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! r r , ill,,)!'' i. ' J J ! ' f JjVili' ! ' r !! V -li M : ti 5TIIK0IiTIICAE0LimCAVALRY A ErZABSABLK BOUT OF riOHTXES. QoL Paal B. Bwu Wflue et th AchUve- aunts tad Incidents of Ola BeglaMot la tb;att WtN-tb Composing the : riftk Caralry Daring All Thelt sendee Vm Hal Gellty ef Breach of DlMlpUn gerioes Enough te be Bessessaered ' V hQ Organised m "Partlsaa lum" They Boob Became Regular Cewlry ui Old VaUaat Service Bath M MoU4 Btsa , and Waaa Barring as Iota ntry-ATribolc u .ledge Wait Clark. The Fifth North Carolina Cavalry was a superb regiment In every respect It was competed of representative men, mostly active. Intelligent young men, from the counties of Cumberland, Le nolr and Qreerie, Sampson, . Rocking ham. Chatham, Mecklenburg, Davie, Guilford. Randolph, Lincoln, Catawba. Cabarrus and a few other counties, The moral character of this great body of men was -remarkable. AfteY diligent enquiry, there ten-' a tingle of-. , fenss of any sort, done In camp or else where by any man of the regiment dur Ing the entlr war, which survivors of the regiment now remember. Of course minor offenses were doubtless done, but none grave enough to be remembered to-day. : And this Is stated and y em phaslzed because. Jtere cAa beJOutrue courage without moral character as Its basts. Such courage Is of the soul. , It is a purely psychological phenome . non. The soul Is of God and can't as sert Itself fully m an Immoral person, ' And when the soul is not on guard, not supreme, we are all cowards at heart in - the face of any great and recognised ; danger. And then, like any other sim ple animal, under trying test, we will run, unless somebody else's soul re strains us or our own rallies us. In camp, on the march and on picket every duty was well done. In battle, whether fighting on foot,; as infantry, ' or in the mounted charge, there never were any better troops. ; The First JNortb; Carolina Cavalry had a greater give a very vivid picture of the achieve ments of the North Carolina Cavalry. People wonder that the cavalry ac complished so much, , And It merely af forded me great pleasure to see my comrades In arms so fully and ably vindicated. Col. Means, though a mere partisan rangers, we became parts of regiments of regular troopa. The com panics or wbarton, Buoe and Rankin were assigned to Colonel Evans regi ments and Faucett to Colonel Ferre- bee's." , " ' On page 1252 of series 1. vol. S3, "Of- boy when he volunteered, was allotted,! Ikial Records of the Union and Confed- ' reputation than the Second, the Third, and the Fifth cavalry, wwen, wun , constituted th North Carolina Cavalry Brigade, in . thelast years of the war. .'. But this was because of ,. the longer service of the First in Virginia and be cause of some' peculiar advantages to It In Its earliest, ( dashing, Murat-like field and other Officers and especially because of Its opportunities for - fame " ; ahead of the other regiments. But the Fifth was actually just as good as the First in every way and either regiment ef the brigade was worthy to ride in the front rank of "The Old Guard" In ; a charge or fight, dismounted, side by side with the best British Infantry of , to-day. The First, fortunately for it- self, simply won its great fame earllr est and most worthily maintained it to the end. And the officers of the First have most beautifully and harmonious ly vied with each other In perpetuating . that fame, as, can readily be seen by ' reading .Its splendid history in the ' ' first one Of these volumes. I wish that In North Carolina's "Temple of Fame" there were such glorious paintings, de servedly glorious paintings, of each - regiment of our great cavalry hjlgade " as the officers of the First have, In unl- son made for ltl where, Aeneas-like. , the children of the immortal men of ; ' that brigade," regardless of regiments, together could stand and say: Of all ' these glories our fathers were "a great part." And" It painfully hurts me that " I can't , make such a painting for the . Fifth North Carolina Cavalry. " THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS PA- "' It i based largely on the printed reports of .Confederate and Federal . cavalry officers in that great work pub- . Ilahed by the United States government and entitled ''War of the Rebellion. Of . flcial Records of the Union and Con v federate Armies." To the volumes of which I will sometimes refer by their aerial number thus: No. so and so, p. so and so. And every Confederate soldier and their children for all time should ever be grateful to the United States for the publication of-those "records," They make complete and eternal the fame of our dead Confederacy as nothing else could. And when, In the distant future, , far from the sbund of the guns and un touched by any of the feelings of our war. the great, cool, philosophical his torian, whom God shall give this be loved republic, under the guidance ot the "spirit of truth" and seeking the truth and the truth alone for the love " " of . truth, shall have given his entire life to a careful examination and study of those great volumes and shall have . fully and faithfully done his work, as ; he will, it will stand high above all the ' monuments of earth, shining with the splendors and glories of the South as the admiration of all ages and the V stigma ot "rebellion" all forever gone ' under the God-given light of truth. 1. 1 have recently visited and talked wth every member of the regiment I cquld reach and taken down, In their r' presence, their memories. I have wrlt- - t ten to many others whom I could not see and asked their memories. 