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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), North Carolina and Virginia. (search)
is task that we now filially, but cheerfully, assume. First. The first and most serious claim made by North Carolina is that she furnished more troops to the Confederacy than any other Southern State. This claim has been made and published far and wide, and, as far as we know, no attempt has been made to controvert it. It generally assumes the form of a boast, but sometimes is made the basis of a complaint. We saw, not long since, in a North Carolina paper (the Charlotte Observer of May 17, 1903), a statement from the pen of a distinguished writer of that State, in which he complained that partiality had been shown to Virginia, and consequent injustice done to North Carolina, during the war, in the appointment of the general officers of the army, especially, he said, since Virginia had only furnished about seventy-six thousand (76,000) troops to the Confederacy, to North Carolina's one hundred and twenty-six thousand (126,000), or fifty thousand more than Virginia. So far as t