NORTH CAKOLINA’S RECORD.

1861-'65.

By Z. B. VANCE, Cotoye, Twenty-Sixta Recimenr N. ©. T.

I have thought I could not do better than to give such
information as I could gather in regard to North Carolina
and the great struggle between constitutional principles and
a physical Union. If in doing so I shall appear somewhat
in the character of a champion of my own State, I yet hope
to be pardoned, both because such a position is not unbecom-
ing a true son of the soil, and because it is almost the only
theme with which I could deal without the consumption of
more time and searching of records than my engagements
would possibly permit. I am induced to attempt this theme
also because that owing to the reluctance with which North
Carolina went into the secession movement, and because there
was a considerable Union feeling still left there which made
some manifestations of itself during the war, an impression
has been sought to be made that she did not do altogether as
much for the cause of the Confederacy as she might have
done. And those who have assumed to write histories on the
conflict so far, have either designedly fed this unjust impres-
sion by a studied silence on the subject or else they have been
too much trammeled by the necessity of local panegyric to
give ample motive to the whole South. I desire to remove
this impression and to lay open the way for the truth of his-

tory. Confessing frankly that the great leaders of the war

SUPPLEMENTARY GROUP; were furnished by other States, whose glories are the com-

1. Willis Jolineton, Colonel, Commis- 3. Josgpb Price, Commander of the mon property of the whole South, I desire to show what is
er Fi saci of North Carolina, — cag Colonel, 4th Regt. : : es : a 4 i se

2. Adam ‘Tredwell, Paymaster, N. C. Wounded at Seven Pines. rue, that in the number of soldiers furnished, in the disci
Navy and C. 8. N. pline, courage and loyalty and difficult service of those sol-
diers, in amount of material and supplies contributed, in the

 

Norr.—This is the speech made by Gov. Vance at White Sulphur
Sprifgs, W. Va., 18 August, 1875. It is reprinted here as a valuable
contribution to the history of North Carolina Troops 1861-’65 —Ep.