates OF
West Point. h subject OF our
sketch left the institution before grad
uation, and returned home at the 8
of eventee to take charge Of his
mothers business. He was connected
with the manufacture Of cotton, paper
iron and Of linseed oil until the wal
began in 1861.
Robert Frederick Hoke was "A years
old when he Joined the
Stars, which went out from {
county and which was Company K or
the Bethel Regiment. He was second
lieutenant. In January. 1862, ne pc
came observation-disclosures; in August OF
the same ear he was commissioned as
full colonel. In 1864. for an import
ant achievement in North Carolina,
President Davis telegraphed him his
promotion to majOr-general-the oniy
time a promotion was made in this
manner during the entire war.
There is a whole book in the bril-
liant war record of General Hoke. but
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an enumeration of the important en-
gagements in which he appeared.
Suffice to say that he entered the Con
federate service a. little above the Pc
sition of a private. and he returned
home at the close of the war a major
general. l have beer told by several
old soldiers, high up in a knowledge
Of the wal and it's history, hat there
is no doubt if anything had happened
to General Lee to render him. incapable
tina General Hoke would have sue
ceeded. Lee. General Hoke's parting
words to his soldiers at the close Oh
1.-THE war are fine words-splendid SEN
timent of a brave officer to brave men.
In a later number The Uplift will re-
produce that speech.
I know him as the man, and not a
living soul since his return from the
war has ever seen him wearing a uni
form or sporting a sword. General
Hcke has not made a speech in the
limelight since the war. In the cOun
ellis Of the business organizations to
which he has contributed his wisdom,
he makes clear-cut statements that go
right to the spot as much as any
speech could possibly do. He will st
down with a few friends and upo
request tell you of a wal incident or
about a certain battle or about expert
ences, but in all these he emphasizes
what my soldiers did," leaving him
self out. This is greatness. I have
heard him tell these stories of the war
possibly On a score of occasions al
ways occurred at night, when he a
! nothing else to do. He is a charming
conversationalist, and he tells a story
of a brilliant dash, a bloody struggle.
a glorious battle or sorrowful defeat
, with a clearness, a light and action SO
perfect that you feel the atmosph here
almost. in which the event occurred,a g
General Hoke did his level best dun
ing the war, and in the light ofGcold
observation and judgment forty-fve
years removed it is a record as bril-
liant as the most brilliant. When the
Confederate forces surrendered, n
returned to their wasted farms. he ac-
copied the result as final He quit
fighting Yankees for good, and be-
gan fighting the problems of life, the
difficulties confronting the South and
the obstacles to the development Of
the land which he loves with just as
much ardor as if he were the Con-
federate uniform INCREASINGLY.
It is said that General Hoke has
Or the general organization. He has
been too busy. He has a loving mem
DRY of the boys in gray, but General
Hoke simply had enough Of war, and
at the surrender he was "done for
good
After the war, General Hoke
p1Oughed his war horse some. II.
washed for gold some in the noun
tains Of North Carolina. General
Hoke, measured by the commercial
standard. has been extraordinarily sue
~cessful. The Cranberry Iron MINES
and the road leading from there to
Johnson City, Tenn, became profitable
and valuable properties under MS di-
%rection and administration of their at.
fairs. He was the real head In tn.
building and construction of the
Georgia and Northern railroad, now a
part Of the Seaboard, which runs from.
Monroe to Atlanta.
General Hoke has always taken an
intelligent and conservative interest
in nolitical matters but he has when