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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Tarheels' thin Gray line. (search)
ulty under fire distinguished Colonel Blacknall, even among Confederate officers, where the standard of manhood was as high as the world has seen. It is to be doubted if any officer of like rank in Lee's army had in greater measure the love and confidence of the private soldier. Handsome, eloquent, intellectual, gifted with singular charm of manner, and beloved by all men because his heart was as big as humanity, he has been termed by a comrade who knew him well in all the trying vicissitudes of a soldier's life, as the ideal Confederate officer, and by another, as one of the most chivalrous men he ever knew. And to this we may add, in the words of the great English poet: His life was gentle; and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, This was a man. The story of the Tarheels' thin gray line should be published in pamphlet form and placed in the hands of each and every North Carolina schoolboy. R. D. Stewart. November 300th.