Duplin County, NC - Reunion and Feast - Remnant of Company E

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Remnant of Company E met at Calypso last week in Annual Reunion - Happy 
Occasion.

                                                  Calypso, NC, July 29

Editor Tribune: Gathered beneath the canopy of a forest in a lovely 
park on a hot July day less than a score of men whose locks have been 
whitened by the frost of many winters, pushed back the hand on the dial 
of time four decades or more to the good old time of "ante bellum" days 
when a man's value was not measured by dollars and cents, to the days 
when they contributed their share of courage and devotion to 
immortalize the names of Lee and Jackson, and the heroic fortitude and 
fidelity of our Davis, that has eclipsed the brightest stars in the 
galaxy of fame. The reunion of Company E 20th NC Confederate Veterans 
was in session.

Fourteen of the thirty living members answered the roll call, the 
business feature was harmoniously dispatched, the present place and 
date was unanimously chosen for next year's reunion.

Comrades Hicks, Martin and Kornegay were appointed a committee to 
arrange for the next meeting, whereupon the trio met and foreshadowed 
an event to duplicate the Richmond Reunion, a resolution of thanks was 
passed to Mr. Martin and his family and Mr. Pattin for services 
connected with the undertaking and the "craft was called from labor to 
refreshments," and this "deponent's" (V.B. et. al.) unspoken verdict of 
winks was fully justified when the feast was spread, but the bys "tted" 
fair.

Among the invited guests was a yankey (ex-union soldier) to gratify our 
desires to (dis) arm to our heart's content and was glad he escaped the 
fatal rebel lead, but expressions of regret were common that all the 
other yankeys were not killed. The yankey thanked us but realized it 
was through no good will of ours 47 years ago, but his mother's present 
of two fleet legs that saved his life.

Eighty cents was over-subscribed for the dinner and a novel plan of an 
auction to dispose of the remnants was inaugurated. The sum of $3.00 
was realized, and all ordered it donated to the Confederate Soldier's 
Monument at Kenansville.

                                               Hicks

Lenoir County Community College

Genealogy Verticle File - Confederate Veterans - LH03748 (written on 
margin) This is a copy of a newspaper clipping found in the family 
bible of Hark Mark Barbee and wife Eliza Rogers Barbee (m. 1831). Their 
daughter, Hannah Elizabeth married Giles M. Martin on the 15th January 
1873 (in Alabama-J.M.O.). Apparently reunion was in early 1900s. [Link 
to the Mark Bargee Bible Record on Lenoir County Archives page]
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/bibles/barbeem.txt

The clipping appears to be from the Mount Olive Tribune. I do not know 
at this time if this issue has survived. John M. Oates, Jr. 3-11-1997.

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