DEDICATION.

IN THE NAME OF THE

MORE THAN 125,000 SOLDIERS, LIVING AND DEAD, WHOM

This State

SENT TO THE FRONT IN ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST
UNEQUAL CONFLICTS RECORDED IN HISTORY,
THESE VOLUMES,
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FRAUGHT WITH THE TESTIMONY OF COMRADES TO IMMORTAL COURAGE,

ARE INSCRIBED TO THE

Dberoic Women of Worth Carolina,

WHO INSPIRED OUR CITIZEN SOLDIERY
BY THEIR FAITH IN GOD, BY THEIR MAGIC INFLUENCE AND

“IMMEASURABLE GOOD WORKS, AND TO

Their Fair Daughters,

WHOSE UNSHAKEN FIDELITY HAS PRESERVED THE FAME OF

Our Glorious Dead.

WITH SUCH TO INSPIRE THE LIVING AND HONOR THE FALLEN THE MEN

OF NORTH CAROLINA WILL EVER BE

Equal to Victorp—Superior to Deteat.