The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

And the last football ef the tread ~
the old Confederate regiments whose
march shock a Continent, shall be
eehoing in eternity.
Truly Of the Confederate oldi.r
no less can be said than Perlcles The
great Athenian more than , zee Years
ago. sal dof his own countrymen Who
had fallen in a great war.
ever. in all time, there shall t@
| speech Of great deeds. there shah lie
thought and memory of you
Honor to Any Army.
| 7 haG thought 10 sum UP and re-
| view briefly on this occasion the ser
| vices of the various companies Of
brave men that Pender county sent &c
| the front. but owing te the fact that
| Your county. during the war. was a
| part Of New IL would be i'm
| possible with the resources and time
| at my command to separate and dis
| tIugaish the parts OF these s.i-
| which came from Pender county. II
is clear, however. that the number
Of soldiers from that part Of New
Hanover which is now embraced in
Pender exceeded yeur list of voters
in 1861. We know that they render
ed distinguished service and deserve
this memorial TO their valor which
has been raised by the ladies Of PEN
der.
A whole volume could not narrats
adequately all that deserves &c hs
recorded nor enable me to pay Just
tribute to SO many brave men and
mention the many notable ineident,
connected with their services. This
county furnished many splendid ori-
GERS, who would have been an hono-
to any army-their are for their
men, their courage and leadership III
battle. might tell, too, the story
Of many a private, who leaving his
humble home, ndured for months
and years every hardship. faced dis
ease. danger and death with ar equal
countenance, fulfilling every duty and
rising almost to himself 10
the highest and fullest measure If 4
man. They wore no stars or bars of
official rank; their names filed ne
bugfe blast Of fame. Faithfully they
lived hidden hives and too often they
filled graves, but when the
fnal balance is struck by the hand
that never errs their names shall lead
all the rest.
1t is generally thought that the men
who served under Lee and Jackson
and Johnston and Forrest often saw
those great men. But it was not often
{. matter of fact that the high com
J manders were seen by many Of their
men and then usually at a distance,
except in time of battle. The officers
with whom we were thrown in con
tact were those of ones own company
and regiment and rarely beyond these
! of ones own brigade. Only twice or
: thrice during that struggle was it my
fortune to see Stonewan jackson
{ close at hand and only once to SPEAK
with him, but he lived only hall
through the war. Had he lived lon
: ger the result of the war might have
{ been different. The incident l speak
L nf WAS SLIGHT in jtSolf Int IF thrilled
me at the time and may possibly in
tereSt this audience. l will relate II
1t was at the battle Of Sharpsbnrs
( We had crossed the Potomac Rive
when an order to one Of his general,
giving the proposed movements 9
= our army signed by General Lee We
picked up in one Of our abaEdene,
. camps and carried TO General Nc
Clei1an. Thus informed, he made
sudden change Of front which jee
l. pardized our army and forced II
Y back into a bend Of the Potomac
e River. The river like a bow was n
# our back and our army was stretche'
across it like the string to the bow
.r When armies are in contact each gen
le eral can do little more than guess tn
d numbers and the intentions of IN
ID enemy. We now know tina MetIeI
rt Ian had for duty that day 100, ee
ut men, and that we at no time had NOR
~ than 33,e00 and until the arrival 9
he HITS Light Division and some other
IN In the afternoon not more than 81
he O0e. But McClellan's dispatches t
a. Lincoln show that he thought that "
r had nearly as many men as he. Ha
n ne rope his entire force of Iee
n 0oo men upon our single line Of ia,
&, Tie, We had no endorsements an
Sharpsburg would have taken il
c place IN the history Of our race by tn
te SIDE of those great disasters at F1oe
r den and at Hastings. Instead Of tn.
as Mcclellan sent in one corps at a tim,
one after another, and thus We he
Id the line all day and the pext d.
ut y the second night safely withare
Is across the river.
\ Soldiers Post.
'S Seeped up as we were. there ":
ad no room for strategy or mann...