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 " J^^NK'-A^N D FILE," 
 
 AND TO 
 
 HeNRY-iL>VVYftTT, 
 
 The First Hero who fell in Defence of 
 the South. 
 
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 By one who sympathized in their successes, mourned 
 their k)sses, admired their heroism, and shared their hardships, 
 
 "No marble slab or graven stone 
 Their gallant deeds to tell, 
 No monument to mark the spot 
 Where they with glory fell: 
 Their names shall yet a herald find. 
 In every tongue of fame, 
 When valley, stream, and minstrel voice, 
 Shall ring with their acclaim." 
 
 JULIAN S. CARR, (Private.) 
 Company K, 3rd N. C. Cavah'v, Baringer"s Brigade. 
 Gen'l W. H. F. Lee's Division, Hampton's Corps, 
 
 Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A, 
 
 Delivered at Wilmington, N. ,C., May the loth, 1894. 
 
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 University of Nortii Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 
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VETERANS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, MR. 
 PRESIDENT, LADn-:S' AND GENTLEMEN: 
 
 "In a Ur fair valley, in the sunshine of splendid skies, 
 all the birds of all the world were sii ging togtthei . It was a 
 universal concert — a livalry between the birds to name the 
 sweetest singer. But one bird in that melodious lumult 
 seemed silent — list mng as tht- leaves listen wh-^n the wind 
 sings soft and low; and ;is the f-^athered musicians strained 
 th' ir throats in that enchanting chorus they w^ondered why 
 that lone and listening bird sang not, and as the music lulled, 
 one of the singers said : "Have you no voice to sing ? Why 
 do you sit silent, while we are singing?" And yet another 
 said : "It is some poor bird that is grieving for its mate, lost 
 in the tangled wilderness. Let it listen and sing not, lest the 
 sorrow of its wounded heart should sadden our s ngs." And 
 another, yityingthat lonely bit d, said • "The poor thin^'^' has 
 no heart to sing. Nome black binl of night has robbed it of 
 its young, and the winds have rilled iis downy nest among the 
 fir trees. Let it not \ reak its heart by singiu^." 
 
 And the silent bird answered : "Do not think of me. I 
 would rather si! and listen to you sing. I luive n<' music of 
 my o'.vn, but I love to listen when yi>u sing. Let me sit here 
 in the sunshine until I learn to sing.'' 
 
 Like the bird, I would ■vastly prefer to sit silent in this 
 presence to-day, and hear s "'me of your own distinguished 
 townsmen, whose !; rilli^mt talents exercised at the bar. in jour- 
 nalism, and in the pulpit, has given and rightly so, your beau- 
 tiful ci-y by the sea, all over our dear Southland, much repu- 
 tation ,for oratory and fine literary attainments But to do 
 so, w'ould argue my unfaithfulness to every chivalric senti- 
 ment that stirs a heart, that faithfully and devotedly loves 
 the subject upon which I shall sprak to you to-day. 
 
 A famous poet wrote these lines, 
 
 ''Above the crash of Troy is Homer's music heard, 
 And by that immortal flow of song the present hour is stirr'd." 
 
 I would regard it as a hopeless task, to attempt to engage 
 your attention, and to touch vour hearts on this sacred occa- 
 sion, were it not that like that of Troy, the story o* our dead 
 Republic can never cease to be interesting, and inspiring, to 
 all whose hearts beat with noble impulses. 
 
 There lives no brave man or woman who does not love 
 
 «^ «a 'N \ lL 
 
to roam in imaginiition o'er the liattle plains of earth, where 
 liberty has lieen lought for, and heroi(; deeds performed. 
 
 'Tis for tills we read of Hector and Achilles; of the ex- 
 ploits of the (ireeks and Romans; linger over the records of 
 the crusades, and the Li n-hearted Richard ; and listen to 
 the battle thunders of Napoleon roaring from the gates of the 
 Russian Capital to the foot if tlie Pyramids. 
 
 Bui I come to you to-day with a grander, nobler theme 
 
 A Tribute to Privat- Henry L. Wyatt, and his Heroic 
 Compatriots, the Private ^oldiers of the Southern Confederacy. 
 
 in commencing my o:;ition I feel the truth ol Bossuet's: 
 words, as he began liis splendid eulogy on the Prince of 
 Conde ; said he, "At the moment I open my lips to cele 
 brate the im'^iortal glory of the Prince of Conde, I find my- 
 self ecjuall* A'erwhelmed by the greatness of the suiiject, and 
 the needlessness of the task. What part of the habitable 
 globe ha^ not heard of bis victories, and the wonders of his 
 life? Everywhere, they are rehearsed. His own country- 
 men in extolling them can give no information evt-n to the 
 stranger; and although I may remind you of them, yet every- 
 thing I couKi say, would be anticipated by your thoughts, 
 and I should suiter the rej)r( ach of falling far bel.'W them." 
 
 How tru^ is all tliis today ? AYhat leaf can be added to 
 the laurel that tells the world of the eternal fame of the Con- 
 federate soldier ? 
 
 A VISSIOX OF THE PAST. 
 
 Under tlie influence of this occasion, we are once more 
 amid tlie scenes of the four most eventful y- ars of our na- 
 tional history. Once again, we see our land lashed by the 
 waves that presaged Civil "War; 
 
 "Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, 
 And gathering tears, and treinbHngs of distress ; 
 And there were sudden partings, such as jjress 
 The Hfe from out bra\-e hearts. 
 And there was mounting in hot haste, the steed, 
 The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, 
 Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, 
 And swiftly forming in the ranks of war." 
 
 We see fathers putting away the clinging arms of child- 
 dren, and bending above the cradles of dimj)]ed babes We 
 see noble women, triumphant over fear, speeding husband, 
 fathers, brothers, sons, to gory fields, to battle for the right. We 
 bear the roll of drums, we see marching columns with ban- 
 ners, wrought by the hand of beauty and love. We go with 
 them to the battle plains, across the rivers, over the valleys, 
 up the mountain slopes, and lo ! every where ; 
 
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 "The Giant War in awful power stands, 
 
 His Ijlood-red tresses deepening in the sun ; 
 With death-shot p;lowing in his fiery hands. 
 And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon." 
 
 We see our armies worn away, until divisions becomes 
 brigades brigades regiments, and regiments companies. We 
 see the awful suffering and sorrow of the stricken South. 
 And now, like some mighty monarch of the forest that has 
 defied the storms of years, forced at last to yield, we see the 
 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia that army — that 
 had "dipped its conquering banners in the crimson tide of 
 eight and twenty battles " 
 
 We see the soldier in gray, who has sacrificed his all,save 
 honor, turn his tired footsteps and weary eyes, forcing back 
 the tears of despair, towards his desolated hom( Mid ragged 
 starving loved ones 
 
 ]\Iy friends it is well for us to honor our heroes and to 
 commune on each returning tenth of May over the sweet, 
 sad. inspiring memories of the past. 
 
 THE HEROISM OF THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 Lord Beaconsfield said, "It is at the feet of woman we 
 lay the laurels that without her smile would never have 
 been gained. It is her image that strings the lyre of the poet, 
 that animates the voice in the blaze of eloquent faction, 
 guides the statesman in the august toils of stately councils, 
 and inspires the warrior to deeds of splendid daring." 
 
