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'3? fe'i it r -1 PAGJE 14 THE MORNTNG8TAB, IliMlNGrTOTN. C, NTJND AT". JA1JDABY 79. 1913 . If- THIS, WEEK-t-J . , ;-..- . ' -.s I . . . ;. ;.:':a, Will Mark the Beginnine of the End of The E PM 1 WIIJ WIIIWI IIIMMW L J m g v . ; . . aniiarythe20th to :25tKr-X - , I - - - , , n t f . J GEO. O. GAYLORD and PLATT & HAAR CONSOLIDATION SALES he Ordinary sales, conducted in the sensational The fact that the sales now being conducted at the stores above named are as interesting to Wilmington shoppers now as on the opening day, proves that real bargains are being offered at both stores. . The stocks are fast being depleted, yet there is a plenty left to make the coming week just as-interesting as the first days 'of thesale. Every sale that's made gives just mat much room 'for the new stocks now being purchased for the opening of the ' A Before the Week Is Over We May Decide on the Ending Date, So Again We Say, Attend, Ere it Be Too Late! It GEO (To GAY O HK O 2 10-212-2 14 N Front St. .A' PLA AAft 9 and 11 North Front Street - ' - . . - - I l ' PI - : . - ,.: ... . - . . I " ,- ,J I ; ' ' ' L ' - - -. : v -.. r--,..: .:: ..-;: -. -, . ,: , :., : .:.;:-.;:-a-v.,v,a--7-,;--:;J--- n THE CHARGE BF LONGSTBEET Capt. James I. Metts Replies to Some Virginia Critics of His Recent Article Published In Wilmington Editor- of the Confederate Column, The Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va, Dear Sir: Replying to Mr. B. A Robert's article in your paper of No- , vember 3rd, headed "Who is Captain James I. Metts?" beg to state that Mr. Roberts can learn of . General W. R. Cox, of Richmond, Va.; Walter Clark, Chief Justice of North Carolina, or most -kny prominent citizen of Wil mington, N.C., my home. ;If Mr. Roberts will correctly read the article, "Longstreet's Charge at uectysDurg, - ne will Hnd that it is a compilation of statements of the valor or cowardice of the- troops engaged made by historians and soldiers on both sides who participated in that charge, their names being given and not of my own. personal knowledge. I do not claim to be superhuman, and - could not be in two places at the same time. I was in my, proper place as second lieutenant of Company A, Third North Carolina Infantry, during the charge up Culp's Hill on, July 2nd, un til shot through the body and right hing about 9:30 P. M. on the ridge to. the right of the works captured from -the enemy, and was sent to our .hospital, about two miles in the rear, v -by Major Parsley, Captain Armstrong and Adjutant James. - I note that Mr. Roberts failed to include the Maryland Battalion as a part of Geo. H. Steuart's Brigade, which was among the 'best soldiers t and fighters in the brigade, who by - their position In the line fell heir to the ; Yankee works on the first ridge and joined on the left of the Third North Carolina Infantry. - - ; "-After descrfbing the position the brigade occupied at the foot. of the hill alongside of Rock Creek, where it remained till dark and then moved out, he. says r "But in the meantime - some of our boys had fallen asleep, , find the ext morning, the 4th of July, iMajor W. -M., Parsely, of the Third NorUi Carolina Infantry, found that " he was short .156 jnen; ? also, "if the Virginia , troops 'acted cowardly in the Pickett charge the Third North Caro lina "acted ; dqu'biy so in remaining -.behind the. rocks at Culp's Hill to . surrender to the enemy the nest morn . ing." Would; not the same accusation v,'-apply to his;own boys of the- Porty : third Virginia who "fell asleep behind the roak&J'V ' He furnishes no proof ; that the Carolinians-. surrendered to the enemy; hesidesIf any of the Vir. gjnia:. troops acted cowardly . in , the Longstreet charge .that is no evidence that (he Third North Carolina Infantry "was guilty of such, a charge. It should toe recalled however, that I made no 5 charge Of J cowardice ;of : the Virginia troops and do not now, my object be ing to establish facts. - ' 1 I believe that none of the . Maryland Battalion or of the Virginia regiments of Steuart's Brigade will support him in his accusations. On the contrary, the Third. North Carolina Infantry went into the- charge up Culp's Hill with 300 guns, and on the 4th of July only seventy-seven men could be must ered; the balance (223 men) were ac counted for as kalled or wounded, hence there could be no Drisoners and consequently the 15G men short, which he claims "lay behind the rook tn surrender next morning to the ene my," did not surrender to the enemv. This old Tar Heel resriment smit too much of the Yankee gunpowder and suffered too heavily In many hard fought battles with the Army of North ern Virginia under Generals Jackson, Grimes, Cox, Steuart. Colston, vtr and was too well-known in that army to have such charge hatched up about it. To corroborate this statement, I copy from.Clark's Reeimental ttistnrv of North Carolina the part taken by me imra Kegiment, North Carolina Ip-fantry at Gettysburg, as follows: From this - camD the Third T?pe-i. ment, -vpith the brigade, marched via Hagerstown to Chambersburg, Green castle and McConnelsbnre'. tn tha iq vicinity of Carlisle, from which point we countermarcned.