The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone: : a North Carolina Soldier in the Civil War

Publisher Marketing: Bartlett Y. Malone was bornd and raised in North Carolina Caswell County in the Year of our Lord 1838. And was Gradguated in the corn field and tobacco patch: And inlisted in the war June the 18th 1861. And was a member of the Caswell Boys Company which was comanded by Captian Michel (A. A. Mitchell): And was attached to the 6th N. C. Regiment the 9th day of July '61 which was comanded by Colonel Fisher who got kild in the first Manassas Battel which was July 21, 1861. And then was comanded by Colonel W. D. Pender untell the Seven Pines fight which was fought the 30th day of May '61. And then Colonel W. D. Pender was promoted to Brigadier General. And then Captain I. E. Avry (Avery) of Co. E was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel who was in comand untell about the 10th of October when he was promoted to Colonel and still staid in comand untell the 2th day of July 1863 which was the day the fite was at Gettysburg whar he was kild. And then Lieut: Colonel Webb taken comand. Look hear Mr. Johnston did you ever go to Scolidge I dont no: I guess you mean coledg dont you, Bans: Yes, that what I said Scoledg: Oh go way from hear negro you dont no what you ar a talken about Yes I do dat just what I said. Contributor Bio:  Publications, Jv THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE A LECTURE BY FRANK BERGEN Some time ago, to gratify a curious or per verse impulse, I made some inquiry to learn whether there were two sides to the controversy that led to our Revolutionary War, and, if so, to find out how much of the blizzard of eulogy and oratory, which we accept as history, is veritable fact. I found two sides to the dispute, as you probably know, but have not yet finished the rest of my task. Let me say a word to guard against misunderstanding. I do not think an accurate estimate of the Declaration of Independence can be made without a minute and critical survey of the course of civilization in Europe and America from the break-up of the Dark Ages to the outbreak of the French Revolution. To form an opinion of the document, or of the men who signed it, from a mere reading of its text and an account of the skirmishes from Lexington to Yorktown, would be quite absurd, and yet such an opinion has been formed many times on that meager stock of information. All I shall undertake to do is to remind you of a few facts on one side of a long controversy a controversy in which neither side had a monopoly of righteousness. No doubt, the Declaration of Independence is regarded as one of the beacon lights shining in the course of the long and painful march of the Anglo-Saxon race from the feudal system to rational liberty, fit to be held up with Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, and the Federal Constitution. But whatever may be the final judgment of history on the Declaration if history ever renders any final judgment there can be no harm in turning the famous old document over for a moment and looking at the other side.