8ome have most kindly and generously helped me and some have not. And " " where any deserved mention of the reg- Iment or any member of it' is not made - 1 ,1 am not responsible. I didn't see It all and could not remember It If I had. But I did my best to get personal incl . dents especially.. , , ' S, As a courier at headquarters of . the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade, I had a large scops ot observation and I used It In this capacity I had the very best opportunities to compare and to my headquarters after som service as a private in the Fifth Cavalry Regi ment and bore a gallant and conspicu ous Dart In most of the movements re counted and he 4oes but Justice to tho North Carolina troops when he claims for the North Carolina Cavalry Brig ade a herolo place In the glorious rec ord of th Army of Northern Virginia, Respectfully and truly your. RUFUS BARRINGER. Brig. Gen. N. C. Cavalry. After acknowledging to I tha editor "copies of The Concord Sun containing sketches of the North Carolina Cat airy Brigade" Colonel W. H, Cheek, In part, wrote thus: -: These articles I have read with much Interest, and I am glad to see that some of the daring deeds of that brave command are being put In print and transmitted to posterity, If thor ough discipline, cool courage, dash and reckless daring are qualities that adorn and beautify the name of soldier, then this North Carolina Cavalry Brigade and especially the First North Carolina Regiment has a rich legacy of fame to bequeath to coming generations. ; 'Of -thfr-eorrectness -of -your-iorre spondent as to tho part taken by the several regiments composing (he brig ade in the different engagements ne ae scribes, I suppose and believe that in the main he is generally correct" Of course you couldn't" get any offi cer or man of the First to praise the brigade Without his giving a special tribute of his love to the First. No more than you could get an officer or man of tho "Tenth Legion" to praise the then conquering forces of the world without his saying just a little more for that wonderful legion than he could for alLthe armies of ..Rome. But It Is a beautiful and pardonable pride which every officer and man of the other three "regiments' saluted ai : the "Old First" passes In review. A JUST TRIBUTE TO HON. WALTER -WALTER CLA.RKT It is presumed that the readers of these volumes entitled "North Carolina Regiments 1861-'65" will be intelligent investigators of history. All such will want to know each writer's authority for his statements. I have, therefore, given mine, and in preparing this pa per on this basis, my highest aim has beeh to follow the direction of Judge Clark as to accuracy. On the 8th of August 1001, Hon. Wal ter Clark wrote me about this paper. "Be sure your history Is accurate and reads well afterwards." By which, of course, he meant sacrifice style and everything to truth. I answered him August 9th: "You struck the keynote of my whole purpose In your word about accuracy. "I prove all things." And It is but .right in telling the truth to inscribe here a passing tribute to Walter Clark. He conceived the idea of this history of North Carolin ians by North Carolinians for the world, while the actors were living to verify it And by him alone the idea has been pressed to its perfection. I mean Just what is written. That but for his prime move, his insistent untiring ef forts and labor, his persistent work with the writers and his inspiration among them and his other co-workers after the start these volumes would never havo been printed. In thlr be half he has written nearly 5,000 letters at his own cost of time and money, be sides the great tax on , his Individual time and brain in editing alone the en tire work, which has required him per sonally to read over every manuscript in these four volumes and to correct them where necessary and to read over twice every proof of them that has been made. The regimental histories have, of course, all been given free as a labor of love, the pictures are all paid for by each individual In the collecting of which he has worked Incessantly and the State has paid only for the pa per, prfntlng and binding. And with out Walter Clark's work the State would never have done this. For seven long, weary years he has labored, with this pittance from our State, that the great deeds of North Carolinians might be written as they were done in true North Carolina style. It has been a great worlfof loyal love on his part and posterity should know It Every Con federate soldier and soldier's child, down the generations should salute Walter Clark. He knows absolutely nothing of my writing this and will not till he sees it In print in The Charlotte Dally Obser ver, and I insist as one Confederal soldier to another engaged In our last earthly work tosrether with and for "the boys In gray," that, as editor, he let this tablet stand untouched. THE REGIMENT ORGANIZED AS REGULAR CAVALRY. All the companies,, of the regiment and the names ot their officers and men are given with some accuracy In Moore's "Roster of North Carolina Troops," volume 4, beginning at pae 21 under the title of the ."Sixty-third Regiment" A- perfect- roster of all North Carolina regiments Is being pre pared by the United Confederate Vet erans of North Carolina through Dr. B. F. Dixon, now State Auditor. To that I refer the reader for Information about companies, without attempting it here from imperfect data. There was an act of the Confederate Congress, approved April 21, 1862, "to organize bands of Partisan Rangers." erate Armies," serial No, CO, General 11. E. Lee, In writing to Ueneral Coop er, adjutant and Inspector genera), uo de date of April 1. 