The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-05-13

AoIIi ~ - w do tll lflt post
OF duty when the thin lines of
. Lee were broken on 2 April 1865.
. They were in the daily battles on
the retreat to AppomattoX which
has been aptly called the ''funer-
. al march Of the Confedcracy,"
When the surrender came, that
roll call of fame, the Appomattox
Parole list shows that there was
left of Co. d. from Robeson only
Orderly Sergeant A. E. Floyd,
Corporal J.P. .Inman. and Privates
A. N. Prophet, X. Lovett, A. J.
Thompson, and Zach. Clewis. All
the rest had been killed, wounded
or captured. After the battle
and exposures through which this
company had passed during four
years, the wonder is not that so
few, but that any were left.
The next Company the county
sent out was Co. G., oath Regi-
ment, commanded by Capt. Thad-
deus d. Love and a part of Co. F.
IN the same regiment. This last
was a Cumberland county COM
pany but had many members
from over the line in Robson.
This regiment spent the summer
, and fall of 1861 in the Kanawha
valley and other points in West
Virginia under the command
of Robert E. Lee, then a
Brigadier General. The regi-
ment wintered at Petersburg and
. in the spring of 1862 it was on
the Meherrin at Murfreesboro,
N. C.
The Oath N. C. was then plac-
ed in the brigade of Gen. Robert
! Ransom and took part in the ia
nous 7 days fight in front of
| Richmond, suffering heavily, es-
: pecially at Malvern Hill l July.
! In these battles, the Confeder-
: ates were the assaulting parties
throughout and though we de.
feated Mcclellan and drove him
: in headlong retreat the truth is
/ that in unthinking and otter
2 useless gallantry we lost nearly
= SO per cent more men than the
e enemy. We thus needlessly sac
Y rificed hundreds of our very best
r and bravest young men whom
the South needed sadly before
n the long war was over.
: But soon the oath, with ouI
t Robson county boys, were on tn,
S march again. When August will
:. its trailing vines passed out tn,
c gates of summer" we had cross
S ed the Potomac and, soon recross
S ing it, after a march of 80 mile
e within "a hours, were part of tn
S investing force at Harper's Fer
l. ry. | say I'VE" because at tha
IS time | was adjutant of the 35tI
v Regiment, in the same Brigade
7. the Regiment being commando
:, by Colonel. later Senator, Matt
Is w. Ransom, and thus had tn
< honor of being the immediat
le comrade Of some of your brav
IS Robson county boys. Early l
September the Federals surren
;, dered Harper sFerry with IL, 90
= men. Leaving Hills Light Divis
h ion to parole the prisoners W
III put out for Sharpsburg, agai
ID fording the Potomac, and Wer
lie in that bloody and critical batt]
as on the 18th. | have already tol
N you how Hills division came u
D. from Harper's Ferry just in tim
ir to save the day. Early in tn
e morning Ransom's Brigade wa
ly on our extreme right, whel
lie Hills Division came in the afte
W noon, but our lines being broke
Id over on the left about 9 a. m. W
I'd were double quicked and throw
k into the gap at the 'WestWoods
e. where Hoods brave Texans hs
IL been decimated and driven ou
IL We struck them just as the bll
C.. flood was rolling in like the w
IS ters through the break in a M
dam. We drove them back, ar
ne repulsing charge after charge,
he your Robson county men knoN
r. we held the line all day. Ne:
oi- day we defantly gave the enen
y, challenge to come on and tn
ty night recrossed the river in
m Virginia without loss of a priso
its er or so much as a wagon whee
nd We fingered long in the beaut
he full Valley of Virginia aroul
le- Winchester, but 13 December v
lie met the Burnsides then in col
he mand Of the Federal army
he Fredericksburg and gave him
lr- crushing defeat. Our Brigade,
vn which was the "a N. C. with t
zee Robson county men, were behil
he the stone wall at the foot
of Marye's Heights and drove ba'
nd 7 successive lines of battle. T
aw most desperate of these assau
IN was made by the famous Iri
ne Brigade under Gen. Thorn
he Francis Meagher. They came
ex- in splendid style, with their gre
ng flag of Erin with the sunburst
iv- it-some of them got within
At few feet of our line, but not O
1T" passed it except as prison
m Old North Carolina and Robes
of county were holding the line tt
ing day.
'ys. In January 1868, our Brigs
,ur- came back to North Carroll
1ad During that year the Brigs
my Continued on Second page.
ed.
the Catarrh Cannot ne Curea
nts With local applications, as they can
oh reach the seat OF the QlSeaSe. CaLa