-'and aftef a very long and tiresome march (twenty-five miles), on the 1st of .Tiilv. issa ar rived1 at Gettysburg about 7:30 o'clock ana uiea 10 me lert, nearly encircling the town. Here we lay in line of bat tle until the evenine of the 9nA whan about 6 o'clock ward. . We were on the right of the brigade and were ordered to connect our right with the left of Nichols' (La.) Brigade, and at the same time by wheel to the right to proDerlv nmlnr? We did so, thereby in seme degree dis connecting our regiment from the rest of the brigade. w trout, driving th pnAmv'a civicur. ueiore us wltnout trouble, and with very ntue loss, until we met his line of battle at his first line of breast works. He was. however driven fmm those, and soon thereafter we received a front and- oblique fire from ; behind his second line of breastworks, to which he had fallen back. He was soon "driven from; .the - portion from ; which; we received the oblique fire, ahd then the fire f rofflu; the-..front seemed even more terrible; ? A steady' firing was keDt UT rintil 10 n'r.lhctr P -M r when - c - "y, as by common consent, it ceased, re opening at 4 : 30 o'clock next morning. We here found . our; amnJunition nearly exhausted,' some menfTiaving not more than two rounds.i We partially refilled bur cartridge boxes from. those. of the dead and wounded, of hom there was a sreat number, and held-this Dosit.ion that night' and the next morning, ex nosed to a. terrlfif. fir until about 10 sn P. M.i when We were ordered to move Dy tne lert, jank-along tne . line er the captured breastworks, .and to cross them and to form line with the rest 'nf the brigade ' to : -charge ithe ; enenay's woriftS on what is supposed to De his right 'flank. - , ; Tho fow man then romninlnc . in tho regiment, were formed on the right of the brigade, and j very soon thereafter were ordered forward, the line advanc ing beautifully under the heaviest fire and his staff is beyond cavif. It seems Pickett did not lead his owfa brigade, a ItTirmo-h ' writ dra r t hictniw i ' r our regiment fllone J ginla, have , been crediting :him with front, unsupported, fading thfe whole charge. Has Pick- en no kib living to rescue ?trutntully his memory? If it cannot be' done, then- correct the school histories now being taught Virginia children and let .rexugrew's name 'be honored as it de until we i found moving to the when theofficers: and men were order ed to withdraw, which was done slow ly and, without (confusion, the regi ment being greatly reduced (one com pany - Captain John Cowan's and o part of another being detached to fill serves! oyttvg ucinccii liics riiiiiipnr nn i the Louisiana . Brigade. Too m,,.h . ; Neither Piokett nor any member of praise cannot be and . men, of ouf Too much given to' the officers . command for their coolness and 'bravery, for the prompt ness with which! they obeyed all or ders given themi, and their untiring zeal generally. V Tho enemv was drivon back to the Baltimore Turnpike in mis cnarge by Steuart's Brigade which came So near inflict in a- a critical Wnw on the enemy's extreme N right flank. ad this gallant movement been su ported, the charee of Tnne-strAot would not have, been necessary. That last . charere on thf third dn v was a cruel thing for the -Third. They had borne their full share of the en -gagement.inot even enjoying the pro tection of (he ' works they had cap tured .from the enemy by reason of their position other regiments of the brigade ihanneninir bv the fortunes of the battle, to have them (breastworks) m their.front. - There they: stood,he roes, holding their ground unprotect ed. Teceivine a most dadlv firn and giving in turn,, like true soldiers, 'what mey-couw rrom tneir decimated ranks, most of , their, comrades being already down, dead or: wounded, until ordsred to the left to joi4 the 'balance of the brigade to participate in the charge. . The battle of Gettvsbure is eenaral ly conceded to have been the