The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-07-21
so DIFFEREN FROM HEPBURN.

LII SLI1hluS COnIldSL " 0OAo1OA
Hepburn, of Idaho, Senator Dixon, of
Montana, lauds the valor of the North
Carolina soldier. Senator Dixon
spoke as follows in the Senate on
Tuesday:
"I am a Southerner born. My
mothers people served in the Con-
federate army, while my fathers kins-
men, some of them, served in the
army for the preservation of the
Union. 1 think, without a feeling OF
egotism, I may say that l can some
times feel that 1 can look on the
period of the Civil War with as broad
catholic spirit as any patriotic
American can do. Personally l have
only the greatest feeling of tribute,
feeling of admiration for the heroic
men who laid down their lives for
the lost cause of the Confederacy. /
doubt whether in all history there is
any mere superb example of devotion
to what they believed to be princ1-
pie than that which inspired the peo-
pie of the South from 81 to '65. At
the same time the principle for which
they cOntended was eternally wrong.
81 remember two years ago visiting
| the battlefield of Gettysburg in com
pany with Senators Cummins, OF
Iowa, and Brown, of Nebraska. l re-
member when we reached the point
on Cemetery Ridge where Pickett's
charge broke through the Union lines
at one place, told the Senator from
Iowa the story of the 26th North
Carolina Regiment that was recruited
in my own country and in which
charge some of my own kinsmen laid
down their lives. 1t was with feel
| ing Of pride that I told him the story
of the record of the 26th North Caro-
lima Infantry which held the record
of both armies, Federal and Confed-
crate for loss in battle during that
entire period and when we reached
that point where the big bronze book
laid open at the little clump of trees
ltelling on one side the story of valor
and bravery and the heroism of the
men who wore the gray and on the
Iopposite page of the bronze the equal
lva1or and heroism and devotion of the
men who wore the blue, l took off my
hat, not metaphorically, by physically
flor it seemed to me that we stood on
tho1y ground, if there were any such
within the confines of this republic.
cat that point in passing I want
now to correct a little error I think
of the school text and newspaper his
tory of this country relating to thai
phase of the civil war. The ordinary
school history and magazine refer tc
that heroic charge of heroic men as
the charge of Pickett's Virginians
General George Pickett was himself
Ia Virginian, but as a matter of colo
fact and actual history the majority
of the men who constituted Pickett's
division that charged across mile o1
open ground in the face of $50 Fed
era1 cannon and $4,000 rifles. were
North Carolinians, and as I called the
! attention of the Senator from Iowa tt
the record in the bronze book that lay
open there it occurred to me that the
majority of these regiments tha
!, made for themselves names on the
page of history were North Caroline
regiments
81 myself at this time step from
i. what I wanted to say to give public
utterance to that fact that the me1
of my own native State may not b'
robbed of their part in that heroi'
struggle"
, Senator Dixon recalled that in tn
past he had made contributions t.
the Confederate monument at th'
: county seat of his native county ant
he added, tI did it with a great feel
ing that I was in a small way con
tributing to the perpetuation Of tn
memory of those heroic and brav
men,