1X64, eays: . ' . "Your circular of March 23rd with reference to partisan rangers has been received. The organisations of parti san rangers with this army are the Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Cav alry," etc. "Of these, the Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Regiments have been serving as regular cavalry, and will come under act No, lit, published In General Orders No. 29, adjutant and Inspector general's office, current se ries, being continued In their present organisation aa regular cavalry," And in the same paper General Lee thus ex presses his opinion of partisan rangers: . "Experience ha convinced ma that It Is almost-Impossible, under the best officers even, to have discipline In these bands of partisan rangers, or to pro vent them from becoming an Injury in stead ot a benefit to the service," . Hereafter these volumes ot the irWar of the Ktbellon" will be referred, to Just" as aerial number so and so. On page m, serial No. 129, is found that part -of -"General-OrdersrNor " referred to by General Lee. It there by, appears ha,t the partisan rangers act of April 21, IMS, was repealed Feb ruary 17, 1864, and that all so-called partisan rangers "acting as regular cavalry shall be continued in their present organizations and shall hereaf ter be considered as regular . cavalry and not as partisan rangers." . Thus, while tho name of their enlist ment seems to have attached for some time to the Fifth North Carolina Cav alry, aa partisan rangers, according to Captain Rankin and the record, they were in fact always "regular cavalry" and thus freed from the HI repute giv en partisan rangers by General lrfei -Thts organisation of the regiment oc curred at Garysburg in August, 1862, with Peter Q. Evans as colonel; Ste phen B. Evans, lieutenant colonel; James T HT McNeill," maJorrJ7 Turner Morehead, adjutant, and Charles Haigh, sergeant major, and, shortly after the 10th of October, 1S62, this regiment be came a part of General Beverly H.Rob ertson's Cavalry Brigade at Garys burg, In accordance with orders on page 823, Serial No. 40. SERVICES IN NdRTH CAROLINA. The regiment did duty In-- eastern North Carolina until May. 1863, when It joined the Army, of Northern Virginia. General Robertson was " good organ izer and Instructor," as General R. E. Lee, himself, terms him In serial No. 25, p. 1088. And under his Instruction and West Point discipline the regiment was well drilled in cavalry tactics, per fected in picket duty on outposts and trained in other elements of its future greatness and was also In action in North Carolina. : THE FIGHT AT PLYMOUTH. This was a very successful and Under this act some of the companies ludc the regiments of this brigade In of the Fifth North Carolina Cavalry their camps, and oh their marches and I enlisted. Captain N. P. Rankin,- ot especially as I rode, with orders, along their lines of battle. My judgment o . . - ths regiments of the brigade is, there-1 . , fore, the result of careful comparison. - without which no Judgment Is good. ' . '4. And it Is also based i on ; printed 'Sketches of th .North Carolina Cav alry Brigade," which I published la The Concord Bun m 1881 from J'fuU " ' , -notes and official reports," made con- femporaneousiy with - the ' events." Of these sketches General Baninger and . Colonel Cheek,, colonel of the First ' TWorth Carolina Cavalry, both wrote as follows to the editor of The Sun, at v " the time of their publication: General Barrlngw wrote thus: -- " i. Charlotte, N. C. May IV I88l.v KrY.Wade H. Harris, Editor of 4 ..- Sun. Concord. N. C ' 'I Dear ' Sir: I have . read with very , irreat interest "Sketches of tho North , Carolina Cavalry Brigade, by Colonel ' P. B. Means; and I have often been - asked If these articles give authentic reports of the operations of my old 1 command. I ant able to state unheal . v tatlngly that they do. I happen to know . 'i that Colonel' Means has In his posses . skm full notes fcnd official - reports of 1 nearly all the actions and Incidents al " luded to, and I think ha has used his -material wisely 1 and Impartially, Ot . s courso In mere "sketches" Hhert must be many omissions: and yet Colonel A Company I, in a sketch of this regl ment, published in The Franklin Press, Macon county, N. C, August 29th and September 12, 1900, says this about Its organisation: "Major White, a Virginian, connect ed with the ordnance department at Seensboro, ; received . authority from e Secretary of War to raise ; a bat talion -of mounted men to be known aa 'partisan rangers,' W operate under 'Stonewall' Jackson In the Valley of Virginia. Four companies were thus enlisted three In tho county of Guil ford, to-wit: Wharton's. Faucett's and Rankin's, and one in Davie county, Captain Booe's. In August I think, these companies 'were mustered Into service, and soon ' afterward orders to report to General Robertson y at Garysburg, near Weldon, N. C, were received. My own and captain Booe's companies moved promptly and reported- to General Robertson as ordered, the other two companies roiiowlng a few-days later.- On our-arrival it was learned that a regiment was to be formed by uniting our battalion . and that of Major Evans, who had a simi lar organisation In the eastern-part of 1 State, In fact' other detachments were ordered to this point sufficient to form two regiments, afterwards com manded respectively by Colonels Evans and Ferrebee, composing Robertson's in some respects peculiar and amusing affair. The attack, well premeditated, occurred between 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning of December 10, 1862. Lieu tenant Colonel Jno. C. Lamb, ot, the Seventeenth North Carolina Infantry, was in command of all the forces and Lieutenant Colonel g, C.Evans of that parToTThe Fifth Cavalry which was present, , Most of the pickets were cap tured and the cavalry went upon the town with a rush In the face of volleys from the Federal infantry who quick ly broke In all directions and took ref uge m and behind the court house. The gunboat Southileld was In the river In rear of the town and before and after she was disabled kept up a "brisk fir ing" with her guns. She