hardest fought, battle of the war on either Side, at least, of those in which General Lee'svarmy were engaged. : This regi ment certainly suffered more in "killed and wounded than ip." any of the many battles in which it was engaged. What fearful slaughter it endured is shown beyond preadventu by the figures. Entering the battle with , SCO guns, -it' was greatly reduced by the killing and wounding pt 223 men. .fWhen. the regi ment was imustered after the battle? seventy-seven fwere all that could be gotten . in the ranks, ahd it .lost no prisoners and had no stragglers. ,The loss was within -a j fraction of seventy five JfPer cent, -Colonel Parsley,. Cap tain? H . -Armstrong :and Lieuten ant, iyon -"were the only officers per haps, not killed or wounded. Please publish kbove I in your Con federate ;vcolumn,v and . oblige, , i . -' Respectfully yours, JAMES I. METTS. ,v Captain Company b, Third North Car olina mrantry, Geo. Hv. Steuarfs Bri, gade, Johnson's Division, E well's Corps, A: N. V. i 1 ' his staff, nor even one of his horses, was touched. Why? Because dis mounted and -on the , farther side of a hill, that protected .them from'the ene- my'S'fire." If this -be true, Pickett has-been parading all these years in borrowed plumes. ; v The iconoclast is abroad in the land, pulling down off their pedestals some of their heroes, who since the war have been receiving unstinted hom age.. If it can be done, let some one who knows show Pickett's ritrht to be call ed leader of" Itfie famous ibharge at j, ; : . J. C. RENSHAW. ! Charlottesville. " Washington, January 16. After two hours debate in executive sessiorf. the Senate today confirmed the nomi nation of Colonel Edward J McCler nand, of the First Cavalry, to succeed General Wotherspoon, as brigadier general. ' There was no other confirm ation, and the Senate adjourned with the understanding that immediately after the routine business tomorrow another executive session would toa ordered to further consider army pro-, motions. Columbia, S. C, January 16. Founders Day, commemorating the 108th anniversary of the University of South Carolina, was celebrated, here today with elaborate exercises. Sev eral notable speakers were heard," in cluding Charles Francis Adams,; pres ident of the Jtfassachusetts Historical Society, and Dr. Walter S . McNeil. dean of the Richmond College Law School. - v. "Till tKe Sands of the Desert Grow ".' ; . Cold.". -New and pretty sone bv Mr. Kara at the Grand Theatre tomorrow.' (Advertisement.) - GRAY FAD ED HAI OB BEAUTIFUL DARK, ATTRACTIVE CHOOSE, MADAFili I Says Sasre Tea Mixed With Sulphur v Restores Natural t ; Color and Lustre. v ! Gray, faded hair turned beautifully dark" and lustrous almost over night, is a-reality, if you'll . take theFtrouble to mix; sage tea and sulphur, j$ut what's the tise, .you get a large bottle of the ready-to-nse tonic,- called "Wyeth's Sage " ahd Sulphur Hair Remedy" at drug stores here for about' 50 cents. f Million? ;-.of bottles of "Wyeth's" - are soia annuauy, says a well ltnown drug gist, because it darkens the hair so naturally ; and jevenly that no , one can fell -it- has beeS applied.' " P You just1 damnen ;a snOnee or soft brqsh with -Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Pickett at Gettysburg; Was If "Pick ett's Charge?" . I have read Captain James I. Metts' two -articles In- Tho ,T)mn',nt.-.i. claiming that vpicketfr-did not lead the , inenird day at Gettysburg: The evidence he furnishes will be dit- Charles S. Venable, of CharlottesYille, arid draw it through your, hair, taking one small strand at a time. Those whoses hair is turning gray, becoming faded, dry, scraggly, and thin, have a surprise awaiting them,: because after just one application the gray hair van ishes and Vour locks beebme luxuriant- ly dark and . beautiful all . dandruff goes, scalp" itching and - falling hair Stops. " -. - ' j This is the age of youth, gray .haired, unattractive t folks aren't .wanted around, so get busy with the 6age and Sulphur tonight and you'll be amazed at your youthful aDDearance and the real beufy. and healthy condition of your hair within a few days. Inquiry at drug stores here shows' that they all sell lots of "Wtvet.h's Ra p-o and Sul phur" xand the folks using it are en thusiastic. - 4 Special .Aeent.R:"U.T mVo Drug Co. Get Your Boya" , Pair of Shofes: ; Especially designed for v. Growing feet; They are .unusually durable and -turdy, being made t to 5tand the hard service re quired of Children's shoes 'Call and look them over. 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