FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT.

(FOURTH CAVALRY. )

 

 

By W. P. SHAW, Szconp Lizutenant Company D.

 

It may be questioned if in the entire range of our
thought, there can be found any object more deserving of the
highest admiration, and more worthy of the lasting gratitude,
of the people of the South than the true Confederate soldier,
or if there can be found any cause more worthy of the his-
torian’s patient labor than an honest and earnest effort to
keep fresh and green the memory of his patriotic devotion
to his country and home, together with his invincible valor
so eminently displayed through the four long years of self
sacrificing hardships and bloody strife of the Civil War.
“Truly no dark ingratitude should ever overshadow the cher-
ished memory of our gallant dead, whose manly forms rent
and mangled by shot and shell, pierced by the bayonet’s
thrust, or borne down by the sabre stroke, fell upon the bloody
battlefield, or wasted and died, in the hospital and the camp,
of gaping wounds or burning fever.” Yet little has been
done to preserve from oblivion and forgetfulness the gal-
lant deeds, self-sacrificing devotion to duty of those true
gons of North Carolina, who so bravely stood for “the Lost
Cause,” and how rapidly the glorious deeds of our heroes are
fading from our memory is made more apparent as we look
about us for published data and the record of the glorious
deeds done by the soldiers of our State. Especially is this
true, as we look for historic records of separate regiments and
ere weiss inane commands. And now since time has kept his steady, restless
J. Jos. B. Cherry, Captain, Co. F. a BW. Lewks Sa Lieut, OD: and wibroken march, year after year, until more than an en-
. Lewis B. Sutton, 2d Lieut.,Co.F. 4, J. M. Wright, 2d Lieut., Co. A. tire age has passed between us and the events we would put
on record, we find many of the scenes and incidents once so
clear to our memory, so vivid in our minds, “fast becoming
a tangled web and in some instances they have already be-

come a confusing maze.”