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Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
s from her ranks, it will be admitted, I trust, that we have a right to be proud that we are thus vindicated by the facts and figures. Surely no portion of the Southern people can show a brighter record, a nobler devotion to good faith and order. So great was the prevalence of this unjust impression, that North Carolina could be easily detached from her duty to her confederates, that it seems there were some who presumed upon it for important purposes. Soon after the failure of the Fortress Monroe or Hampton Roads Conference, I was visited by Governor Graham (whose death we so recently deplore), who was then a Senator of the Confederate States. After giving all the particulars of that Conference which had not appeared in the papers, and the prevailing impressions of Congressional circles about Richmond, etc., he informed me that a number of leading gentlemen there, despairing of obtaining peace through Mr. Davis, and believing the end inevitable and not distant, had requested h
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
n North Carolina concerning the most eventful period in our annals of two hundred and ninety years. It may be said that there were only eleven States wholly committed to the late war—Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri were only partially engaged, the great majority of their people remaining with the Union. Of these eleven, North Carolina occupied the following position aly captured on her twelfth trip, going out, by reason of unfit coal. She usually brought in enough Welsh coal, which being anthracite, made no smoke, to run her out again, but on this occasion she was compelled to give her supply to the cruiser Alabama, which was then in port, and to run out with North Carolina bituminous coal, which choked her flues, diminished her steam, and left a black column of smoke in her wake, by which she was easily followed and finally overtaken. In addition to th
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
either of which facts would be so much as suspected by reading the popular histories of those compaigns. Dead men do tell tales, and tales which cannot be disputed. Almost the only commands in Lee's army which were intact and serviceable at Appomattox, were North Carolina brigades, and the statement is made, and so far as I know without contradiction, that she surrendered twice as many muskets as any other State. At Greensboroa, too, Hoke's division, containing three brigades of North Carolby present oppressions, which they feel. Had a tenth of the outrages perpetrated since the war been inflicted upon us, or even attempted, before a blow had been stricken, there would have been no flagging of popular enthusiasm, no desertion, no Appomattox, no military satrapies instead of States under the Constitution. In the second place, the war once begun, our leaders either did not grasp the magnitude of the struggle, or, with an unwise want of candor, concealed it as much as possible from
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
troops in the Confederate service was 600,000, of which North Carolina furnished largely more than one-sixth; one tenth would have been about her share. Her total white population was in 1860, 629,942; of this she sent to the army more than one man to every six souls! How they demeaned themselves in the field the bloody records of killed and wounded in all the great battles of the war bear melancholy testimony. In many of the severe conflicts on the soil of Virginia—notably in that of Fredericksburg—a large majority of the casualties of the whole army were in the North Carolina troops, as appeared by the reports in the Richmond papers at that time. One regiment, the Twenty sixth North Carolina, at the battle of Gettysburg, which went in nine-hundred rank and file, came out with but little over one hundred men fit for duty. They lost no prisoners. One company, eighty-four strong, made the unprecedented report that every man and officer in it was hit, and the orderly sergeant who m
White Sulphur Springs, Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
Address delivered by Governor Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina, before the Southern Historical Society, at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, August 18th. 1875. [This address of the distinguished War Governor of North Carolina should have been published in the earlier issues of our papers, but for our failure to secure the manuscript. We give it now as the utterances of an able and patriotic actor in the great drama, without, of course, endorsing all of its statements and opinions.] In consenting to accept the invitation of your Society to deliver an address to this meeting, I have thought I could not do better than to give you such information as I could gather in regard to North Carolina and the great struggle between constitutional principles and a physical Union. If in doing so, I shall appear somewhat in the character of a champion of my own State, I yet hope to be pardoned, both because such a position is not unbecoming a true son of the soil, and because it is almo
Glasgow, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
n of quantities of card clothing, belting and lubricating oils, which kept all the factories going till the end. An abundant supply of cotton goods, and a full supply for the people, and a partial one for the army, of woollen, being thus provided, the remaining quota of woollen goods and leather findings were sought for abroad. By means of warrants based upon cotton and naval stores, an elegant long legged steamer was purchased in the Clyde She was built for a passenger boat to ply between Glasgow and Dublin, and was remarkably swift. Captain Crossan, who purchased her in connection with my financial agent, Mr. John White, ran her in at Wilmington with a full cargo in 1863, changed her name from Lord Clyde to the Ad-Vance. When her elegant saloons and passenger arrangements were cut away, she could carry with ease eight hundred bales of cotton and a double supply of coal. As cotton was worth in Liverpool then about fifty cents in gold, the facilities for purchasing abroad whatever
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
esigned to serve some great and wise State policy, though exactly what it was, beyond the pleasure of irritating and disobliging our people, I have never been able to see. But so it is; we are utterly without official records in North Carolina concerning the most eventful period in our annals of two hundred and ninety years. It may be said that there were only eleven States wholly committed to the late war—Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri were only partially engaged, the great majority of their people remaining with the Union. Of these eleven, North Carolina occupied the following position at the beginning of the war: In extent of territory she was the seventh; in total population she was the fifth; in white population the third—Virginia and Tennessee only exceeding her; in wealth she was the seventh; in the value of all farm products the fourth; in the produ
Childsburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
d him to say to those gentlemen, with my compliments, that in the mountains where I was raised, when a man was whipped he had to do his own hollowing; that the technical word enough, could not be cried by proxy. This piece of secret history will serve to show that there was a faintness of heart and a smiting together of knees in other parts of the South outside of North Carolina. Note.—Since the synopsis of this was published, I have received a letter from an esteemed friend in Hillsboro, North Carolina, who says he had a conversation with Governor Graham on the same subject, and that his recollection is that the proposition made to me was that I should take steps to withdraw the North Carolina troops from General Lee's army, which would force him to surrender and thus end the war. It may be that my friend's recollection is correct. I am quite sure, however, that substantially I was requested to take separate and independent action to end the contest, and I do not regard the diff
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
e that, owing to the reluctance with which North Carolina went into the secession movement, and becawholly committed to the late war—Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabamathat, so far as I have been able to learn, North Carolina furnished more soldiers in proportion to we's division, containing three brigades of North Carolina troops, in splendid condition and efficienke, and the black alluvial lowlands of Eastern North Carolina, will recognize what they can do in thh a city! Such were the efforts made in North Carolina, public and private, to avert the calamiti the comparatively great efficiency of the North Carolina troops to these efforts. In my opinion throm many districts-county sub-divisions—in North Carolina, I had, during 1864, petitions signed by whim to visit me and urge me as Governor of North Carolina, to take steps for making separate terms w of the fight and reflected so severely on North Carolina for her tardiness, should undertake to mak[27 more...]<
Halifax, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
full cargo in 1863, changed her name from Lord Clyde to the Ad-Vance. When her elegant saloons and passenger arrangements were cut away, she could carry with ease eight hundred bales of cotton and a double supply of coal. As cotton was worth in Liverpool then about fifty cents in gold, the facilities for purchasing abroad whatever we desired are apparent. Before the port of Wilmington fell this good vessel had successfully, and without accident, made eleven trips to Nassau, Bermuda, and Halifax through the Federal fleet, often coming through in open day. Captain Thomas Crossan, Captain Julius Guthrie, North Carolinians, and Captain Wylie, a Scotchman, were her successive commanders. By reason of the abstraction or destruction of the Adjutant-General's record, as before remarked, I am unable to give an exact manifest of her several inward cargoes, but the following will give an idea of them Large quantities of machinery supplies, sixty thousand pairs of hand cards, ten thousand gr
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