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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK , rQfiifinn. and the Alex til .it I'CCOmca 7 Bhie f,vm will be famous for a long, , .,v. The Alex Blue monument in Grove Churchyard will always be ianiovis. WHEHi: THE WOMEN FACED SHERMAN. fter all, when you come to tell the story of this section of the country, some of the foremost of the heroes have been the women and the slaves. The visitor AVho comes to Pinehurst to put in a brief vacation in winter amid all the con veniences and modern luxuries does not suspect the burdens that have been car ried on the shoulders of the women of this part of the world. In the early days on her devolved the task of providing for the wants of the family, weaving the vain, making the clothing, rearing the ihiMren, caring for the home, and doing the unlimited tasks that are always done by the women. That was the common lot, and was not rated' extraordinary. Prob ably civil war laid on the women of the South a responsibility greater than was ever known to any other part of the United States. When South. Carolina in its noisy style invited civil war the cost was not counted. That idea that the whole thing would be over in ninety days obscured the graver judgment and the fuller consideration. So when the ter rible encounters like Antietam, Gettys burg, the Wilderness, and Chancellors ville began to mow down men like a pes tilence, North Carolina, like. the other states, saw the men and boys going off to the front. When you take a man away you leave something for a woman to do. When you take away about a million men you leave the work of about a million men for a million women to do, and it is no small task for a woman to do her own work and that of a man besides. It is not helped any by the in conveniences that war puts on a country. The civil war was a war fought in the South. Pennsylvania saw a bit of over flow at Gettysburg, and while it lasted there but a. few days the trail of it is still apparent. From Gettysburg to the Bio Grande war ran over the South, and few neighborhoods escaped its ruin ous touch. It came through North Caro lina, the recruiting office and the draft taking away the men, and the marauding of invading troops bringing the destruc tion that comes with a conquering enemy. The women were left at home to do their work and to do the work of the men. At the same time they were to suffer the penalties of war brought to their doors. Out beyond Southern Pines is the old Buchan farm. By the farm house the road in war time days crossed the creek. Sherman's troops followed the road on their way fr0m Cheraw toward Golds- bo. On a hill above the ford Kill- .patl'it'K. mountftd hi ?mnnn fr wplpYVmA Hardee if he should come that way in Pursuit. The guns pointed toward the rd r.nd across the creek to the Buchan house. The commander sent word to the 'oni.;r. at the house to move out. Firing tlle would endanger them. , And the won,t y, sent baek word tQ moye if tley - ere to be moved, that they, would stav h their home; Fortunately Hardee om "o the other road two miles away m guns were not fired. But farther down the road the guns were fired. The women stayed and defied the armies of either side. Thev staved and maA iha crops and fed the children. The women stayed ana received the wounded and maimed, nothing but the memory of a tragedy and an unknown grave some where out in the Virginia peninsula, or at Stone Kiver or Petersburg, took up the struggle. Here and there you find some of them yet, although time has car ried most of them to the balancing of accounts where they are entitled to a brave credit for their share in the bat tles that are even more serious than the battles fought amid the excitement of powder smoke and the rattling of drums. It is interesting to drop off by the roadside and fall in with some of those women of the war days and listen to the struggles that came with war and hung over this country until a new generation had grown up to help carry the load and help bring the unhappy community back to something like the prosperity of which war deprived it. Women have always been good fighters. . In the days of the French revolution the women were even more savage than the men. In the occu pation of New Orleans women were much more bitter than the men. It is because women have to bear a serious burden in war time and in the days that lead up to war, and that the influences involve not only principles but the woman and her brood. The unwritten history of any country is always the part the women played. Only occasionally a Joan of Arc froes out at the head of the troops. But o - . those who stay at home fight a battle as exacting, although because it is not sur rounded by the spectacular setting it is not written down in the story of the fiht. As I sav. drorj off at the road o side one of these days in the less fre quented routes and talk with some of the war time women who still survive if you care to make the acquaintance of heroes. Talk with them if you have any curiosity about what the submerged side of war and of history means. It will give you a different perspective on lots of the im portant things of life for that same in centive which makes woman a warrior in her unobtrusive way in the days of war makes her a warrior in the more placid wars of peace. BUTLER ON SLAVERY Another of the heroes worth stopping to talk with is the old slave. The man from the North can probably never understand the attitude of the slave. When the white men of the tate were in the army fighting against the force that stood for emancipation , the slave, tVifl snhiect of the contention, remained at home on the plantation, devotedly loyal to the family of tne man who sRp.rificinff himself to keep that slave in slavery. The point the Northern man forgets is that while slavery gave to the master a right of possession that right of possession was a ngnt- tnat waul fp.at.fid itself only under occasional con ditions. The every day relations between white man and black man were those of superior and inferior members of the same industrial and social organization, and the black man was a member. The black man's wants were looked after by To You An American! The winning of this war is not a matter of one million soldiers in the trenches supplied with explosives and big guns. Our army must be one hundred million strong - the entire population of the United States armed with a willingness to serve," save and sacrifice. 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