 Lamartine said, "Woman is behind all great things." 
 These sentiments by illustrious men, never found as perfect 
 realization as in the conduct of the women of the South du- 
 ring the war, and since. 
 
 We ar^ thrilled by the splendid heroism of the Greek, 
 Roman, and Carthagenian women, as they sustained the 
 fainting spirits of the defenders of their countries, but history 
 records nothing equal to. the patience under unparalled 
 hardship, courage in the face of peril, and hope in the dark- 
 est hours of misfortune, shown by the women of the South 
 since sixty one. 
 
 As the belief in the Athenian mind, "that Theseus march- 
 ed in the van of their armies, reddening the waves of the 
 iEgean Sea" with the blood of their enemies, sustained 
 their banners at Salamis and Platea," so ever about the 
 armies of the South hovered the inspiring influence of her 
 heroic women. 
 
 With such Mothers, Wives, Sisters and loved ones, the 
 soldiers of the South, could not do less in the press of 
 battle, than win the admiration of the world. 
 
It wan pnsif^r t'> fice Northern bullets, than the scorn of 
 the Ina'(•.hle!^s (hiughters of the South. 
 
 It was the women of the South who after their "Cause" 
 was crushed, met tlie veterans iu gray" on the threshohls of 
 (lesohited homes, and putting tht'ir white arms about them, 
 with hright smiles and encouraging words, insjjired tliem to 
 press onward, and to make the tSouth what she is to-day. 
 
 Her inlluence inspired him in battle. Her hand soothtd 
 him in sicl^ness. Her voice encouraged him in poverty. 
 Her efforts rears monuments to perpetuate Ids memory. 
 And the beautiful memorial custom of strewin;i Spring's 
 sweetest, raresf treasures upon Ins grave, is an Institution 
 sanctified by her love. God bless the women of the Soutli. 
 
 'IHK SdlTlI. 
 
 The St)Ulh loved the Union Had she not caus^- to love 
 it? Had she not done more than aiiy other section of the 
 country to create it? Had she not guided and protected the 
 Republic for ne>rly a century prior to sixty one? 
 
 Up to that time the South had had sixty years of Presi- 
 dents, the Nortli twenty-four; eighteen Judges of the Su- 
 preQje Court of the United States, the Nortli eleven; four- 
 teen Attorney Generals, tlie North five; eighty-six Foreign 
 Ministers, the North fiity-four; and the vast majoiiiy of th.e 
 officers of the Army and Navy were South>roiis. 
 
 Her sons iiad stood in defe; sf of the Ur. ion, upon tite 
 historic fields of the Revolution, Saratoga, Tr nlou, Valley 
 Forge, Eenning'ton, jMonmoutii and Yorktown. 
 
 The imortal southerners Jelierson, ilenrj', Madison, 
 Marshall and Wasliington, were the fathers of American lib- 
 erty, and the architects of her instiiutions. 
 
 Southern paer:su es, southern statesmen and souttiern 
 arms, led in acquiri;;g the National Terri'orv-, and placed on 
 the Hag of tlie Union tirirty of the torty-tv.o stars that glit- 
 tered there. 
 
 REBKLS A\D REBELLION. 
 
 I will not discuss the causes of the w\ar beyond a few 
 remarks which I deem proper to this occasion The Con- 
 federate soldier was no rebel. The contest of sixty-one-five 
 was not a rebellion. It was a mighty Revolution. "Rebellion" 
 presumes a defiance of some authorized superior." Great 
 issues arose between the sections. There was no judge. 
 The Constitution was sih nt. 
 
 General McClellan after the battles of the Chicahominy, 
 wrote President Lincoln, "This conflict has assumed the 
 character of War, and as such, sbould be regarded. And 
 
should be conducted upon the hiii,lie8t principles known to 
 civilization. 
 
 And says Heinelin. the greatest political writer of the 
 North, "We think the fact that the so-called secessionest, 
 counted by thousands, even as to tlie more prominent leaders, 
 and by millions including the masses, thai were as zealous in 
 the cause, if not more so, and the further fact that counting 
 with them their sympathizers they constitute the majority of 
 the citizens of America, and that the Confederacy covered a 
 territory eight times the size of Great Britain, ought to admon- 
 ish us that the movement of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 was not treason, nor a rebellion, but War, between different 
 portions of American society, about misunderstood interpre- 
 tations of the fundamental law." 
 
 You will search in vain the Records of the leaders of 
 the Confederacy for a sentiment in favor of a dissolution of 
 the Union, until every effort at conciliation, and every de- 
 mand for justice, had failed. 
 
 NORTH CAROLIXA IX THE WAR. 
 
 There are some facts about North Carolina that in justice 
 to her sons, ought to be emphasized and reiterated as often 
 as possil)le. The people of this Commonwealth, are rich in 
 deeds of matchless daring and patriotism. They have been 
 inexcusably negligent in recording and blazoning them forth 
 to the world. North Carolina should follow the example of 
 her sisters, in setting forth her glories with tongue and pen 
 and in ever during bronze. 
 
 We owe this to ourselves, to future generations, and to 
 our dead and living heroes, who plucked immortal honors 
 from, 
 
 "Looming bastions fringed with fire." 
 
 North Carolina at Mecklenburg sounded the first note 
 for Independence heard on this continent. Yorktown was 
 but the necessary result of King's Mountain and Guilford 
 Court House Resistance to British tyranny, in the port of 
 \Vilmington, occurred eight years before the splendid deed of 
 Boston Harbor. Her Davie, Blount, Martin, Speight and Wil- 
 liamson, not only helped to lay thegrea foundations of the 
 Constitution, but cut and shaped its very corner stone, "'for at 
 the critical moment, when upon their vote hung the fate of 
 the Constitution, her representatives left the great states on 
 the question of representation, joined the small states, and 
 saved the Constitution by a vote of four to five." 
 
 North Carolina loved the Union. The last Southern 
 State to secede, she only took that step, when Mr. Lincoln 
 
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 demanded that nhe should draw her sword against her Sis- 
 ters 'The ti/lh in rvltilp popnlalinri, i<}if' fiirms]\rd more, troops to 
 the. C'oiifederaci/ tlian on;/ other .state of the South. With a voting 
 popuhition ol' one hundred and tit'teen tlionsand, she sent to 
 tlie front of battle, one hun(h-ed and twenty-live thousand, of 
 the six hundred thousand soldiers of the South. She lost the 
 lirst man in battle, to whom we pay tribute to day, and Bt-n 
 tonsville was the last great contest of the war. Of the ninety- 
 two regiments in the battles around Richmond, forty-six reg- 
 iments were of North Carolina, and her killed at Chancellors- 
 ville constituted one half the entire Confederate loss Her 
 troops jtenetrated further into the Federal lines at Gettysburg, 
 than those of any other State, and she lost more men in that 
 battle, tlian Virginia. Mississippi, and South Carolina com- 
 bined. H<-r seaport at Wilmington, was for many months 
 the support and only hope of the Cf>nfederacy, and the 
 veterans composing the Brigade led by our own Gallant Wra. 
 R Cox, of Grimes's Division of North Carolina troops made 
 the last charge at Appomatax, and the curtain f 11 u|jon 
 the bloody drama of war as the sound of the last gun thun- 
 dered from a North Carolina Battery comtoaudt d by a Wilmiug- 
 tonian Capt. Flarmer, and the star of the Southern Confederacy 
 went out in the blackness of darkness and the cause we 
 loved was lost. 
 