was shot "through the boiler" at the third Are of our artillery and then drifted. Cap tain Galloway, of the Fifth Cavalry, was wounded and six men. The de moralization of the enemy was com plete and their official reports of the affair, serial No. 26, p. 45-49,' are ridic ulous and pitiful. They all bear evi dence of terrible fright. The com mandant of the port Captain Ewer, at 7 p. m. December 11th, says: "All this day they have been stationed outside ot the own." But they couldn't attack, the health of his men being seriously affected by guard and picket duty. And Lieutenant Mizell. on December 16th, says that "he resumed his seat fot the purpose of reporting the attack," and that he "heard they had four wag on loads of killed and wounded." "The best and most principal part of . the town -arc burrteJup, The families ot our men are left without a change of clothing. We have lost all our books. pay and mufter rolls, a quantity of clothing belonging to tho men and some 'ammunition. I believe I have given all ths particulars that I can think of." Lieutenant Husser, a brave man of the United States gunboat Per ry, to whom all the reports were re ferred for Information,; says that he found Ewer on the Bouthneld a mile and a half down the river, didn't know where his men were but "hoped most of them were Inr the swamp. Thai is were not captured; that as "soon as the Southfield fell back (which she ought maybe not to have done) Ewer got frightened, left his men and went on board. The whole affair was disgraceful.-The peculiar part of this fight was attacking a gunboat with cavalry. It was done enly three times during the war July 9, uez, . when that great North Carolinian, then Captain A. B. Andrew.!, of tho First Cavalry, . at tacked this same Lieutenant Husser and commends him for great courage. In his contribution to Colonel Cheek's history of the First' In this action and May 24, 1861, 'when Fits Lee fought gunboats at Klnnon's Landing on the James. , my'B artUWy. A few wets killed and a number wound. Roth officers and men behaved admirably," To show the discipline of the officers and men at this time, by a small mat ter full of meaning, as th line ot the Fifth Cavahy marched to thw front In almost perfect alignment and order, wth Colonel Kvana In. the centre and lead ne Biruca tne middle edge or a lake of water -about one-third of the regiment's length in width and about three feet deep. Colonel ? Evans inarched right . through tho , lake Atralgul to the front and every man on whose part cf the line that water was did tho same.. Older soldiers, with more experience, not In the Immediate face ot the enemy, would have opened ranks and gone round that water on that cold December day. But the Fifth Cavalry was on dress parade in its first great light and it kept "right dreis." COMPANIES C, I AND O. " "Aftef the affair at White Hall, Com' tihnles C and 1 went on detached duty of which Captain Rankin wrote in The Franklin Press as follows: "Our horses were soon after ordered around to Goldsboro, and the regiment was divided ud into detachments for picket duty, hence I can speak only of my squadron, At nrst it consisted 01 Companies 0 and I, Captain Shaw com manding. Shaw's company was soon reiievedrhyt3ompany arcaptain Mo Lenaharfe The squadron was thereaf ter commanded by th writer until it rejoined the regiment In the spring", "With headquarters at Wise's Fark, we did picket duty on all the roads leading into the city ot Newbern. Some skirmishing-' occurred on the picket lines, and two or three times the ene my made-demonstrations In force, and was met by a counter move by our In fantry encamped around Kins ton, At such times the squadron had hard times. .Of course the enemy showed us no favor, and our own footmen dldn'! annrec at very greatly a man on horseback, aB was shown when one of my lieutenants, who hnd a spat with the enemy on the picket line and re ported the fact to Ueneral D. H. Hill the general carelessly asked If any one goi hurt and expressed a desire to see a 'dead 'marr with spurs on." In .the spring " of' 'M orders were received "for the squadron to rejoin the regiment at Richmond, Va. This was accomplished by marching from Klnston through the country to the latter point, being several days behind the regiment. "There wa drew fresh clothing, sad dies, bridles 'and other equipments, preparatory- o going to the front. Passing through Richmond" to Culpep er Court, House, we arrived In time to Join in the grand review of all the cav alry by General Lee, just before the noted cavalry fight at Brandy Station." COMPlMENT "FROM THE ENEMY. In their operations in eastern Caro lina the Fifth Cavalry occasionally met the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania -in fantry and their commander, Colonel J. Rlchter Jones, March 8, 1863, on pace 161, serial No. 25, says of the Fifth "They are a different class of troops from those wa have hitherto met, con testing successively every strong post tion and giving way only to very su perjqr, numbers,,,. LIEUTENANT W. J. WILEY. COM- V PANY F. A. NOUTllflELD OF THE SUUTH L r.rRiem" '.V! tamable from the higher points of vantage. Telephone puli have been partially placed btwn Monlreat and Ulack Mountain station, two mll-s away, and It is hoped to have this mod ern convenience )n use ntt year, "Cot- uvea of live and six rooms rent for 110 a month and a number of people se cured them for this summer. Among such cottagers wert Mr. J, K, Colt of Salisbury, and his mother and sisters. Misses Johnsle and Laura Colt and Misses Annie and Maggie Rankin and their father, Colonel Rankin, of Charlotte, whose presence added much lo the social enjoyment of the village. THE HOTEL MOTREAT. The :clal centre of Montreat 'to the pretty little Hotel Montreat, Just fin' BIBLI ITV'Or IK TBI MOUNTAINS. assBsar Coafermeee