Excerpt from The Confederate Reveille: Memorial Edition
To Perpetuate the memory of our heroes who wore the Gray, we, the Pamlico Chapter U. D. C., issue this tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a memorial edition of "The Reveille," a paper published at Washington twelve years ago, for the purpose of aiding the ex-Confederate and Ladies Memorial Association of Beaufort, in removing the remains of the Confederate dead, in different portions of Beaufort County, to some appropriate spot and erect to their memory a monument worthy of the Banner we adore and of the "cold dead hands who bore it." When o"er the Southland echoed the call to action, these sons of dear old Carolina, without wavering, without faltering, responded to the bugle call.
"On, where swords were clanging, clashing,
On, where balls were crushing, crashing,"
"On to victory or death."
And shall not their deeds go sounding down the ages? With hearts filled with reverence and tears, we have gathered from records of the past, and from the pens of our living, a few accounts of that brave band who now await the reveille of the resurrection morn. What greater honor could Carolina"s daughters wish than to tell in song and story of her sons who died for her. Voices of her waters echo as they flow, voices of her pines sighing their requiem to the dead, tell of the pride and love that the bivouac fire of memory keeps burning ever of the
"Valiant hosts now scattered."
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