The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-12
TWO CONFEDERATE
GENERALS HONORED
Memorials to James Pettigrew and
Stephen Ramseur, North Caro-
linians to be Unveiled.

Winchester, Va. Sept. 11-Memo-
rails to two Confederate Generals.
| Stephen Dodson Ramseur and James
| Johnson Pettigrew, both North Caro-
| Iinians, will be unveiled near here dur
| ing the coming week at the places
where they died. Many Southerners
| principally North Carolinians, are ex-
! pected here for the exercises which
will be under the joint auspices of
| the North Carolina Division of United
Confederate Veterans, the North Caro-
lima Division of United Daughters of
the Confederacy and the North Caro-
lima Historical Commission.
The memorial to General Ramseur
which marks the Belle Grove House
where the general died October 20,
1864, will be dedicated on the after
noon of September 16. The memorial
to General Pettigrew which marks the
Boyd House, where he died July IT,
1853, will be dedicated on the morn
ing of September II.
The two memorials consist of gran
tie columns, the gift of the late Col
onel P. H. Mayo, of Richmond, Va.
AT the Ramseur memorial dedication
Thursday afternoon the speakers will
include Major Charles NJ. Stedman,
formerly a member of General Ram
seur's staff and former Senator Henry
A. DUPONT, of Delaware, who was a
class mate of General Ramseur at
West Point, afterward an officer in
the Union Army and who was with
General Ramseur at the time of his
death. General Ramseur was mortal
i,
Creek, near here and fell into the
hands of the Union Army under Gen
eral Philip Sheridan. He was taken
to Sheridan's headquarters at the Rell
Grove House, where he received every
attention from both his own and Fed
eral surgeons, in spite OF which he
died October 20, 1864.
Dedication of the memorial to Cen
eral Pettigrew will take place Friday
morning, the principal address being
by Chief Justice Walter Clark of North
Carolina, while General Louis G.
Young, of Savannah, Ga, an intimate
friend of General Pettigrew, also will
make an address.
General Pettigrew commanded Heth's !
division of the Confederate Army in |
Longstreet's assault on Cemetery
Ridge, July 8. 1868. During Lees re- |
treat from Gettysburg, he commanded |
the rear guard of the Confederate army |
and was wounded at Failing Waters. |
July IA. He was moved at once to |
Boyd House, near here, where he died |
July II, 1868.
The tablet on the Ramseur Memo |
rial reads.
I1Nzra OF of f1h Of Tsf1S
is the Belle Grove House in which |
ceived at Cedar Creek, October 10, |
1864, Major General Stephen Dodson |
Ramseur, c. s. A. A native of North |
Carolina, he resigned from the United |
States army in 1861 and entering the !
Confederate States army as a lieu
tenant, rose to the rank of Major
General at the age of 27."
The Pettigrew memorial tablet is in
scribed:
Due west of this tablet, $50 feet, is |
the Boyd House in which died, July
II, 1868, Brig-Gen. James Johnson Pet
tigrew, of North Carolina, c. S. A. At
Gettysburg he commanded and led
Heth's Division in the assault on
Cemetery Ridge July 8, and in the re-
treat was mortally wounded at Fall
ing Waters, July IA, 1863
"He was a Brave and Accomplish
ed Officer and Gentleman, and his loss
will be deeply felt by the Country
and the army'-R. E. Lee"
Winchester citizens will hold a re-
ception for the visiting Confederate
veterans and their friends Thursday
night.