160 Norta Carona Troops, 1861-65. .

killed upon the battlefield, against 9,000 as the highest num-
ber from any other Southern State.

These are facts and figures which do not properly belong
to a sketch of the Forty-ninth Regiment; still they are true
as to the part which our good State played in that dreadful
war, and I want our North Carolina boys and girls to know
what sort of forefathers they had in the times which tried
the souls of men.

Peace to the ashes of the brave men who gave their lives for
the Lost Cause! “They sleep their last sleep, they have
fought their last battle, and no sound can awake them to
glory again.”

May God bless the living! Some of them are watching,
day by day, for the sunset’s glow, or stand listening to the
beat of the surf as it breaks upon the shores of eternity. May
God give them victory in the last battle!

B. F. Drxon.

Suey, N. C.,
9 April, 1901.