The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
Chief Justice Clark's Address
at Unveiiing of BurgaW
Monument
tCOntinued from Page Six

anu lHcH tfpefS and those who
wanted to 30 to the rear anyway.
would begin drifting back. Their
line would pause to return orr fire
and then come on in a rush. then in
about SO or IS yards, we would fire
when enormous gaps in their
lines would ppe as by magic and
then their line would crumble and
oaSsofve as you have seen a dam when
II begins to break as the water cuts its
way Instantly there would be before
us nothing but dead and wounded
horses and men and abandoned guns
andaDometimes flags. In q short time
the enemy would renew his canon
AIDE and then another charge. This
was one six times that day. Our
lines were not broken at a single |
point. Had it been broken at any one
place the enemy would have poured
through and our entire army Captur-
ed, for we had no reserves and the
Potomac River at our back. At one
time on that day, in the historic
Peach Orchard / saw Gen. D. H. Hill
go up and down his line with his men
stationed five or ten feet apart. 1t
was h most splendid bluff that a
Presbyterian Elder or any else ever
put up. Among those men, / remember
distinctly, was the Third N. c. Regi-
ment, Ransom's Regiment, command
ed by Col. VIM. l.. DeRessett, in
1 WilOSc regiment Sd1fdif Tic
from Pender Indeed ] saw Col. De
Rossett when he was brought out
wounded.
But to return to my story, It was
just after the third or fourth charge
the enemy had been repulsed. My
regiment was mmande by Col.
Matt Ransom, after h war for
twenty-three years u. S. Senator, and
personally known to many who are
not present. l was the -adjutant % his
regiment to which / had been APP
pointed before 1 was is years of age
and hence a boy, as We count them
now. We were looking at the enemy
just disappearing over h hill when a
stout officer in jack boots, probably
5 feet 10 with a full beard and a
slouch hat rode up anG said to ms
Who commands this line ! told
him that Col. Matt Ransom com
manGed the regiment n Gen. Rob
ert Ransom the brigade, and pointed
out Col. Ransom who was a few feel
off. ] drought Col. Ransom to him
jackson asked Ransom closely abou
the enemy. whether they showed
much ent nESiaSm or tPnaclty ant
whether they broke quickly or clnna
to THEN ground StubbOrniy. He ther
said to Ransom Il am going aTounC
to take these people in tho rear, ,ant
when yoE tear the rattle OF my SINAI
arms i want this whole line TO -ad
vance" Col. Ransom mentioned tt
MIN that our sharp shooters h"o fDl
lowed the enemy closely on their re
tirement and that one, who had 1on'
to the edge of the hill. had reported
that the enemy had in reserve al
overwhelming force. We WIRE in tr
edge of the West woods neer I'll
r turnpike and General Jackson or
dercd that a MIN De. sent UP a al
tree near by &c see. a Nou:ss fellow
J named Hood from M~ecklcnbucC, VIII
. was Ransom's orderly, volunteers
and quickly climbed a tree On Che sid
furthest from the enemy. ""Ee-
o asked by jackson about the enerny n
replied There are Oceaf:s OF them.
To which Jackson said stern,y "Couh
I their flags, sir" lie counted AZ t
e thirty-eight which how that t1er
were thirty-eight regiments ana wa
soing to count mere when .he e1aem
e probaaeiy seeing Rood through tfsei
e telescope opened their cannonad
e asain and told hin "Tnd
will do. ON down" With IN
knowledge IF the entn1y;s fierce FOL
u tunate1y The flank movement was nc
attempted.
It 1t was the only time during h wa
II that l was sneker 10 by jackson, b,
% it thrilled olic at the time rs wit
re electricity, fsT l felt that | had spoke
n with 'onc of the ~1Errnortais.
II YsA confederate Achilles.
You yi1l remember hal during ii
Trojan Naa, Achilles was the gre,
at hcro OF the Greeks. Afte- the clio:
~ 1 81 the war and his death. Ulysses
starting GA lfis memorable eo%as
which is 50 beAuaifuHy narrated I
s, Homer in the Odyssey, saiG that
I'll proposed TO sail beyond tire Westcl
al ! stars touch at the Happy Isle
where peTchance, We 7aay see aga
81 the great AcAilkr whom we kfto'
g. and those who loved and follow
e: him" Before us today are some WI
in like Ulysses ma ere leng pass beSeI
a. the western stars. May they tca<
at the Happy Isles and see agait, pc
chsncc. sp- great Achilles and Il
friends eff oar beyi,ood who loved al
followed a.hh.
This monument has beer erected
the loving devotion Cfthe n0t:e wef
en- Of yO1r County. Indeed there
not = monument ti1f Pot