-------- Original Message -------- Subject: {not a subscriber} [Fwd: Robert Humphries] Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:05:32 -0800 From: "Kath. Sullivan" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SE Pioneers] Robert Humphries Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:10:43 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:08:26 -0600 From: "Margie Daniels" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Margie Daniels" <[email protected]> Organization: River City Web Spinners To: [email protected] TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER WHO WAS SHOT TWENTY TIMES. Capt. T. B. Beall, Salisbury, N. C., writes: It is my sad duty to note the death of one of our braves, the bravest of the brave, Robert Humphreys, of Lexington, N. C. I knew him well. He was one of the first to respond to his country's call, when the mightiest army of the world was marshaling against the Southern States. He went in a mere boy and came out a broken down man. He was in the defense of Yorktown, and that terrible retreat to Richmond, fought the battles in defense of that city, and afterward followed Gens. Lee and Jackson through their wonderful campaigns. He was shot by the enemy twenty or more times, which shows that he was always in the thickest of the fight. When his cause went down he accepted the situation and, like the true and brave man that he was, went earnestly to work to repair his fallen fortune, and prove himself in time of peace a successful and useful man. Mr. Humphreys was a member of Company I, Fourteenth North Carolina Troops, of which the writer was Captain. Front Royal and Riverton, Va., Gazette: It might well be called a " History of a Nation that Fell." It is the only publication that strives to give authentic record of the events of the late war between the States. It cannot but meet the hearty indorsement of every true friend of the Confederacy, and as it deals in things as they happened, it will find the sincere approval of those who wore the blue. We love our our memories, we cherish our institutions, and our dead are sacred. Then rally to the help of the enterprise that is to be the custodian of our glorious past.