 Teach it to our Posterity, that '^'"orth Carolina furnished 
 the most men, laid upon the altars of -Southern liberties he tirst 
 victim, led the last charge, and fired the last gun in defence 
 of Southern homes. 
 
 As we stand in the shadows of the greatest sorrow the 
 state has known it will b- useful to recall why this was so 
 It was the elfect of the policy of the remarkable man a typi- 
 cal North Carolinian, whom we have just laid to rest in Ashe- 
 
 ville 
 
 Zebulin B. \ance was a typical North Carolinian. Did 
 it ever occur to you what a singular being, as the word goes 
 a real North Carolinian is? A cheerJul hearted man enough, 
 but sober minded; reverent of authority, but vigilant of its 
 encroachments; unlearned in the art of self-seeking, tenacious 
 of the rights he has; a literal sort ol person, intending to do 
 his duty and expecting others to do theirs; too tolerant of 
 the feelings of others, or too proud, or both, to exhibit his 
 own pride; so intent in the making of history rather than the 
 writing of it, that it has taken over a century to induce him 
 to boast of his unboastfulness in the supreme assertion that 
 he would rather be than seem to be. That is the typical 
 
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 North Carolinian, as lie has been Irom xVlamance to Appa- 
 mattox. That was Vance, preeiuinently. It was not the gen- 
 ius of popuUirity as so beautituily sugi^ested by his colleague 
 that gave him unprecedented sway over the atfections of his 
 {)eople, but sympathy with them rather, in the common pos- 
 session of this leading trait. Oi.e of the Senators who came 
 to North Carolina with his body the other day, viewing the 
 reverent demonstrationson on the way, exclaimed that no other 
 had lived who possessed the ali'ections of so many of his fel- 
 low men. 
 
 He was a remarkal)le man. He was a leader of men and 
 possessed the genius of rule. He was not our greatest lawyer; 
 nor our greate~t soldier. But no doubt lie could have been 
 either if his comprehensive talents had not required him to be 
 more Lawyers, soldiers, men of science and all th^- craftsmen 
 are but tools in the hands of statesmen, and Vance was a 
 statesman. No one less endowed than he could have done for 
 North Carolina what he did in the great war. The enemy is 
 the best judge of the eftectiveness of his work, and they singled 
 him out from among all his compeers to suffer the honor of 
 imprisonment with Mr. Davis. Inexorable truth has at last 
 revealed North Carolina's preeminence over all the states in 
 that supreme test of war. Can it be doubted that impartial 
 history wnll accord to her leader his logical place? His sub- 
 sequent career showed no diminution of his powers. The 
 mind ri-coils from contemplation of what the State would have 
 been without his voice in 1876. Of his position in the Senate 
 a great St-nator said the other day that when the lines were 
 drawn on a party question he had no equal on its floor. 
 
 It seems to me that this greatest of Carolenians must be 
 likened only to Pericles, the greatest Athenian. Each pos- 
 sessed transcendent abilities, and by an hereditarv pre- dispo- 
 sition to espouse the cause of the people secured almost abso- 
 lute controll of them. Yet the boundless influence thus ac- 
 quired was never debased by either for the promotiom oj 
 selfish objects. 
 
 HE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA THE TWENTY-SIX NORTH i?iVR- 
 
 OLINA REGIMENT AT GETTYSBURG THE FIFTH NORTH 
 
 CAROLINA REGIMENT AT WILLIAMSBURG. 
 
 I see the charge of The Light Brigade at Balaklava, 
 world-renowned. I see six hundred and seven "sabres'' in all 
 the pride and splendor of war, close toward the enemy's lines. 
 As the thirty-seven cannon open upon them, whole squadrons 
 seem to sink into the earth. But they pause not, with a wild 
 cheer and a halo of flashing steel above their heads they go 
 
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 into tlie tire of the RnssiMn batteries In that magnificent 
 chnrge, "The Ligiit Brigade'' lost "one hundred and forty seven 
 nx-'i) Lillcd. <iiir hundred and frn irounded, and Htree Itundred OJid 
 lh>rfi//ire Jnrrsi's. '' 
 
 6u their re-t rn to iMigland, they were feh'd as iieroes, 
 hanqucted in the |)iiblic sijuares of London, honored with 
 medals iVom the (^^''t'n, and the Poet Laureate, found in their 
 action insjjiration for the hrigliest jewel that glitters amongst 
 his poetic gems : 
 
 •■Flash'd all their sal. res liarc 
 FlashVl as tlu-y tur?u;il in air 
 Sabring tlit.- gunnL-rs tlic-rc ; 
 Charging an army, wiiile 
 All the wurld wundered;" 
 
 Yet I tell you that the cliarge of the Twenty->ixth North 
 Carolina Ilegimeitt at CJettysl>urg, led by its intrepid com- 
 mander, Harry King Burgwyn, surpass'^d that of the Light 
 Brigade at Balaklava. A tide of living valor, that Regitnent 
 eight hundred and twenty strong, went into the tire of the 
 batteries, and came out with eighty men. In that "high car- 
 nival of deatli and honor,'' the heroic yonng Colonel, the 
 youngest in eitlter army, was the tenth man to fall with the 
 colors of his Regiment. "Hero after herograsjjed that banner, 
 and was shot (lown, until the Jifteenfli man. Private Daniel 
 Thomas, of Chatham County, sprang forward, and grasping 
 the shattered staii', strode through the iron hail with his faith- 
 ful Color Seargent Brooks, of the same county, and j)lanted 
 it on the works of the bloody angle." The charge of the Fifth 
 North Carolina and Twenty-Fourth Virginia Regiments at 
 Williamsburg, was so superb, that the enemy sent up a shout 
 of admiration as they rushed upon his guns, and the New 
 York Herald declared tlie next day, that "the word 'Immortal' 
 ought to be written in hdlers of gold up u their banners.'' 
 
 The iMth North Carolina, commanded by Col. A. M. 
 Scales afterwards Governor, was the only regiment in the Con- 
 federate Army, so far as I have been able to verify, that 
 actually locked bayonets with the enemy. Col. E B. Withers, 
 who is now an honored citizen and successful lawyer of Dan- 
 vil e Va. writes me as follows: In the battle of Williamsburg, 
 May 5th, 1 86 >, the 13th North Carolina Troops, then com 
 manded by Col A. A[. Scales, afterwards Genl. Scales, Thos. 
 Ruffin, Lieut. Col. — I was Capt. of Co A. (Y'anceyville Gravs,) 
 late in the evening on the right of the Yorktown road, the 
 regiment, or rather four companies of the regiment was charg- 
 ed by a Pennsylvania regiment (of Buck Tails,) the four com- 
 
