The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-23
II. Randie. of Hernand, Miss. jim
Memphis Commercial Appeal.)

Gen. Forests name should never
die or rust. We must brush the dust
off Of it occasionally
Some have supposed tina ne was a
great general in a small way; that it
Is doubtful if lie Gould have conducted
! we'll a campaign at the head Of q large
army, and could have handled SO
600 or LOO, 900 men in battle. We will
try TO throw a little light on the ques-
ton. He did more campaigning than
any officer on either side, and, none
was more successful, and always on
his own responsibility. He was com
mander-in-chief. He proved himself
oftener during the war than any other
commander. Perhaps Lee or Jackson
or Serman or Grant might have
proved as Bile il tried as often. In
the frequency, the success, the daring,
and extent of his exploits, he stands
without a rival in American history.
He is also unrivaled in adapting suit
able methods and plans to meet the
ever-shifting and varying conditions
and battling enemies confronting him.
We must acknowledge, however, he
was never i'll command Of a great
army; but still we will see what he
would have lone at certain times If
he had been. At the fall of Fort Don
aldson, on Cumberland River, near
Dover. Tenn, he was colonel of cav
airy. In that night that a council of
\ N0I WAS CdlIeu dIlt liz SuIIt1lticl u
!, the place was agreed upon by the
: council, Col. Forrest arrived at little
late. He very earnestly protested
said we had severely repulSed the
enemy that day, and could do it
, again. Gen. Buchner. who then had
= command, said: Take YOU seat. Col.
Forrest, you are already surrendered"
. Forrest replied that he and his com
mand were lot going to surrender, that
they were going Out-that they could
u all go out. The critics have decided
a that the Confederate could have held
y the place, or could have gone out with
= Forrest. If the command had been
turned over TO Forrest, he-unquestion-
ably would have held the place till
= Johnston could have beaten Buell. and
relieved n fort.
@ We will next notice him in the bat
tie OF Shiloh. Gen. Albert Sidney
q Johnston had fallen in the full f1usf
Of victory. Grants army were in The
greatest confusion on the bank of tn
le Tennessee River. Forrest with his cav
v airy went near enough TO plainly se'
r the condition. He hastened to repor
to BeauregaT0 that there was moth
II ing to DO bur 10 go and take them
Gov. Harris made a like report. Blu
Id Beauregard said: "The soldiers ar
le tired let them rest till morning an
IN then we will take them He was tol'
by Forrest and Harris that Rue
KS would be there by morning with
m fresh army II then il would be 10
late.
ed Military critics have agreed tia
e, Grants army could have been captur
as I'd that evening. Gen. futile, one c
tn the Federal generals III the Dattl'
Al
lie turc, their classic purity of style, an
n, the wholesome spirit that perVade
% them
)r. ".
~ The purpose in this paper has bee
TO give a necessarily rapid review {
~ North Carolina fiction, particularly ,
the extent to which the life Of Nort
~ Carolina has been interpreted i'll In
-, literary form. Many writer's al
in many books are of necessity un1ne1
toned. However,, after~even this has
u review. we must, | think. re-affir
80 that North Carolina has been, in II
recreation OF her past in fiction, lie
fortunate than several other <Southel
Wv States. The dramatic periods of o.
history-Roanoke and the first settl
we uient, the period of the Regulate
he and the Revolution. the period al
l. growth and liberalization. the Cl'
llal War. and the subsequent social I
OF adjustment-these periods, all Of j
IN tense significance, have indeed be-
touched, but not yet, we feel, ma
VI they received final or even talrlE Sa
is%factOry treatment i'll fiction. Fruit
Ted erD5ora no native of the State has \
IL i'll fiction attained what promises
!a - n~ar1na0ant Mace in the iteratll
of the nation, save only William 81
- ney Porter.
Is there not peculiar significance
are the fact that the Patterson Cup Il
ing toen nraserfed now for Ten cOnSeC
tral Two vaare. one for poetry. thrice t
history, thrice for biography. thrI
for description and travel; never
thy for fiction. Fiction has been IL /
nan eligible list many times; but the !
!, it, ton offered has not Yet measured
to well established
nee "A good story Well loiO Is
lout sor Phelps's definition OF a novel.
the uIiiDitiared TINS seems tantal1An
nv w eaev-tO tell a story the on