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LOOKING BACKWARD
Some Memories of Forgotten Heroes and Heroines Evolved by
Monuments and Old Plantations of the Sandhills
By Bion Butler.
If you happen down the Aberdeen road
and drift out on the hill toward the old
Bethesda Presbyteriaa church you will
come upon an historic spot. There a
century ago was the old Solemn Grove
Academy, one of the first spots in the
state that undertook to set up a school
which should start the boys on the road
to learning. To Solemn Grove came boys
from many places, among the number
William Graham, Secretary of the Navy
in the cabinet of President Fillmore.
The Grahams were men of caliber. The
father, Gen. Joseph Graham, came down
into North Carolina from Pennsylvania,
and at twenty-one years of age he was a
general in the Revolutionary Army, and
in one engagement had received six saber
wounds and three bullets. In an en
counter with the British down on Raft
Swamp, not far from Fayetteville, the
young fellow, with 136 men, defeated and
scattered a detachment of the enemy of
over six hundred. The old chaps were
handy on the day when trouble came, and
they stirred up a -lot of it around here
in the Sandhills country
JOSEPHUS DANIELS' PREDECESSORS
North Carolina has had five members
of the cabinet, and all of them held the
one office of Secretary of the Navy.
John Branch was the first. He was in
Jackson's cabinet. Like Graham he was
also Governor of his state before going
to the navy, and a senator of the United
States. Branch, after holding nearly all
the political offices from cabinet officer
down to the legislature of his own state,
was later governor of Florida, which had
come over to the United States from
Spain while he was governor- of North
Carolina. George E. Badger was Har
rison's secretary of the Navy. He came
from Raleigh, and was in the United
States Senate, like his predecessors in
the navy from North Carolina, James C.
Dobbin, the fourth Secretary of the Navy
from North Carolina, was a neighbor.
He went .to Washington from Cumberland
County. He had been in Congress for
one term, and declined a re-election.
Then he was chosen by his county to be
a representative in the legislature at
Raleigh, and there he became speaker of
the house. Afterward Pierce gave him
a place in the cabinet, where he stayed
four years. Josephus Daniels, appointed
to the navy by Wilson, is the first North
Carolina man to step into such prominent
place without the preliminary experience
of minor political office holding. It is
interesting, too, that Secretary Daniels
is the first of the North Carolina cabinet
officers to have a real navy on his hands,
and to have any real work to do with it,
for all the rest of the Carolina men ruled
a navy that was insignificant in its di
mensions and inactive in its career.
A DISPATCH RIDER'S DUEL
Yet it is not always the man who
figures in the prominent things that
is
the great man. On farther out beyond
Solemn Grove school is a farm that has
a bit of history as indicative of human
courage when its story is told, as any
thing around this corner of the Sandhills.
Alex Blue was a young fellow in the
confederate army. He is of the Blues
that are numerous in Moore and Hoke
Counties, and of that same blood that has
been making its name known on various
occasions in the United States. Alex
Blue went out when he was a young
fellow, and the fortunes of war made of
him a dispatch bearer for his commander.
One day he found himself carrying dis
patches from one officer to another. In
the course of his ride he found himself
obliged to cross a bit of ground on which
he suddenly saw a skirmishing party of
federals flash into view. Alex Blue was
a good rider, and he had a horse he was
proud of. The federals rode after him,
and he rode from them. His horse
showed its breeding, and drew away from
most of them, but one persistent fellow
pressed the dispatch bearer mighty hard.
Blue realized that he carried important
documents, for the engagement that was
going on was a severe one, and he wanted
to get his message safe to the destination.
He saw that the pursuing federal had a
good horse and that the horse had a skill
ful rider. He recognized that it was a
horse race and a duel, and that it must
be completed in a very brief period. He
turned in his saddle and brought up his
carbine as the federal soldier prepared
to shoot. The guns crackled almost sim
ultaneously. Blue escaped, but the fed
eral dropped from his mount. The race
had narrowed to the two of them. At
each end of the ground stood witnesses of
the opposing armies. It was a dangerous
place for the courier, and a dangerous
place for the federal soldier if he hap
pened to be living. Alex Blue wheeled
his horse, turned, went to the help of the
injured enemy, sat him up, gave him a
drink from his own canteen, and then
mounted and rode off to his own side.
I do not recall how the. affair terminated,
but it is my opinion the federal soldier
was rescued by his own troops who were
permitted to take him away without mo
lestation. No matter about the detail. It is the
magnanimity shown on the field of battle
by one soldier to another. The humanity
which recognizes that a wounded man is
no longer an enemy but a fellow creat
ure, and which takes the chances to
succor an enemy when he is no longer
dangerous, but in need of help. It is
not the bigness of the thing a man does,
but the sentiment he shows when he does
it that counts, and I never get out into
the Blue settlement but I think of that
service shown his foeman by Alex Blue,
the boy who carried the messages in the
civil war. He died not very long ago,
but he will be remembered in history un-
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One small upholstered mahogany sofa,
two chairs to match. One small brown
velour couch, two black walnut arm
chairs to match. Two dark oak leather
upholstered hall chairs. One dark oak
hall chair. One black walnut marble top
toilet table. One black walnut light
stand. One single black walnut bed
stead, woven wire spring, hair mattress.
One small black walnut desk. One small
light oak desk.. One Limoges salad set.
One dozen china fish plates. Some odd
pieces green Canton china. One lare
brass Japanese incense burner antique.
JANETTE H. BAXTER.
Box 274, Southern Pines.
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