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 panies alone were euo-aged — the ulher six were so placed that 
 tliey could not lire or eu^af^e in the battle. Three companies, 
 B. of Mecklenburp-; K oi Kockinoham and Caswell, and G. of 
 Edgecombe were actually engap^ed in a hand to hand bayonet 
 charge with the Pennsylvania regiment. I witnessed our men 
 receiving a charge with bayonets, and saw contest after con- 
 test, where the death of one of the parties onl}'^ ended the con- 
 test, the dead of both armies lay side by side, killed in both 
 cases by bayonets Dr. Giles P Bailey of Rockinham (bounty, 
 Capt. of Co. K. was shot while in the act of cleaving the skull 
 of a Federal soldier who was attempting to kill him with a 
 bayonet. I saw att Ward of Rockingham County, who was 
 loading bis mus'^et when ( hai'ged by a federal, drop the ram- 
 mer and locked bayonets with his enemy and carried him to 
 the ground with his bayonet through him. Capt. Hugh 
 Guerrant who was in the very midst of the hand to hand 
 fieht. and had several men in his regiment killed with bayo- 
 nets, says that he could ste and hear the bayonets clash 
 along the line as they locked shoulder to shoulder We were 
 firing at close range before locking bayonets, so close that J. 
 L Ward of i y company not having time to draw his ram- 
 rod shot it through the body of his man then clubbing his 
 musket Ward brained three of the enemy with the butt of his 
 gun. In this hand to hand fight, Ward the hero of the day, 
 received seven bayonet wounds, two gun shots and one sabre 
 cut, th<- ground was covered with the FeiJeral dead, many of 
 them bayoneted in every conceivable manner; the gallant 
 thirteenth held the field. 
 
 Col. Fox a Federal Offi er. who is engaged by the War 
 department in aiding to prepare an account of the late con- 
 test, as shown by the Confederate records, has prepared a 
 list of the 27 Regiments that had most men killed and 
 wounded in any one battle of the war, North Carolina stands 
 at the head of the list, with 6 regiments, and gallant Miss- 
 issippi next with S. 
 
 Such was the heroism of the North Carolina tr.v ps from 
 Bethel to Bentonsville, and as Napoleon sle ; mid the 
 squares of the Old Guard, and rested t. is throne upon their 
 bayonets in a hundred battles, so did the peerless Lee, 
 rely upon North Carolina's veterans. 
 
 And as they were brave, so have they ever shown them- 
 selves generous and noble. Not one word would they utter 
 in derogation of the magnificent heroism and self-sacrificing 
 spirit of their brethren in arms, from other states. Nor 
 would they detract one iota from the soldierly qualities of. 
 
I 111' INKlN" VK'IKkAN. 
 
 TiiH army uf XortluTii Virginia dni ncjt win eternal glo- 
 ry witiioLit tljH hardest work, and t ,u uio.->t desperate fighting, 
 tliat the wtirld hasevtr .set-n. Barring mercenaries, and a low 
 elenjent from the northern cities, the Federal Soldier, was de- 
 ciplined, determined, and otV-n lieroic. It is to our honor 
 tliat this should he known. Tiie splendor ot the (Jarthage- 
 nian arms was written upon tlje shields of the Roman Le- 
 gions. I'ne glory of the Confederate soldier, is h^'sf st^en in the 
 unsuccessful but i eroic charges of the Union troops. 
 
 At sec(jnd Manassas the lirst assault of tlje '^'edeals was 
 succeeded by another and another, ever increasing in fury, 
 until th y had made six <2:reat l)ut unsuccessful assaults. The 
 deeds of the Federals at Fredericksburg, cliitHy Meagher's 
 Irish l^rigade surpassed the best work of the Englis i at In- 
 kerman. Tfie first charge of four thousand was repulsed in a 
 few mlnu es witti a loss of sixteen hundred men. The sec- 
 ond charging column of twenty-five hundrei), which followed 
 immediately over the ground of the first c: arge, resulted in 
 twentii viinules in a loss of lien lhoiif<and, and in the third 
 charge of four thous nd veterans, wiiich followed at once, 
 they lost seventeen hundred and sixty 
 
 What a spectacle was that at Cold Harboi' in sixty-four ! 
 Grant hurled liis whole army, one hundred and fifty tuou- 
 sand strong, straight at the tront of Lee; and in less than 
 /hirh/ miniiteti, thirlren Oioumnd of his best troops, were lying 
 in heaps upon the bio dy ground. When a second charge 
 was ordered, says ^\y. Swinton, "tl.e Army of the Potomac 
 refused to move;" a silent protest against their Commander, 
 and a splendid tribute to the Arnjy of Xorthern Virginia. 
 For the most part, such was the m<ia! with which our heroes 
 ijad to contend ior funr year.^. 
 
 THE COMMANDER THE PRIVATE. 
 
 Says John Esten Cooke, '"narratives of battles are cheifly, 
 studied ;;nd admired for the plans and combinations of 
 mighty intellects.'' Up to the time of the order to "fire" or, 
 "charge bayonets,"' it is a matter of science logistics, tactics 
 strategy ; after that order, it is for the Private-- and subordi- 
 nate officers to execute it, amid smoke and fire, the hail of 
 bullets and the blaze of batteries, the flash of sabres, and the 
 glitter of bayonets, the smell of blood, and the groans of the 
 dying. The Historian not possessing the colors of the pain- 
 ter cannot present the picture in detail. It took ^lessonier 
 fifteen years to paint his masterpiece, "Napoleon Reviewing 
 his Troops after the Battle of Friedland." 
 
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 It would re(iuire t!u' united effort of Raphael and Angelo 
 and Da Vinci, and Kaulbacli, a century, to portray the heroic 
 deeds of the soldiers of the Southern Contederacy. 
 
 A French mathematician has said, "if instead of water the 
 current of the river Seine were the blood of the slain in bat- 
 tle since the Trojan War, it would require tifty-four hours for 
 it to tlow by a given point on the river bank." 
 
 And yet we can number on our two hands, the military 
 heroes whose names live in hlistory. 
 
 We read of Ciesar in Gaul and Germany and on the banks 
 of the Adriatic, "trailing his legions as a torch trails smoke," 
 conquering Provinces and slauglitering two million peo- 
 ple, but we know nothing of the individuals who composed 
 his legions; their deeds went to make the name of— Ctesar. 
 Hannibal is known to the world, but the Carthagenian phal- 
 anxes slain at Cannse and under the walls of Rome, are — 
 shadows Fame carved but two names at Thermopyke — Le- 
 onidas and Xerxes. Napoleon was the genius of battle. 
 Europe was his chess board. Nations his pieces. But what 
 of the private soldiers of his grand armies? In the over- 
 powering brightness of his name, they are forgotten. Mas- 
 senna is famous because he commanded at the passage of the 
 Traun. Who thinks of the twel e thousand French veterans 
 slaughtered upon the bridge? Victor is renowed because 
 of the manner in which he covered the retreat of the Grand 
 Army from Russia. Who thinks of his sixteen thousand vet- 
 erans, whose dead liodies were revealed by the melting snow 
 hills, and the thawing Beresina? 
 
 With the utmost respect and admiration I bow to the 
 Confe'''e-ate Officer but I desire to emphasize the fact, that my 
 purpos- in ihese remarks is to pay tribute to the Confederate 
 Private, and special tribute to private Henry L. Wyatt 
 
 Duriog our late conflict, too often was the sentiment of 
 the famous war time poem realized: 
 
 "All quiet along the Potomac tonight 
 Except now and then, a stray picket 
 Is shot, as he walks his beat to and fro, 
 By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 
 Tis nothing — a private or two now and then 
 WiU not count in the news of the battle. 
 Not an officer lost — only one of the men 
 Moaning out all alone the death rattle." 
 