al Moatreat Dt.Te 1- tj, st Chios go, mm the Ureal Dcwtrlset t lbs BibleThe Beastles af waaaaaea A Itreaat la If yiunea-The Ateett at Qraybaard ad the BopSrh stoaaUla fsa rama Visible tress ths Top-A View laid to larpass that f rasa Mfc aUtehaU-risne Ballon ef the Alr-ATlay Maaatala Bpe-ttUator-AaIaldatlaEi-BMWr Jerfls' Oarwr-BeaaM , sad aeldets at Mm Written for Ths Observer. N It is the universal testimony of ths visitors at Montreat this year that the: received a great spiritual uplift lay thellshed In . time tor this year's guests. Bible conferences held there. Of the Mr. W. D. Paxton tit Lexington. Va,, speakers at the lost conference this a successful southern inn-keeper, is writer heard onl one ur. lorrey, 1 me manager ana m poiuiriir trim whose addresses occupied the last week I those who partake of his hospitality at of the conference, from August 20th to tests the fact that he Is always allvt On page 197, aerial No. 25, General Robertson reports: "With a view to carrying -oufTsMnstnictions of the major general commanding, D. H. Hill, I detached a party under Lieutenant W. J. Wiley, Company F, Sixty-third Regiment with directions to move rap Idly and out the railroad between Sheppard4vllle 1 and Newbern. Some time before day Lieutenant Wiley's party returned and reported they had torn up th railroad track at a iolnt three miles above Sheppardsvllle. From the proximity of the enemy's forces they were compelled to wait till after night to commence operations. I was highly gratified with the promptness and efficiency displayed by Lieutenant Wiley and party." This was done March 13, 1S63. The party with Wiley consisted of Denson A. Caldwell, H Baxter Caldwell, two as good soldiers as ever rode in the ranks, and others. And even Ocnelal D. H. Hill, with his well known dislike to cavalry, says this: "Romrtfon sent me out a lieu tenant who partly cut the railroad No. 3G. p. Ih'J. His feeling about caval ry was amusing. Writing to Secretary of War SeJdon, May 5, 1863, General Hill says: "In the whole brigade of cavalry there has been but one man killed In tho war. I propose to have' a magnificent monument rected to his memory." No. 25, p. 1048, General It E. Lee spoke of the cavalry as "My eyes and enr," and after Jackson and A. V. Hill were wounded at Chan cellorsvllle General lee put our caval ry leader, (ienersl J. E, B. Stuart, In their place to command, and on page 80S, No. 3$. In his official report of Chancellnrsvillt-, General Lee speaks most exalteillv of this cavalryman and his action and ability In that great bat tie. 26th. Those who preceded him were Rev, 0. H. Detwller, of Gastonia, wno aave some very helpful and much en joyed studies on the book of Ephesians; Rev. Walter Llngle, a Kowan county boy, very suhohuly for one of such youth, and a Hebrew scnoiar ame w fill Rev. W. W. Moore's chair at Union Seminary In the latter's vacation, who tolmovrw-goT our THblerMfrRTT. Mlllerr of -Toccoa. us., wen anown as an evangelist In North Carolina, a pro found student of the Biuie ana one "apt to teach" It. who spoke on "Tne Powers of Evil and the Devil's Coun terfeits." Rev. Dr, B. O. Guerrant, the evangelist of the Kentucky moun tains, was the only speaker expected who failed to be present ; Dr. It. A. Torrey, the last speaker, Is at the head of the Moody Bible Insti tute In Chicago.. He Is a man past middle age, ot powerful build and striking appearance. He looks a good deal like the pictures ot the head of one of the royal houses of Europe, but Is so much more in character a klnglter man - that perhaps the compsrison should not be made. He confesses 4o none of the flowers of oratory or the graces of rhetoric and yet he Is power rut ant imnreaslve as a orear her - Al through having heard imtny of the masters of pulpit oratory I havo never from any of them received so vivid and clear a conception of the atonement or of Justification by faith as from this Chicago preacn er. His method is different from the ordinary pulpit address. He has a hundred texts sometimes. He Interprets Scripture in tne light of Scripture. He Is Intensely de votional In his expositions. At tho nun time he is magnificently contro versial when need be. At nearly every place where he and Mr. Moody used 10 labor together In the latter's life time, there would be some who would call to see Mr. Moody to convert him to their particular ism. 'mese persons mooujt would generally turn over to sir. jior- rey, wno evidently ramer enjoyeu w experience. A FEARLESS PREACHER. ' Mr. Torrey has stood four-square to overv wind of heterodoxy that blows to-day. Under the very snaoow 01 ur. Harper's Standard-Oll-butlt inndei University and Theological seminary, Dr. Torrey and his colleagues In the Moody Bible Institute have contended with the courage of the lion for such vital doctrines io- CnrWtUnity as the Inspiration of the Scriptures, atone ment by blood, tustincation Dy mun, the second coming of Christ, etc. Even where Moody seemed to waver, he stood firm. At Northflcld once Mr. Moody said to him: . . 'Gwrge Adam Smith Is here. Don t you want to meet him?" "I do not," Insisted Mr, Torry, vig orously. "Well, If I arrange a meeting at which you are at liberty to till him what you pleas, will you?" "Under those circumstances, yes, replied Mr. Torrey. A night meeting around a little table took place, with Moody, Torrey and Prof. Smith present. It would be In teresting to know the conversation at comfort and pleasure. Mr, is also running a hotel at ! v, 1 '.' I 1 North 1 o, ;'(!. munnuf ut t;.i .F ,. ly har 1, t:.'.i, - V.e ,. r sand f.':t nbov it. quilted and cluster: ' of green. J, rt r; t ; and, grain. ioni.