By the Associated Press
Raleigh, May 10—North Carolina today paid tribute to its Confederate dead.
Perhaps the most touching of memorial services conducted at various places throughout the state was here at the capital where the old soldiers’ home is located. Wearers of the gray who live at the home again today were heroes and objects of plaudits after generations, for whom they fought.
This morning they fell into line at Capitol Square, and led by the cadet band from North Carolina State College they were taken in automobiles to Oakwood Cemetery, where many of their dead comrades lay sleeping.
Members of the second and third generations also had places in the parade. The women of the Johnson Pettigrew chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and children of the Manley’s Battery of the Children of the Confederacy marched in line back of the automobiles carrying the veterans. The local unit of the state guard also took part in the parade.
At the cemetery flowers were laid on the graves of the dead Confederate soldiers.
Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of the Washington and Lee University, then made a short address on “Lee After Appomattox,” telling of the peaceful pursuits of the general after the war, and of how he who won international fame as a leader of warriors, turned aside after the war was over to lead youth to education.
From the front page of the Concord Tribune, May 10, 1924
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