- Title
- Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 [v.1]
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- Date
- 1901
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- Creator
- ["Clark, Walter, 1846-1924."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 [v.1]
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THIRD REGIMENT.
BY
JOHN COWAN, Captain Company D.
JAMES I. METTS, Captain Company G.
The Third North Carolina Infantry, like all of the other regi¬
ments sent by North Carolina to the field in the late civil war,
wrote for itself and the people from whom it came, upon
the field, retrieving lost but perilous positions in battle, in the
bivouac, upon the march, as well as in its number of slain and
wounded, a history, which hitherto locked tip in the memory of its
members, remains as yet, a score and a half of years since the
eventful Appomattox, to be recited.
A proud boast it is of the sons of the “Old North State” that
they are not trumpeters of their own achievements, whether in
the fornm, in legislative hall, or upon the field of battle; and
who can gainsay, since the colonization of the area which is
now bounded by the State lines of North Carolina, that they
have stood the peers of any with whom they came in contact?
So especially did the spirit of Christian charity, “in honor pre¬
ferring one another,” inspire her soldiers from 1861 to 1865.
Fired by an emulative zeal to attain nnto the highest perfection
of duty, they recognized the common cause of all Confederate
soldiers. They were so imbued with that spirit of magnanimity,
that rather than pluck one laurel from the crown which adorned
the brow of their fellow-soldiers, they vied with each other in
adding to that emblem of triumph.
So, the history of one regiment of North Carolina Troops is
the history of another, save in the details which mark their
respective achievements in the different spheres in which fortune
called them to move. If encomiums of commanders, congrat-
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