-At.. carpet of foliage lay ho 1 uroon. lo th west, tow., this beautiful vale, i;ig c,; Moses of mountains, pro; 1 side by Pinnacle and I;u,i' 1 his supporting Aaron and J . silhouetted against tbs sun t 1 the southwsrd was llorr t Black Mountain station, i. i cast almost as beautiful as the . annoa valley on the west were t; -Sinning of tha far-extendlnft, f vale of the Catawba. In the r dlstanre, the serpentine windin,;-, the railroad at Round Knob, an t denes of .man's victory over the t, klm of Nature, could be seen, and v we watched a train, tiny as one childhood's Christmas toys, crept t tlously down the steep grades.' Suddentyr a i solitary and sir to their Chnse Cl v Va He exSects tT ke 'lng ' Pnw hawks tember and October, and a beautiful time the autumn Is to see the moun tains of western North Carolina. Few more cosy or comfortable resting places ran be found than this little hostelry TtimtitnrTindef VH "wings of giant hills at the head of the cove, with the youthful Swsnannoa, before It comes to a full-grown river, singing its lym pld song os It sweeps swiftly by. GHAT BEARD VS. MITCHELL, The sevtm-mtle climb to the top of the venerable Grayleard begins at the back door of the Hotel Montreat. It has two advantages over the Mt, Mitchell trip, In being, first, not so far distant It is 18. miles to the top ot Mitchell, seven to the top of Graybeard and, second. In the mora beautiful view at the summit This may seem Incredible- hut it is the "testimony ot those who have made both ascents, Mitchell Is a morbid, ascetic hermit ot the hills, ever hiding himself from view and scowling from beneathbls black brow Into the very face of the heavens. Graybeard Is more Isolated, standing apart and abow hr.hrother"peak; throwing his shoulders back and tip toeing to take the morning, a friendly old Titan, keeping watch over the green-pastured and smiling valleys that surround htm on all sides far be low. Women who fear to walk climb his steep slopes on horseback or mule back. Parties who spend the night there carry their blankets and provis ions on pack-mules. The writer made two trips to the ton. The last was in company with a large party ot both men and women, when It rained and there was scant view, much chilliness In the air and a slippery and danger ous descent The first was In a party of a few select men without "Impedi menta," when there was a superb view. "THE LAUGHTER OF THE MOUN-TAINS." One of the characteristics of Mon treat Is the water. There must be a thousand springs of living water on the hlll-sldes here, for In almost every divide between the mountains a chrys- tal-clear stream comes leaping and dancing down the slopes, having just as big a frolic as the water at Lodore, Is it Longfellow who says that the wa ter In "the laughter ot the mountains?" If true, there Is never dylncmlrUi at Montreal! 'AU the mountain rill flow Into the East Fork of the Swanannoa, which waters this lovely vale and Its soft and ceaseless laughter never dies from the enr by day and croons a soothing lullaby through the livelong exquisite poise, began together a s; n ascent of the ' Invisible stairways t the air. It was a racea friendly r i between brown-winged Const . : Hon and CoJumblA,of lh other, f- -iteflly when they seemed half n ; Into the eye of th gun there wu i halt In th fterlal climb, and, ; wings thrown stiffly backward, one them darted earthward. The other t lowed a half a length behind. Two th ¬ rows never sped mora directly r. swiftly nor gracefully on an errand 1 destruction, than did these fierce t f prey as they plunged headlong I the dense foliage of the mountain i . Tireless sailors and swimmers in t currents of the air, they were d -sea divers, toot AIob for the be . sparrow they plunged forf v The clouds bad at first filled the v 1 leys and capped the mountain cr but while Greenwood, Miller, and K erton, of Durham, were 'dividing t . Word" and looking for some of t hidden things therein, aa the 1 dawned - upon them, tho clouds i . about suddenly lifted, as it were a re ward for thstr search and a pros ! of what might be had for further gence, Like roving flocks ot sheep, wlnd-shepberd drove the fleecy tna. to purple pasturage on ten thou, s mountain slopes. They added exqui s itely to ths glory of the view. Speaking of flocks and sheph' " ' '. some one has a beautiful thought at, the seven most noted shepherds ot . Testament times, and how It took all ' them together to typify tho richness i f the character of the Good BhephorJ ot the New Testament time. L "And Abel was a feeder of sh-- p." (Gen. 4:2, margin), a feeding shepli 2. "And Abram said unto Lot ' Separata thyself. ? If thou v l take ths left then I will go to t right (Gen. 12:1, 9.) Abraham wan a separating shepherd. ;, , I. "And he (Isaac) d! another well, and for that they su..-, not s i And, ht said. For now t: Lord hath made room tor us." (: . !6:2J.) Isaac was'a peaceful sher.iict-i. . 4. "And Laban sold unto J:ot,: 1 -cause thou art my brother, shoul t thou, therefore,, serve ma for nau t? Tell me, what shall thy wages l ." (Gen. 23:15.) Jacob was a purcha:,.. - Bhephsrd..---.w'-r.y"'".''.;? "" t. "And he said. 1 seek my bretfcn .1 where they' feed ;' their f!( : 1. And they said one to another. Behold thlfl dreamer cometh." ( .Gen. 37:15, 18.) ,- Joseph waa ' a prophet; ! shephenl. ft':!.:;ii-iv.'