 A ylorious broiherhood that chivalric band, who for home 
 and honor stood a wall of fiie and steel for four years against 
 the onrushing millions of the North. 
 
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 "Wide sundered now. Ijy moii tain and l:iv stream 
 < »ni;r lircithcrs — still a lirotlR-rhcHid tlu-y scrm." 
 
 And to ill*- li<-r()es who survive, to whotxi tlie deadly b Het and 
 tlasl:ii)i:- sahce dul not com- to ta^e awey tlieir j>riceles.s lives, 
 though th y l)ared iheir brave tit-aits as a bulwark, I bow \o- 
 dav with tdt-rnal love and admira ion. 
 
 Toe tnajonty oi the ranK and HIh wi li no >-lave proper y 
 to protect with none ot the in^iLMda nd >dlorics of war bee •• on • 
 ing them on, endureinu; all things and fearing nothing; left al 
 they loved, and risked all they had. •"When ilie loud cry of 
 their hreatened Southland." t il on their ears. God has not 
 xua( e a greater, i obler, pure lieroe than, the private soldier 
 of tiie Confedera e Annies 
 
 ••( iidy a ]>ii\-atf to march and t<_) tit^ht 
 To suftl-i- and star\-L- and l)i- strong. 
 
 ( >nly a j)ri\-atL-. no rililion iir star 
 Shall gild witli false glory his name. 
 No honor for him in hraid or in l)ar 
 His Legion of Honor is oidv a scar. 
 And his \vounds arc his roll of fame. 
 
 Ordy a pri\-ate I one more here slain 
 
 Ua the field lies silent and chill 
 
 And in the far South, a wife jjravs in \'ain 
 
 One clasp of the hand she may ne'er clasp again 
 
 One kiss from the lips that are still. 
 
 Only a martyr! who fought and who fell 
 L'nknown and unmarked in the strife. 
 lUit still as he lies in lonely cell? 
 Angle and seraph the legend shall tell. 
 Such a death is etenif.l life." 
 
 A great military cri ic declares that th - "Infantry service 
 of the Confederate arm3' was the fines body of li^ht foot the 
 wo Id ever saw They possessed all the tenacitv in linn of the 
 Austran all tlie confidence in attact and self possessif)n in 
 defeat of the British, and all the d ring int:epiiity of the 
 French. ' 
 
 The Confederate skirmishers were the terror of the Fed- 
 eral Army but the p ide and glory of the Southern Army 
 was its matchless artillery arm. The world has never pro- 
 duced such a body as the renowned Artiller}' corps that w.s 
 wielded by that eminen; chieftain Major General Wm. H. 
 Pendleton 
 
 THE PANTHEON OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 And so, with uncovered head, and with profound admi- 
 ration and love, I pass bv to-day the Pantheon wherein a 
 grateful people treasures the memory of the great leaders of 
 tne Confederacy. 
 
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 Jeffe son Davi-; Pairiot, Stalesmnn. Soldier, who upheld 
 ihe fortunes of the Conf^d r cy. with his naatchle-s genius 
 as Hector apt e 'i those of Troy. Of whom Gei eral Grant said 
 jiftei the w .r, "he did as n)uch tor th*^ South as any one man 
 could t'ave done, and how much he did do, we ol the North 
 know better even than the S uih." 
 
 Robert Edward I^ee; the peerless soldier, whom Jackson 
 said he "would be willing to follow blindfold," and whom the 
 Military critics of Europe pronounced greater than Alexander, 
 Caesar or Napoleon, "and whose name is enshrined in the hearts 
 of the Southern people. 
 
 "Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright 
 Flashed the sword of Lee ; 
 Far in tlie front of the deadly fight. 
 High o'er the brave in the cause of right 
 Its stainless sheen like a beacon light 
 Led us to victory. 
 
 Out of its scabbard. Never hand 
 Waved sword from stain as free; 
 Nor PURER SWORD, led braver band. 
 Nor BRAVER bled for brighter land, 
 Nor brighter land had a cause as grand, 
 Nor cause a chief like Lee." 
 
 Albert Sidney Johnson; of whom General Taylor says, 
 "'he brought t) < ur armies a civil and military exp-rience sur- 
 passing that of any other leader. One snort hour of life 
 m<;re to him, would have given us Shiloh, and there would 
 have been no loss of Vicksburg and Donelson." He bled to 
 death in front of battle, fearing that his fall mignt demoral- 
 ize his troops Grand hero and martyr. If it were ever 
 possible for • ne man to save the Confederacy, she lost him 
 when Sidney Johnson fell on the field of Shiloh, Swinton 
 says, "he was the brightest star in the firmament of the 
 Southern Confederacy." 
 
 Stonewall JacKS n; whose fall shrouded the South in 
 sorrow, whose presence at Gettysburg General Lee said, 
 "would have given us a great victory." and whose bronze 
 statue in Richmond presented by English gentlemen speaks 
 the admiration of the world, for his sublime military and 
 moral character. 
 
 "His form has passed away 
 His voice is silent and still; 
 No more at the head of the " 'Old Brigade,' " 
 
 The DARING MEN whO were NEVER DISMAYED, 
 
 Will he lead them, to glory that can never fade — 
 " ' Stonewall ' '' of the iron will " 
 
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 Joseph E. Johnson; the beau ideal of a s )ldier, cf whom 
 General Grant said after the war, "I feared Joe Johnson 
 more than any other Confederate commander I ever had in 
 my front." 
 
 l>eaiuvo;nrd, the gTe;itest ruilitary enginef-r since Todlebeu, 
 the hero of ^ian'ij-sas, tli=* trusted and beloved soldier of the 
 South. 
 
 Jubal A Early; the intrepid Lie tenant of Lee, who 
 hung like a mi^ihty war clnud a'love the Federal Cipitol, and 
 carried con!-ternati<'n into the h-arts nf the North. 
 
 A. P. Hill; the chivalrie, c mmauderof the Light division. 
 
 Ewell, the blunt aud determined soldier, trained and 
 trusted by Jackson." I). H. Hdl, the brilliant commander. 
 Hood, the dashing aud indomi abl« Texan. 
 
 The magnificent au'l behived Pettigiew, whose ski 1 and 
 daring ma'le liim a name as immortal a- the stars. Th^ no- 
 ble Ashby, the gallant Pelhim, tlie brave Pender and Dan- 
 iels ami Br.nch,ihe superb llamseiir, :ind J. E. B. Stu irt 
 the oreate.--i cavalrv man,'' .-.s Ct neral Honker said, "yet horn 
 on this contine t " Yes, I pa<s this gl 'ions gahixy of patri. 
 ots and Officers u -day and place my tribute upon th^' humble 
 trrave of the meu, whos • patriotism, atience, endurance and he- 
 roism, find their best expression m the fame of the ^ reat lead- 
 ers, whose glory res'ed upon their bayonets. 
 
 Looking down the centuries, I see uo tigure comparable 
 with the soldier of the South, clad in the simple uniform of the 
 Confedera e Priva e, with the old slouch hat and glistening 
 bayonet. 
 
 HF.XKY L. WV.\TT. 
 
