Memorial
Day—South
By Henry E. Litchford
Tuesday next, May 10th, is Con
federate Memorial Day, at which
time with loving hands flowers
from our homes and gardens will
be used in decorating graves of
soldiers of the war of 1861-6.
This day is chosen as it is the
anniversary of the deathr of Gen
eral Thomas J. Jackson, who died
May 10, 1863.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, (1824
-63), better known as ‘Stonewall
Jackson’, was born at Clarksburg.
W. Va., graduated from West
Point in 1846, entered the artillery
and gained two brevets in the war
with Mexico. He retired from the
army in 1861, and became profes
sor to the Virginia Military Insti
tute, where he was more noted for
his conscientiousness and religious
earnestness than for his success
as a teacher. He took command of
the Confederate troops at Harper’s
Ferry on the secession of Virginia,
and commanded a brigade at Bull
Run, where his firm stand gained
him his nom de guerre of ‘Stone
wall.’ Promted to major-general, in
the spring of 1862, in the campaign
of the Shenandoah valley, he out
generalled McDowell, Banks, and
Fremont, and eventually drove
back upon the Lower Shenandoah
these three Federal armies, two of
them superior in strength to his
own. Then, hastening by forced
marches to Richmond, he turned
the scale at Game’s Mills (June
27), and, the Confederate capital
relieved, returned to defeat Banks
at Cedar Run in August. He then
seized Pope’s depot at Manassas,
and his corps bore the brunt of the
fighting in the victorious second
battle there on August 30. On Sep
tember 15 he captured Harper’s
Ferry with 13,000 prisoners and 79
cannons, and the next day, after a
trying night march, arrived at
Sharpsburg, where his presence, in
the battle of Antietam, saved Lee
from utter disaster. Advanced to
lieutenant-general, he commanded
the right wing at Fredericksburg
(December 13), and at Chancel
lorsville on May 1, 1863, drove
Hooker back within the Wilderness.
All next day Jackson was on the
march, moving round the flank of
the National army; at nightfall he
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fell upon its right and tfrove it
back on Chancellorsville. Return
ing from a reconnaissance, his par
ty was fired upon by some of his
own command, and Jackson receiv
ed three wounds. His left aim was
amputated; but pneumonia set in
on the 7th, and on May 10 he died.
Jackson was the idol of his troops;
and his power over his men was
justified as much by his soundness
of judgment as by his personal
fearlessness. No single death was
so severe a blow to either side. He
was one of the ablest of the Con
federate commanders, and possibly
the greatest corps commander on
either side during the war.
General Jackson was wounded
three times on May 2, 1863. He was
removed from the battlefield to a
little house at Guinea Station on
the R. F. and P. Railroad a few
miles north of Richmond, where his
left arm was amputated.
At first it was thought he would
recover, but unfortunately pneu
monia set in, and his strength was
unequal to the operation which he
endured, and he died on the tenth
of May. The little house in which
he died has been preserved as a
shrine, and is annually visited by
thousands of people.
His body rests in the center of
a little cemetery in Lexington, Va..
and the body of General Lee rests
in the same city in a vault under
neath the chapel of Washington
and Lee University.
Strange it is that the two most
outstanding Confederate generals,
neither of whom was born in Lex
ington. are both buried in Lexing
ton within a very short distance of
each other.
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SPEAKER
Buie’s Creek— Editor Santford
Martin of the Winston-Salem Jour
nal has been secured to deliver the
commencement address at Camp
bell College June 2, announces
President Campbell.
Rev. Sankey L. Blanton, Wil
mington pastor, will preach the
sermon Sunday May 29 to the
members of the three graduating
classes.
The college glee club is present
ing Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic
opera. “Pinafore,” Wednesday ev
ening of June 1 under the direction
of L. W. Prior.
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farm. Throughout the U. S. many
barns are in such need of repdirs
and replacement that their gaunt
frames with missing or broken
boards seemingly no longer serve
any purpose other than to blight
the American countryside.
Engineers at the U. S. Forest
Products Laboratory, Madison,
Wis,. point out that using proper
construction methods and suitable
woods for barn repairs, when they
are made, will prevent early re
placements in the future. For in
stance, if the barn boards or siding
is to be replaced because of rot, a
decay-resistant wood should be us
ed, such as the heartwood of cy
press, redwood, northern white ce
dar, or western red cedar. These
woods are usually stocked by most
lumber yards. If supporting posts
or studding has given away be
cause of lack of strength, the re
placement should be made with
those woods noted for their com
pression strength, stiffness, good
nail-holding power, and medium
freedom from warp. Among such
woods are Douglas fir, western
larch, southern yellow pine, and red
or white oak.
For stanchions and stalls, which
require high bending strength and
medium decay resistence, white
oak is a good wood to use. Howev
er, in some localities where rock
elm, black locust, or Osage-orange
can readily be obtained, these
woods will answer the purpose
very well.
Sills on foundation walls require
god nail-holding power, hardness,
and good decay resistance. If sill
repairs are to be made long life
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wood, or white oak is used.
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