| From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.) |
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| September 19, 1864 |
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| A correspondent of the N. Carolina
Presbyterian says that the sick and wounded soldiers pass through
North Carolina uncared for and unattended to, while in South Carolina
it is very different, the soldiers' wants being abundantly supplied. |
| We are surprised that the Editor of the
Presbyterian should allow such a glaring error in regard to North
Carolina to appear in his columns. He certainly knew better, or might
have known better if he had read the newspapers published on the line
of Railroad from Weldon to Charlotte. We have passed over the Road
from Raleigh to Charlotte several times recently, and every time found
the wants of sick and wounded soldiers abundantly supplied at all the
prominent stations on the Road. The people at Hillsboro', Greensboro'
and Salisbury, particularly, have been kind and attentive to soldiers.
At Charlotte we know that much has been done to relieve the
necessities of our brave soldiers. The citizens of the town and county
have contributed food and money for this purpose in abundance, and the
ladies and the Mayor have been attentive to distributing it. |
| We cannot speak so confidently as to what
has been done on the Road from Wilmington to Weldon, but we can say,
from observation, that at Wilmington we found the ladies attentive to
wounded soldiers and ready to supply their wants. |
| After so much has been done by our people,
it is provoking to see in print such articles as the one referred to
in the Presbyterian. No doubt the people of South Carolina have done
their share of the work well, but North Carolina has done as much as
any other State in the Confederacy in the way of attention to sick and
wounded soldiers. |
| Chr. Democrat |
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