.,:.:; - . "Now Moses kept the flock cf night. If It were not for spoiling the Jethro." (Ex. f:L) Moses was a poetry of Longfellow's pretty thought I would whisper In your ear that In this phenomenal year of rain, and es pecially about the time of the May frehcts, "the laughter of the moun tains" degenerated Into a sad case of liquid hysterics, and the smiling Swannnnoa, named "Nymph of Beau ty" In the mellow Indian tongue, guf fawed away the picturesque foot-log at Rhododendron Rock, haw-hawed out of sight the rustic bridges, giggled it self out of banks Into the sloppy road that gathering that sat until 1 o'clock an,i flnaly horse-laughed Itself through THE BATTLE OF WHITE HALL. On the morning of December 11, 1802, the Federal General Foster left New bern, N. C, on his expedition against Goldsboro, with 10,000 Infantry; 40 pieces of artillery and 640 cavalry, se rial No, 25, p. 64. On the 14th the Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Cavalry were moved from Garysburg by train, via Goldsboro, lo Moseley Hall, now La Grange, on the railroad between Golds boro and Klnston, the horses being sent through the country. A fierce tight raged for several hours at White Hall bridge, over the Neuse, and while the Fifth Cavalry was held In reserve dis mounted acd not actively' engaged In this battle they were under heavy ar tillery fire sufficiently to show their mettle. The explosion of an U-pounder near their colors, . as ' the ; regiment marched like on dress ' parade to the front gave the men an idea of what war meant In his report of this battle General Robertson says: "The Fifty ninth (Fourth Cavalry) and the Sixty third (Fifth Cavalry). Regiments, al though In reserve, were . nevertheless Means ha so grouped his facta as to Brigade, and thus Instead of a body of exposed to a galling fire from the ene THE FIFTH SELECTED BY GEN BR AL R. E. LEE. General l.ee's accurate knowledge, even to minute details, of every regi ment In the Southern armlec is as toundlng to any one carefully studying the "Official Records of the Union and Confederato Armies." He knew how each was mounted and armed and he knew any petty Jealousies and differ ences among the officers of a regiment that might weaken Its efficiency. His choice of a regiment then was a great credit to that regiment April 21. 1S63. S. Cooper, the adjutant and Inspector general of the Confed eracy, wrote General R. E. Lee: "The President has shown me your letter of the 2nth Inst, on the subject of an Increase of cavalry for your com mand." He was offered a list of s'.x regiments to choose from. "The PresI dent suggests that you make your se lection of three regiments and give the necessary orders in the case" No. 40, p. 741. He selected the Second, the Fourth and the Fifth North Carolina Cavalry Regiments. Thus the Fifth North Carolina Cavalry went to Vlr glnia in May. 1RSS, by General R. E, Lee's own selection. The Fourth and the Fifth constituted Robertson's Brigade in Virginia and Jointly numbered 1,068 ."effective mount ed men" and 67 officers, and was one of the six brigades constituting Stu art's Division of Cavalry, The Fourth had 66 men and 36 officers and the Fifth 500 men and 31 officers, and were the two largest regiments in the dlvls ion., except the First North Carolina and the Ninth Virginia, which had, rar spectively, 634 officers and men and 616 officers and men. No. 40, p. 822. Thus. st the opening of the great campaign of 1863, we stood about tho best of all Gen eral Lee's cavalry." Great and startling events now occur fast fatally for some of the Fifth, famously for all of It , v , PAUL B. MEANS. - Private of Company F. Concord, N. C, Sept. 6, 190L, In the morning. Mr. Torrey gave only a glimpse Into It. when he related that he snld to Prof. Bmitn: "You cannot tell me that you are true to God or flod s Word when you deny, for Instance, the Davldlc author ship of a Psulm that Jesus Christ Him self attributed to David, and. more than that, which He used In an argu ment for His own divinity, wnen Christ said: 'How then doth David In spirit call him Lord, saying; "The InrJ suld unto my Lord, bit tnoti on my rlsrht hand till 1 make thine ene mies thy footstool." if David then call Him Lord, how Is He his Bon' when Christ thus attributes these words to David. I believe Him and not you and your fellow-erltlcs." Mr. Torrey Is pastor of a Congrega tional church In Chicago, now entirely Independent It Is composed of 1,800 members, coming from 32 different de nominations. It is In no sense a fash lorihle church, and Is made up of rich and poor alike. The poor are not driv en away by the presence of well-to-do members but are welcomed by them. There Is a millionaire member a lady who sits side by side with a washer woman. Mr. Torrey's addresses at Montreat were on the subjects of the divinity of Christ, the atonement, Justification, sanctincatlon, and the second coming of Christ. He carries three books Into the DulDlt his Bible, a specially pre pared, vellum-covered book of his lec tures. "What the Bible Teaches," and a Greek Testament. His power comes largely from his prayerful life and his hard study of the Bible. A year or two ago he was st Montreat when there was no notoi and only limited accommodations. H was given a room In one of the cot tages. Early In the morning before daybreak an early rising young man pased by the rotfage and was sur prised to see a light burning. He looked through the window to see Mr. Torrey, with the aid of a lamp, pouring over a Greek Testament. This Is the way he has acnulred his wonderful knowledge of the Book. Mr. Torrey Is the author of many books, He says he. enjoys more than anything else preparing his monthly pamphlet, "Dally Bible Notes," for systematic devotional, dally Bible, study, one ot tne nest neips on tn Sunday school lessons is his "Gist of the Lesson." MONTREAT GROWING. The Increase over last year In ' the a ttendance - at these conferences Tor Christian workers and for Bible study, and the multiplication of new cottages, are very noticeable, and Mr. Westoa R. such cottagers were Mr. J. K. Colt, Gales, the manager of the , Montreat Association, is much encouraged. Lot! in the sssoclatlon's territory have been priced at $100. It was decided to re duce the price - to $50 to those who would buy before September' 1st' and between nine and twelve lota were the muddy French Broad and Holston and Tennessee Into the swollen Missis sippi, wrecking steamboats and de stroying crops. This was "the laugh ter of