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410 LiTKKAl.'V AM) lIlSlOiacjAJ. ACT1\"1T1HS
NORTH CAROLINA IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.*
Upon the iiiniiuiiiciit wliidi this State has erected at the
west front of the Ca})iti)l in llaleigh in perpetual memory of
the fidelity to duty of the sons she sent to the front in
1861-'65 is inscribed the legenel—
"First at Bethel,
Last at Appo^mattox."
Upon the coyer of the fiye volumes of ''^orth Carolina
Regimental Histories 1861-'65" ^vhich, compiled by veterans
who were actual participants in the events they narrated,
have been published and issued by authority of the State,
there are stamped the above words, with the insertion be-tween
the first and last lines of the following:
"Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg and at
ChickAMAUGA."
These claims were not made as a matter of boast. Tliey
were merely a statement of historical facts, amply supported
l)v tlic testiuKiiiv of eve-witnesses and documentary evidence
contained in the volumes in (picstidu. There was no inten-tion
to assert that the soldiers fri>ui Xorth Carolina were
braver lliau those from niir sistci- SDUthcni States, 1)ut
merely that, the fdi'tmic nl' war ha\'inii' funiislu'd ihciii the
occasiiiu, they were cijiki!
la llic (ijipDr/ ii in/ 1/—iiul\- this, nuil
uotliiiiu- more.
"'I'licy s;i\v tiicir duty, a ilrnd-sin'c tiiinu'.
And went fur i(, tln'ii mid Ihur."
• Report of committee appointed by the State Literary and Historical Association,
November 12. 1903.
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