 "Their praise is liyniiiL^d liy loftier harjjs than mint-. 
 Yet One I would select from that jjroud throng, 
 Because his blood was first i:n)urL'd out gainst Noiihern wrong, 
 "And because he was of the bravest, and when shower'd 
 The death bolts deadliest, the thin ranks along. 
 Even amid the thickest of wars awful riot. 
 They reached no nobler breast than thine, young gallant Wyatt." 
 
 The Edgecombe Guards had the <listinciion of furnish- 
 ing th first soldier kilLd in our civil "War. 
 
 On t- e 10th ot June. 861, at Bi'j: Bethel. Virginia, a 
 regimeut(the First North Caiolina Voluntel-r^) of Confederate 
 tronps, command^ d by Colou'-l I) H. Hill, whiie expec t'i:gan 
 engagement, was halted within a few hundred yjirds ot an o:d 
 church situated between the two lines. In the church, a 
 detachment of North rn soldiers had concealed themseives 
 to fordly and maintain their position. 
 
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 Volnntters were ca!l<d for tr^ ij2;nit'^ the church in order 
 to drive the enemy from ihe sm nuhold. Those who volun- 
 teend to perform the perilous task were Henry L. Wyait 
 John H. Thorpe, Thomas Falhin and George T. Widiams, all 
 I) emhnrs of ti.e Edgecombe Guards 
 
 When within a !-hort distance • f the church, the enemy 
 began iinng upon them, and bra^-e Wyatt, the flr^t martyr, 
 was strick ti down, btirg mortally w- ui ded. Such bravery 
 as char icterized the action of these men on that occasion is 
 s Idotii exhibited. 
 
 The General A.-^sembly of Norih Carolina, at its session 
 in 18U1, as a 'oken of aptreciation "f the valorous deed of 
 Wyatt, had his photograph - nlarged -nd placed in the State 
 Lif-rary. 
 
 Of Henry Lunsford Wyatt, the first hero who fell in de- 
 fence of Southi-rn homes and Constitutional liberty, ani- 
 luated by unseltisb \ atriotism and splendid courage, but few 
 facts cau be recorded. He was so young, and so soou ottered 
 as a sacritice on the altar of Southern freedom. But while his 
 life is uD eventful prior to t e first battle of the war, his name 
 andmemory will live in the'^ hearts of his countrymen as long 
 as those of the great Commanders whose deeds illuminate the 
 ] ages of history. 
 
 It has often happened that one deed has made a man im- 
 mortal. 
 
 Publius Horatius holding the bridge against the whole 
 army of Porsena won fame that will live when the Coliseum 
 and the proudest monuments of Rome shall have crumbled into 
 dust. 
 
 Winkelreid, when he broke the front of the enemy by 
 throwing his body upon their spears, thus insuring Swiss inde 
 pendence, won fame as eternal as his own Alpine peaks 
 
 And when William Lunsford Wyatt gave his young life 
 for us at Bit.' Bethel, his name was surrounded by a halo of 
 glory, as lasting as the granite foundations of Virginia's moun- 
 tains, and the flow of her crystal rivers. 
 
 In the first years of this century the example of a private 
 soldier won a great vi tory for France on the plains of the 
 Danube. Ever afterward at the parade of b-s batallion the 
 name of Latourd' A uverg e was first called, when the oldest 
 Sergeant stepped to the front and answered. — "Died on the field 
 of honor.' 
 
 The example of William Lunsford Wyatt, thrilled and in- 
 spired every son of the South, and though his young body lay 
 dead, his brave sfirit yet lived in their heartsas an inspiration, 
 
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 as they strugj^^led on bloo ly fields, and charged the frowning 
 ramparts of the enemy. 
 
 Let his name forever hve. Let us teach it to our children 
 and wreath it with that sulime sentiment. "Died on the field of 
 honor and of duty." 
 
 The Peri stood at the gate of Heaven dis:'onsolate, listening 
 to sweet music within. The glorious angel who was kee|dng 
 v.he gate, beholding her weeping said: 
 
 ■■The I'<-ri yt.-t may 1 >e fc)^L;■i^•en, 
 Who lirings lo tin's eternal ;^ate 
 The C<\H that is most dear to Hea\'en 
 ("lO seek it and re<leem thy sin — 
 Tis sweet tu let the jjardoued in." 
 
 Through the Vniverse the I'eri seeks until now, hovering 
 o'er a battle plain, where Freedom and Tyrany contend, she 
 sees the tyrant conquers, the hero fall. 
 
 "Swiftly descetuling' on a ray 
 Of morning lii,dit, slie caught the last — 
 Last gk)rious drop his heart had shed. 
 Before his free — born sjiirit Hed. 
 
 Be this, she cried, as she wing-"d her flight 
 
 My welcome gift at the gates of light 
 
 For if there be on this earthly sphere 
 
 A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear 
 
 'Tis the last libation Liberty draws 
 
 From the heart that bleeds and breaks in hercause." 
 
 succKss IS NOT thb: tkst of merit. 
 
 Their cause was ho-t. But tlie exa t p e of their devotion 
 to principle is a priceless legacy to civihz4ion. Hi.-tory 
 teaches on many pages that success is not the test of honor 
 and merit. Wallace failed, bu time has not cahimniated his 
 name. Warren fel. fighting the fl) ' of Britain : t B.nker 
 Hi 1. but thn world ihinks none the le s of hi:i^. C'romweirs 
 is on'- of the brighust names in English History, though he 
 founded a Republic which soon sunk bene;ith the re-estab- 
 lished •hroue ot the Stuar's The name of Wash ngton is 
 st 11 uneclipsed save by that of Roben E Lee In no way 
 can we honor our heroes better, than by pri-sentiny 
 
 SOME GLIMPSES OF THE CONFEDERATES IX BATTLE. 
 
 A memb r of a New York Battery at '"Seven Pines" af- 
 terwardr- said: "Our shot lore their ranks wide open, and 
 scattered them ^sunder in a manner fiighttul to see But 
 they closed up ai once and came on steady > s Englisti vet^ r- 
 ans' When they got within four hundred yards, we closed 
 our case shot, and opened on them with canister, and such 
 
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 clestrucuDu 1 never witirssed before. Whole Companies 
 melted away like frost bribe that awful fire, but they clothed 
 up with an Oder and du-o pane th;.t was marvelous to be- 
 hold," 
 
 A Northern writer describing the Southern veterans at 
 Chancellorsville said, "The enemy could be seen swee-pinp; 
 slowly, bnt confidently forward, and n'" thing could excite 
 mi re admirati u than the manner in which they advanced 
 uion <he Federal lines. We say it reluctantly, and f r the 
 first time, that the Southerners ha e shown the finest qi:!al- 
 ities, and we acknowledge their superiority in the open field 
 to our men. They di-liverpd their fire \Yith j)recisinn, and 
 were inflexible, and immo» able, under the storm of shell and 
 shot that play<-d up n them" 
 
 A Federal veteran after the battle of Sharpsburg wrote 
 t) a Ncr hern jc-rnal, "It is beyond all w^ouder, how the 
 C tifeder te troops can fight as they do. That these ragged, 
 halfstn'>ed, sitk and miserable men, should prove su' h heroes, 
 is beyond all explanation. Soldiers never fought better." 
 
