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NUMBER f\t\D LOSSES OF fiORTH
CAROLINA TROOPS. .
By CAPT. S. a. ASHE.
Although North Carolina had not been favorable to Seces-sion
at an early stage of the troubles between the N'orth and
South, yet when the fight came on, her contributions to the
Southern Cause were more important than those of any other
State. Alone of all her sister States, she made importations
of supplies from abroad that were of great consequence.
During the Kevolutionary War, she had employed a Board of
Officers to collect and export produce and to import neces-saries
and munitions; and in 1861, history repeated itself,
and she early made a large appropriation to purchase supplies
abroad, and later under Gov. Vance's administration, she
bought a fast vessel and imported large quantites of mill sup-plies,
60,000 pairs of hand cards, 10,000 grain scythes, shoes
and leather for shoes equal to 250,000 pairs, 50,000 blankets,
grey woolen cloth for 250,000 uniforms, 12,000 overcoats,
$50,000 gold value of medicines and many other supplies.
As the shoes, blankets and clothing were- more than sufficient
for the use of her own troops, large quantites of them were
turned over to the Confederate Government for the troops
of other States. The wisdom of the Xorth Carolina states-men
made them provident for the supply of the Army; and
in like manner, their spirit and zeal led them to cooperate
with the Confederate Government in the enforcement of the
conscript act to an extent beyond what obtained elsewhere.
In no other State was the conscript act enforced so thoroughl;^
as in North Carolina, the State authorities aiding in its en-forcement.
The contribution of the State in soldiers was indeed re-markable,
and in losses she suffered much more than any
other State.
Major-General R. C. Gatlin, who had been a distinguished
officer of the U. S. Afrmy, while Adjutant General of the
State of North Carolina, on May 16, 1864, reported "that
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