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weekly Perspective , A, ? rf ?ife - Southern hope for confederate victory was rumor By the end of July. 1M3, Perquimans County had heard the truth about Gettysburg. Early rumors of a Confederate victory, a forlorn Southern hope, were found to be wrong. Coupled with news of the loss of Ticks burg, the outcome of the great battle In Pennsylvania was a clear warning that the Union would prevail. When Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia collided with George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac, many Perquimans men were drawn into the conflict around Die fields and hills of sleepy Get tysburg town. ; During the first three days of July General Lee ordered repeated at tacks on Meade's lines. !!One of those attacks made its way into American folklore. Wheteher gallantry or folly, Pickett's Charge became one of the best known actions of the War Between the States. North Carolina troops were prominent in the charge, and many wiar historians believe Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew at North Carolina was wrongly overlooked in the publicity given Pickett. ; General Pettigrew's grandfather 4|td father had resided in Perquimans for a time, and many of County's soldiers were in regiments within his division. ' Company F of the Eleventh North Carolina included several Perquimans men, of whom eight were captured at Gettysburg. The eight were Thomas C. Harris, Thomas T. Haskett, Theophilus Jones, Caleb Lane, William Lane, Joaeph S. Long, Joseph W. Trot man and Isaac N. White. White later wrote that on the third day at Gettysburg he "was knocked down by piece of shell and left un conscious on the field as dead. When I regained consciousness was surrounded by the enemy, taken priaoner and carried to Fort Delaware." Another prisoner taken the same day and sent to the same prison was Richard Q. Skinner of Company A* First North Carolina. While White was soon paroled and returned to his command, Skinner traded prison for service in the Union Army, enlisting therein on October 1, 1883. Serving in the First Connecticut Cavalry and later in the First In dependent Company of U. S. Volunteers, Skinner did duty in and around'Forts Ridgely and Snelling in the Indian country of Minnesota. He was mustered out in Novermber, 1865, after which he lived in Min nersota a few years before returning to Hertford. The aftermath of Gettysburg troubled Hertford more im mediately. Union troops appeared in the town on August 17, 1863, their intention being to prevent the local militia from obtaining a war footing, and, perhaps, to retaliate for the capture of some Pennsylvania militia before Gettysburg. The Union force captured the ranking officers of the Perquimans County militia, Col. Joseph G. Granbery and Lt. Col. Charles W. Wood. (The officers' wives, Isa G. Granbery and Mary E. Wood, had both recently given birth. ) After a humiliating parade through Hertford's streets, Granbery and Wood were marched northwrd into captivity. Prior to July, 1863, few in Perquimans had heard of Get tysburg, Pa. Afterward few could forget it. Looking back XYtuiAfo By VIRGINIA WHITE TRANSEAU CORBIN LEE CHERRY OR DAINED MINISTER: The Rev. Cor bin Lee Cherry, ton of Mrs. W. C. Cfeerry of Church Street and the late Ifr. Cherry, and a graduate of Kmory University, was ordained in Jbne at the Methodist Conference 10d in Greenville. "*he Rev. Mr. Cherry w?* ap pointed to three churches ir. the fixabeth City Methodist District and ?arves churches at Bath, Bethany aid Pantego, N. C. ?*. The young minister is a graduate of Arquimans county High School and g&duated from Emory University class of 1963, where he received a fichelor of Divinity degree. 3ACKS0N WINS NATIONAL AflFARD: George W. Jackson, a?cial representative for the Jef f^son Standard Life Insurance in hertford and Elizabeth CJjr. has been granted the National qpffity Award from the Jefferson S^adard Life Insurance Company. Sphe institutional citation is awarded to qualifying represen z tatives in recognition of a superior quality of life insurance service to the public. The award, in the form of a cer tificate, is made by the National Association of Life Underwriters and the Life Insurance Agency Management Association. COUNTY INVITED TO ENTER CRAB CONTEST: Perquimans County has been invited to enter its fastest and meanest hard blue crab in the third annual North Carolina Crab Derby to be held in Morehead City August 24. The crab representing this county will compete against those representing the other 16 crab producing counties along the North Carolina coast The Derby will be the highlight of a three-day fun and entertainment program atMorehead City. The crab-producing counties in the state are: Beaufort, Craven, Onslow, Dare, Pamlico, Pender, Hyde, New Hanover, Brunswick, Tyrrell, Washington, Chowan, Pasquotank, Currituck, Carteret, Perquimans and Camden. iTHE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY 5 Published Every Thursday By Advance Publ., Elizabeth City m I 1 Vol T. Short Jan* B. Williams Editor * Advertising Manager Pat Mansfield Circulation Manager NEWS AND ADVERTISING DEADLINE 3s00 PJVL MONDAY One To* - 7 JO in county ? *150 