 After the bat'le of Chiokamauga the London Times said, 
 'The people of the Confederate States have made themselves 
 famous. If the renown of brilliant courage, SGern devotion to 
 a cause, and military a' heivements almost without parrallel, 
 ctn compensate men f r such toil and hardship as they have 
 endured, then the countrymen of Lee and .Ta^'ks >n, may be 
 consoled amid their suffering. From all parts of Europe, 
 from their enemies as well as friends, comes the tribute of ad- 
 miration." 
 
 At Cold Harboi", General Lee pausing a moment, and 
 listening to the long streaming roar in the woods, said to 
 Jackson, "That firing is very h'^a^y, do you think your men 
 can stand it '?" Jackson turning his head to one side, as was his 
 cust m, listened, and then said in his brief way, "They can stand 
 almost any thing, they can stafid that." 
 
 General ^NlcClellan declared that he had "prepared to 
 clothe ]Malvern Hill in sheets of flame " Every ravine swarm- 
 ed with his Infantry, and along every hill frowned his pow- 
 erful artil ery, with a clear play of twelve hundred yards, sup- 
 ported bv still heavier batteries and gunboats. Yet over this 
 plain scourged by grape and canister, the veterans of Huger 
 and Maeruder advanced as if to a banquet. 
 
 There was no heroism displayed by the English in storm- 
 ing the Great Redan, nor by the French m their a.^sault upon 
 the Malakoff, that surpassed the deeds of the "Boys in Grey," 
 
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 God bless ilicni, as thev rushed up the blood slippery slopes 
 ofiNIahern Hill. 
 
 After the battle of the Wild'-rness, General Lee iu his ad- 
 dress t ' his army said, "With heart felt ^ratitiratiou, the Gen- 
 eral commnndiijf?, expr sses to the army his sense of the heroic 
 conduct displayed by officers and men during the ardious 
 operations in whi h they hare just been engaged. 
 
 Under trying vicis-^itudes of heat and storm, you attacked 
 the enemy strongly entrenched, in the dei^ths of a tangled 
 wilderness, and aj^ain on the hills of Fredericksburg, and 
 by the ^ alor thnt h^H tri inn/ ilinj on .^a man;/ jii^h/s, for« ed him 
 on?e m- re to seek safety bey- nd the Rappahauock. W hile 
 this glorious ^ ictory entitles ^'ou to the gratitude and ] raise of 
 the nation, we are specially called upon to return our gr itef ul 
 thanks to the only giver of victo)y. 
 
 J^et us not forget in our rejoicing, the brave soldiers who 
 have fallen in defense of their country, and while we mourn 
 their loss, let us try to emulate their example. 
 
 After ill ^' B:ittlH of Malvern Hill, a Confederal soldier 
 was found <Uad lifiy yards i-i advance of any otticer orraan. 
 his musket lirinly i;rasp-d in the rigid lingers, name unknown, 
 simply ' "2nd Li " on his cap 
 
 Trivatt Birnes of Wilson Gouuty, 'it ilv bloody angle at 
 Gettysburg, advanced until all his color guard were shot 
 down aroui d him. and then rushing foiward f-11 mortally 
 woun ;ed and now fear, ng that the neloved colors might fall in- 
 to the hands of the enemy he tore theiu from i he stall' and 
 thrust them into his bo~om s aine t with thee imson lite tide 
 which gushed from his heroic heart. 
 
 And the Confederate soldier who fell nearest the Federal 
 Capitol during the w.ir was a private from the County of An- 
 son North Carolina 
 
 What spirit animated these heroes and Henry L. AVyatt 
 and their bre hren in arms? 
 
 A splendid manhood reared in a land of chivalay and 
 ticauty, inspired '>y loftiest principles, and a sublime patri- 
 otism 
 
 Nowhere was the heroism of the Southern soldier so re- 
 splendent and sublime, as in the trenches around Petersburg 
 during the death throes of the Confederacy; decimated to a 
 mere skel<^ton of the Grand Army once the pride and hope of 
 the South, the terror and dispair of the Norih, and the admira- 
 tion of the World — ragged, shoeless, starving, surrounded by 
 the massive concentric lines of the enemy perfectly equiped 
 with the world to draw on — their homes and loved ones at 
 
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 the mercy of the foe, conscious that mines were being slowly 
 opened at their very feet, to hurl them into t ternity, unable to 
 see a single star of hope th ough the cloud of despair that 
 hung like a pall about them — still they clung to the Stars and 
 Bars, shivered, and starved and sickened in those trench- 
 es, and walked those parapets with the same magnificent he- 
 roism and unconquerable spirit that had sna'ched victory 
 irom a hundred tire fringi d battlements, and crimson fields of 
 carnaize 
 
 No braver soldier drew sword in that titanic contest than 
 Major General R. F Hoke I cannot refrain from incorpor- 
 ting in these remarks his last words to his splendid com- 
 mand, for they constitute a glorious tri ute to the heroism of 
 the private soldier. 
 
 Farewell address of General Hoke. 
 
 Headquarters of Hoke's Division, near Greensboro, N. C, May 
 
 ist, ISG-'i. 
 Soldiers of my division; 
 
 On the eve of a long, perhaps a final separation, I ad- 
 dress to ynu :he last sad words of parting. 
 
 The fortunes of war ha^ e turned the scale against us. The 
 proud banners which you have waved so gloriously ov^r 
 many a fi-ld are to be turled at last. But they are not dis- 
 graced, mv comrads. Your indomitable courage, your heroic 
 fortitude your patience under sufferngs, have surrounded 
 them with a halo which future years can never dim. His- 
 tory will bear witness to your valor, and su cceeding genera- 
 tions will point with adrairaiion to your j^rand struggle for 
 constitutional freedom. 
 
 Soldiers, your past is full of glory. Treasure it in your 
 hearts. Remember each gory battle-field, each day of ■victory, 
 each bleeding comrad! 
 
 Think, then, of your home. 
 
 "Preedom's battle, once begun. 
 Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, 
 Though baffled oft, is ever won." 
 
 You have yielded to overwhelming forces, not fo superior 
 valor. You are paroled prisoners, not sla^ es. The love of lib- 
 erty which led you into he contest burns as brightly in vour 
 hearts as ever*. Cherish it. Associate it with the history of the 
 past. Transmit it to your children. Teach them the rights of 
 freedom and teach tnem to maintain them. Teach them the 
 proudest day in all your career was that on which you enlisted 
 as Southern soldiers entering that holy brotherhood whose ties 
 are now sealed by the blood of your compati"iots who have fallen 
 
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 and who>e bistory is coeval witli the brillinnt record of the 
 past four years. 
 
 iSoldiers, amid the imjierish^ble hiurels that surround your 
 brows, no brighter leaf adorns tljeiu than your connection with 
 the late A any of Northern Virginia! 
 
 The star that i^ilone with solendor (ner oft repeated 
 fields of victor^', over the two deadly struggles of '^ annssas 
 Plains, over Hichincnd, Chancellorsville and FredeTicksbijrg, 
 has sent its n.y and been reflecited where true courage is ad- 
 mired, or wherever freedom has a friend. That star has set in 
 blood, but yet in glory. That army is now of the past. The 
 banneis trail, but not with ignominy. Vo stain blots tlieir es- 
 cutcheons, "^o lilush can tinge your cheeks as you proudly 
 announce that you have a rart iu the history of the Army of 
 Northern Virginia. 
 
