Identifier: 01300611.3317.emory.edu
Title: Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 (electronic resource)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Clark, Walter, 1846-1924, ed
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Publisher: Raleigh : E.M. Uzzell, printer
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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re so young, so gallant, and so true. Whetherlike young Denmark, with naked, bleeding feet, they weremarching into battle against Grants veterans in Virginia, orfever-stricken in a wayside hospital, are babbling o greenfields or sinking into the unconscious sleep that presagesdeath, they kept their courage to the end. Their actions Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 596 North Carolina Troops, 1861-65. I want no higher distinction than to be deemed worthy todo honor to the memories of my dead comrades, when, Without sword or flag, and with soundless tread,We muster once more our deathless dead,Out of each lonely grave. Heroes of unwritten story, young soldiers of the Con-federacy, worthy to take their place in history beside theNorth Carolinians who bore the Southern Cross up thedeadly slopes of Malvern Hill, or those who fell fightingwithin the Federal lines upon the fatal Cemetery Ridge, allhonor to the North Carolina Junior Reserves! Fabius H. Busbee.Raleigh, N. C, 26 April, 1901.
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