the mountains" gone mad. Many men, many minds. Various people learned the lesson of the waters In various ways. Those who saw It through Longfellow's eyes saw In it llghtheartedness. A young lady was Impressed, like Tennyson when he wrote "The Brook," with Its hurry, Its ceaseless pressing forward. Llngle fell to musing over Its ' earnestness. To myself It was - lovely for its purity. Clear as chrystal, even when It loses Its temper for the moment after a har assing storm Its waters retain their clearness. Here, high up In the hills. gushing fresh from the heart of the mountain, rolling In rock-lined bed, I he water Is In its stainless childhood before it attains unto the deeo and tri ple river, powerful and majestic but mud-soiled and discolored. t CLIMBING GRAYBEARD. t 1 For slmost five miles the trail up Graybeard follows by the side ot the East Fork ot the Swanannoa. The steeper the mountain gets, the mon, boauttful the hundreds of foam-velled cataracts and silver-sheened rapids. Now It spreads thinly over a wide ex panse of rock and again It sinks al most out of sight deep down In some t'ny canon, fringed at the brink with laurel or rhododendron, which It has chiseled for Itself through the ages of the past. Here It laves tha feet of the pink-blossomed eglantine and there It pauses, after a whirl around the rocks, to kiss the bending tiger Illy, freckled faced lass of mountain flowers. The cicture Is exquisite and adds to the charms of this delightful mountain climb. . As we neared the top the clouds were rolling thick through the mountain gorges, heading toward Mt. Mitchell, Fearing we might not get a glimpse ot this Titan of the Titans, we raced for the summit while the clouds raced for Mitchell. The artillery ot opposing ar mies sometimes races for opposite hills', each seeking to reach the coign of van tage first We won in this race, and, standing on Greybeard's crest, stormed the surly but splendid old black- browed sentinel of the hills 'with the artillery of our eyesight beforo he could mask himself In clouds. Hta group Is Will named "the Black Moun tains," for the oaisam growtn., at tne top took on' the darkest tint of blue when Artist Nature ' put her brush to this .superb panorama of mountains and vales, Mt Mitchell stands off to the near north from Graybeard snd looming ur about him are hla body guard of Cllngman's Peak. , tho Black Brothers and the rest It did not ap pear to be mora than five miles across the gorge, as the crow" files, from where we stood to the top of Mitchell. To th west and southwest tar down be- keeplng, a protecting, shepherd. 7. "And David Bald unto Saul Ttr servant kept his father's sheep, ail there cam a lion, and a bear, and i c a lamb out of the flock; and I - .l out after him, and smote him, snd de livered It out of his mouth. . (I B.U.U 17:34, 35.) David was ft powerful shep herd. . i - All these characteristics centre la the Good Shepherd.' Ho IB a feedln separating, peaceful, purcbaxtr , prophetic, protecting, powerful Shep herd of His sheep. fs, . AN EMBRYO P. D. ARMOUR. ' A rare mountain treasure discover 1 last year at Montreat was Miss Cot 1 Ie Cordell, the dainty, barefoot. I lass who carried her pink-ribboned I t up-sldcdown In a rain-storm to sav the trimming. Aiother rich mid get was picked up fat the Hotel Mo - treat In the person of Master Tr Daugherty, a 13-year-old mountain la who walks three miles every Wedn day and Saturday to tho hotel to sht shoes. His face is bright and Intel. gent and as sweet aa a little girl's. A he Is a hustler front a-way back. 1. Is carefully Investing hla nickels ! dimes In the best mountain security . He works hard white he la at it "Lem ma have that other foot," he cries en ergetically, as he leaves' No. 1 with a glistening polish on It Every t:,. Trott saves two dollars and a half 1 buys a calf. He turns them loose in tl. mountains In the spring and summ.r and sells thenTIn the fall for I apiece. Sometimes he buys sheep., lu has two calves and one sheep at th present writing-. Almost every visitor at the hotel predicts a brilliant finan cial future for ' Master Trott Daus'i erty, and some say he Is apt to bo come In time the P. D. Armour of the South. , ,' ' - ' TRIBUTE TO EX-SENATOR JARVI3. One of the most delightful visitors at Montreat was Rev. Mr, Dickey, a re turned missionary from Brasll ot the Southern Methodist Church, who Is lit this country for treatment for throat trouble. His descriptions ot Brazilian customs, Institutions, productions, his tory, etc., frequently added to the en joyment of a dinner table conversa tion. In speaking 01 ex-Senator Jar vis' service as minister to Braxll, Mr. Dickey said that there had been ni minister to Brasll, from this country, before or after him, who could at al compare with him for high character and Integrity, lie enjoyed to the fu:i the highest tespect ot both the Brazil ian people k and government On one occasion.sald Mr. Dickey, Dom Peilro's daughter, (whose machinations even tually led to the old Emperor's over throw), gave a big reception and t '1 on Sunday, to which Mr. Jarvla v 1 Invited with all tha othr foreign 1! - nitanes. whatever their sn about Sunday observance, the to' diplomats all attended, perhaps s on the principle of doing In Ron t tbe Romans do. Mr. 'Jar vis did ih t at tend, the Princess walncens 1 st f absence and he went to the l it! Monday to explain to her the When he told her that It was a t bf principle that kept 1.1. u t" Emperor's daughter's an - r f admiration, and, while she v good woman, but 1:kI principled one, sne e wr Minister Jarvis In tJ 1 and honor. . . - A swrr.T : The singer at the ) , . '- V , : ',''.'' VJ V "' H ' v, ; " ".;,. ,. V'.. .. - i i -V A ' -.'.. ";.?; T",1'!. '"" i'.ii'ii','li'i I.. .i.,il.n ti nil ill -jrf
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