 My comrads, we liav3 borne together the same hardships; 
 we have shared together the same dangers; we have rejoiced 
 over the same victories. Your trials, yonr patience have ex- 
 cited sympathy aad admiration, and I have borne willing wit- 
 ness to your b, a^ ery and it is with a heart full of greatful emo- 
 tions for your services and ready obedient e that I take leave 
 of you. viay I he future of eai h one be as happy as your past 
 career has been biilhant, and may no cloud ever dim the bright- 
 ness of your fame. The past rises before me in its illimitable 
 grandeur. Its memories are i^art of the life of each one of us. 
 But it is all over now. Yet, though the sad dark ^eil of defeat 
 is over us, fear not the future, but meet it with manly hearts. 
 You carry to your homes the heartfelt wishes of your General 
 for your prosj^erit}'. 
 
 My comrads. farevv'ell ! 
 
 R. P. HOKE, :\ra,ior General. 
 
 W.VTFKLOO (iETTYSBlRC. 
 
 Hugo says of the charge of The Old (Juard at Waterloo, 
 "When the tall bear skins of the Grenadiers of the Guard, 
 with the large eagle device, appeared, .Nvmetrical in Jine, 
 and calm in the twilight of this tight, which was to annihilate 
 and immortalize them, the enemy felt a respect for France — 
 they fancied they saw twenty "victories entering the battle with 
 outstretched wings." 
 
 And when the chaiging column of Longstreet at Gettys- 
 burg, advanced slowly across that valley, m perfect order, with 
 their red battle Hags flying, and a forest of glitte ing steel 
 above their heads, closing up as the shflls tore great gaps in 
 their ranks, and then rushing hke a whirlwind of flame upon 
 
the Ff-ileial •^iiiis, iije (lii. !iiY f< It a ; (;.•; < (" tor the South Mid 
 tlir t'oiil'ed'-r.af soldiir 
 
 "At the brit-f command of Lee 
 Mo\-ecl out that matchless infantry. 
 With Pickett leading- grandly down, 
 To rush against the roaring crown 
 Of those dread heights of destiny. 
 
 "Ah ! how the withering tempest blew, 
 Against the front of Pettigrew. 
 A Kamsin wind that scorched and singed, 
 Like that terrific flame that fringed 
 The British Squares at Waterloo. 
 
 "Above the bayonets mixed and crossed, 
 Mill saw a Gray Gigantic Ghost 
 Receding through the battle smoke. 
 And heard across the tempest loud. 
 The death cry of a nation lost." 
 
 MEMORIES OE THE P.A.ST. 
 
 Some one hns aid 'hit "< h -ished memorinp ot th-^ pHst, 
 CO' stitnte the mord force of nations" 
 
 "When the R d Regiment of En'.di.sh Guards recoiled he- 
 fore The 01 Gunrd rit Wat- rloo, Wellington cri d "So diers 
 of Victoria, Tnllevera nnd Salamanca, Rememher Old Eng- 
 land." 
 
 The Souh is rich in rnemories. Let u~ teach them lo 
 onr < hil ren. And if-a' h them, thai ^Nlanass s was a great as 
 Marengo; Fredericksbu g a-^ great as Fiiediand; Shiloh ;)s 
 grea" ;is ''^aiacos-a; ihe "Wiht rness as great as Wagram; 
 Sharpsburg as s.:reat as Solferino, G-ttvsburg as great as 
 Gravelotte; and the bombardment and defense of Fort Fish- 
 er as great as that of Sebasterpool; and when they ask of 
 Eylau and Eckmuhl anil the gorious d eds of M rat, and 
 his siiver-br fsted c-irrassieurc', t^U them of L ngstreet, and 
 of Stuart, of Hampton aid Forest, otFitz Lpe, and Wheehr, of 
 Ashby and Ransom, of Barringer and Roberts, andofTour 
 own galLmt Roger Moore, whose courage I have seen tested 
 mid the leaden hail of death, and their veterans; and when 
 they ask of Nelso and Lawrenc ■, tell them of the nobJe 
 exploits of that superb nea-king. Semmes find the Al-ibama. 
 
 THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH NATIONAL UNITY. 
 
 Woul.i you tnow whence cantie the power of Rome? 
 When the terror-stricken inhabitants sought escape from 
 doomed Pompeii — at th^- city gate, they found the Roman 
 sentinel — ''there he stood, frect and motionless. The light- 
 ning fl.shed over his livid face and polished helmet, but his 
 
stern l'eatui>s were com. posed ' ven in their awe. Tljat terri- 
 V»le hour it-t If could not drivt- tli t instrument of imperial 
 Rone, the syu.bol (»f h* r jiower, tronj his post of duiy." 
 
 And wlien we of ht- South recall her con iti n after the 
 War. and iinii that Pho'nix like, she h^s aiisen fiom the 
 ashes of desola ion, and stands to-day panoplied in the pride 
 and })Ower of pri grrss s-^e }»in^ onwaid lo even greater pros- 
 p rity with such majesdc splendor that she has been cal.' d 
 the 'New South" wp know it is ' ecause h^r sonsand daughtens 
 have shown theiiiSelvt-s as heroic ui peace and prosperity, as 
 they weie when lowered the vv r clouii darkest. 
 
 But the e is no N-w South, save in the sense that she is 
 stepping moie swiftly a ong ihe pathway of civilization. She 
 is simply the I'rogrrssive Sou h, for bariing the issues settled 
 by the sword, she cherishes ev- ry memory and principle of 
 her splendid past. 
 
 The rijen of ihe South have no regrets to express for that 
 past, but holding to it as a sacred treasure, they d-dicate 
 themselves henceforth, to the perpeiuaiion and glorv of this 
 Union. When thev surrendered at Appomatox. they meant 
 that they would defend the Union, as they had defended 
 the Southern Conf deracy. 
 
 The men of the South a e glad to believe that thee 
 arp but fVw rabid oreaturea in ttie Norh from whose mouths 
 flows the froth of sectional madness. 
 
 In the presence of out sacred dead, and in the name of 
 Liberty and Union, we declare that the South is to-day, ani- 
 mated by the same spirit that moved Mr. Webs er to write 
 these grand words: 
 
 "L-t our patrio'ism be as broad as the land in which v\-e 
 live, and our aspirations as high s its c-rtain destiny. And 
 let us make our generation one of the brightest links in that 
 golden chain which is destined to grapple ihe people of all 
 the States, to the Constitution and the Union forever." 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 And now — Beauty, and Love, and Chivalry, will strew 
 sweet flowers: — 
 
 "On the graves of the heroes who died for us, 
 Who living were true and tried for us, 
 And in death sleep side by side for us. 
 That martyr band 
 That hallowed our land 
 With blood they poured in a tide for us. 
 
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 "Ah! fearless on many a day for us, 
 They stood in the front of the fray for us, 
 And held the foemen at bay for us; 
 Fresh tears should fall 
 Forever — o'er all 
 Who fell while wearing the gray for us." 
 
 "And their deeds — proud deeds shall remain for us, 
 And their names — dear names without stain for us, 
 And the glories they won shall not wane for us. 
 In legend and lay 
 Our heroes in gray 
 Though dead — shall live over again for us." 
 
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 FC^RUSEONLYIN 
 THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION