The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-26
Active Interest in State
History
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One at AsheDOrO, the other at Eliza
beth City. | regret that my in
a~uiries have elected no further in
formation relative to the former.
The latter, erected by the D.. H.
Hill Chapter, U. D. c., is a shaft sur
mounted by the figure of a Confeder-
ate soldier. standing at rest. It's
total height is 80 feet; it cost $2,650,
end the inscriptions are as follows:
North side)
"To Our Confederate Dead"
(South side)
"1861-1865
Our Heroes"
These two monuments by no means
indicate fully the interest taken by
the people Of North Carolina in pre-
serving the memory Of the Confeder-
ate soldier.
During the past summer the Gull
ford Chapter, United Daughters of
The C~Onfederacy, began a movement
for the erection of a monument at
Greensboro to the Confederate soldiers
of GuilfOrd county. h chapter re-
ports great success in the raising of
funds, but it has most wisely deter
mined not to erect a I'M
til it has raised a sum large enough
to secure n y@cthy Of the object
In this respect the chapter would do
well to keep before its eyes the nota-
Bile achievement Of the Robert f.
Hoke Chapter, at Salisbury.
Acts Of the General Assembly Of
5911 display unusual liberality to-
ward the work of erecting memorials
to the soldiers of the Confederacy
o. the part OF a considerable num-
Der Of counties and towns. The Board
Of Commissioners Of Burke county
was authorized to appropriate as
much as $1,000 toward the erection
of a at in
memoir Of the bravery and devotion
Of the Confederate soldiers Of Burke
county in the Civil War" The rank
lin county commissioners were given
permission to appropriate $1,000 to
aid in "the erection of a monument
in the town Of Louisburg, Franklin
county, to perpetuate the memory Of
the Confederate soldiers who took
part in the late Civil War, 1S61-1S65,
and especially those who enlisted in
the service of that sacred cause from
the county of franklin Similar
acts were passed for Hartford county,
authorizing $1,000; Lincoln county,
authorizing $500; Macon county, au-
thorizing $1,000; Nash county, au-
thorizing $3.50; Polk county, author
izing $500; Sampson county, au-
thorizing $1,000; Scotland county, au-
11oT1ZlDS SoUU, 1oISO1 COuLIy, do-
thorizing $1,000; Stanly county, au-
thorizing the commissioners to ap-
propriate so much money las they
may feel warranted in ~eXpending to
aid in the erection Of said monu-
ment'; the town OF Rockingham,
authorizing $500, and the town OF
Roxboro, authorizing $1,000. II all
these counties and towns avail them
selves of these acts they will expend
~, Copfa1orota monuments more thar
$40, 200, and in each case the act pro-
vided that the Daughters Of the Con
federacy must raise equal amounts
making a total Of more than $4,000
That this patriotic society will raise
their amounts their past achievement
leave US no room to doubt
Andrew johnson Monument.
4 native North Carolinian who at
tanned eminence during the Civil Wa
was Andrew Johnson. Though at one
time slightly in d~isfavor IN the South
yet as we become removed further
and further from the struggle Of the
sixties, as our anlmOSItleS become
mellowed by time, n as our perspec.
tive upon great historical events an6
haracte Of that period becomt
clearer. we can see thai for his mani,
stand in behalf Of her rights in tn
dark days Of Reconstruction, Andrew
Johnson deserves we'll Of the South
ern people,. We ought to welcome
1t seems to me, an opportunity tt
honor his memory. That op~portunit.
has come. On April 27, 1911, Hon
Edward w. Pou, Representative il
Congress from the Fifth Congress
sional District, introduced in tn
House Of Representatives the follow
ing bill:
"Be it enacted by the Senate an
House Of Representatives OF tn
United States Of America, in congress
assembled, that the sum Of twenty
FIVE thousand dollars be, and the sam
is hereby appropriated. out Of an
money in the treasury not otherwis
appropriated, to be expended by tn
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce an
Industry and the ASSOc1a