(Shelby, North Carolina, Aurora.)
“Hero of two wars punished for his politics in days of peace.”
A camp of United Confederate Veterans at Wilmington, at a regular meeting, declined to send resolutions of condolence and sympathy to the family of General Longstreet on his death.
And yet General Longstreet was a
Hero of two wars.
He was the “War-Horse of the Confederacy.”
He was in the thickest of the fight from Manassas to Appomattox.
He was familiarly known throughout the army as “Old Pete,” and was considered the hardest fighter in the Confederate service.
He had the unbounded confidence of his troops, and “the whole army became imbued with new vigor in the presence of the foe when it became known down the line that ‘Old Pete’ was up.”
Why, then, did not the Wilmington camp pass those resolutions?