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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.3 (search)
Address of Gen. R. E. Colston.
Before the Ladies' Memorial Association, at Wilmington, N. C., May 10, 1870.
Preliminary note.
This address was delivered nearly twenty four years ago when military rule and carpet-bag governments were still prevailing over the South, causing more bitter feeling than even the war itself.
Since then, almost a quarter of a century has elapsed and has taught salutary lessons.
We had already appreciated the value of the Northern soldiers, and we now u we acted our part honorably and gloriously; and now, looking to the future and realizing the magnificent destiny placed before us and our children as one people, with one country and one flag, we accept the verdict of Fate and say: It is well R. E. Colston.
The accomplished gentleman and soldier, the author of this address, is to-day stretched upon a bed of pain, where he faces the inroads of disease, and the approach of the last enemy, with a gentle chivalry and heroic firmness, which might
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)