out of P.O. Box 277 1 Move that air any way you can. Freedom of the press misunderstood jA It's not often that a newspaper has the opportunity or the cause to give itself "bad press." Last week in THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY the opportunity arose, but not the cause. In the lead story on page one last week we reported a group of Snug Harbor residents "blasted" this newspaper during a county commissioners meeting for failing to report an apparent shooting in their community. The accusations made during the meeting that we are sup pressing the news and are "under orders" from the sheriff are unfounded, unfair and far from true. But the comments of the Snug Harbor people indicate to us, however, that some misun derstandings exist about both the press and county government. Many people interpret our freedom of the press as the right to print anything and everything, regardless of accuracy or sub stantiation. Others feel we should print only the good news ? or only the bad news about "someone else." The way we interpret our freedom of the press is to report all the news and events (that we receive) accurately and responsibly ? guarding against sensationalism, gossip and rumor. In news stories involving crime, we must have sub stantiation from law enforcement officials to ensure an accurate recording of events and people involved. In the case of the alleged Snug Harbor shooting, we have received only rumors and con flicting reports and no sub stantiation from the appropriate authorities. Another misunderstanding which came to our attention after the Snug Harbor residents' confrontation with the county commissioners is that some may believe the county sheriff is under the supervision of the county commissioners. Though the sheriff's depart ment is included in the county budget, and though all members of the department are considered county employees, the position of sheriff is an elected one. The sheriff, just like ?ny other elected official is accountable to the public. !v We appreciate the interest and concern of our readers, and we respect their need and right for good, responsible journalism. We are disturbed by criticism and "bad press" that is inaccurate and unfair ? just as anyone would be. Pacing South a sy i ul i ca ted colli mn\w Ii llq voices of tradition in a changing region BOUCETTE, Tex. ? No story about the Big Thicket Preserve, "the biological crossroads of North America," is complete without the name Geraldine Watson. The preseve stretches across 300,000 acres in southeast Texas, which also is a heart of the timber industry. The two cannot survive in the same domain. When the timber industry started whittling away the Big Thicket, one local woman, Geraldine Watson, along with several others put up a fight and won. Geraldine was the daughter of a Boucette, Texas, timber mill worker. "We lived on a little farm at the edge of town. There were virgin pine hillsides around and a little creek ran right in front of the house with virgin beech and magnolia." she recalls Years later ihe moved her own family to. the country so that her children could have the woods. "We had five acres of beautiful woods and I planted fern and aialeas. I put a trail though it for my children's tricycles, but then came a big freeway and wiped it out" At that point, Geraldine decided to fight for the woods she loved. The Big Thicket once covered 3.5 million acres, an area the siie c t the state of Connecticut Usually only one forest group exists over millions of acres, but in the Big Thicket nine forest associations flourish. Animals from biologies! extremes, from the prairie lands to the woodlands, coexist in the biologically uHr^oig Thicket A botanist by trade. Geraldine helped reactivate the Big TMeket Association to jrtwni the mere 300,000 acres that remained of this area. She did everything from dustry, ?he encountered many businessmen and politicians whose paths she would otherwise never have crossed. At one point, discouraged with the Texas conservationist movement and feeling overwhelmed, the retreated and announced a defeat But Ned Frits, a clow Mend and environmentalist from Dallas, told her, "Yes dear. 1 know it's hopeless. The way the population pressure is going it won't be Vang before there won't be any natural areas left But when the eod comes, which side would you have rather been on?" His words, though not con torting, put her back in the ring. Geraldine and her colleagues alao faced resistance from a majority of the local people, who relied heavily . on the toreet products industry. They pat up a vicious fight to protect their 1' toi Big Thicket Preserve became *g0 fource of ecooomic wealth with tW9<I influx of tourUti. The tame people71* who ostracized and attacked her made Geraldine a heroine. ; With aome bitterness in her voice Geraidine expresses them: "People tell me activist in southeast aame as being one in thecodl i areas." "The local people are i into thinking that they're | loee their Jobs If we save a ] iH if s midnformatkm.' Now with the Pr with of the Bif Thicket, back she says: "I don't ?van having to take a i oo the spot, I have to tat right; we've get to mm**
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