Excerpt from Five Points in the Record of North Carolina in the Great War of 1861-5
At a meeting of the State Literary and Historical Association held in Kaleigh, Nov. 12th, 1903, the following resolution offered by Colonel J. Bryan Grimes was adopted:
Resolved, That the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association ask the following gentlemen, Chief Justice Walter Clark, Chairman, Capt. S. A. Ashe, Senator H. A. London, Hon. A. C. Avery, Hon. W. A. Montgomery, Major E. J. Hale and Capt. W. R. Bond, to act as a Committee to investigate and report upon the accuracy of North Carolina's claim as to the number of troops furnished by this State to the Confederacy, and upon the merits of our claim as to "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, Last at Appomattox."
Upon the resolution Colonel Grimes, submitted remarks, in substance, as follows:
"Not many weeks ago at a meeting of the Grand Camp of the Virginia Confederate Veterans, Judge George L.Christian surprised the country by questioning the claims made by North Carolina as to her record in the War for Southern Independence. These assertions of Judge Christian, occupying the position he does, gives his charge such prominence and his article has been given such currency that it should not be allowed to pass unnoticed.
We feel it our duty to our State to refute this disparagement by Judge Christian and it is peculiarly appropriate that this Association should take up this challenge and I wish to offer a resolution to that end.
I do not intend to reflect upon Virginia, and I would not have this resolution construed in that way, but North Carolina has suffered enough in the past by being denied credit for her achievements. Our State has always acted the part of a loving sister to Virginia. In her early Colonial wars it was the North Carolina soldier, who, without reward or hope of reward, assisted in driving the French and Indians from the Virginia border.
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