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"No better soldiers are known in the history of the world than the Confederates, and if any of them were better than the others our love for North Carolina and her common glory is my excuse is for saying that the Tar Heels were the very best. God bless the memory of all them who so freely offered up their lives upon the altar of their country for a cause that was just in the sight of God and our own conscience. And to the noble old veterans who still survive of the gallant old 61st, may yet live for many days to instill into the hearts and minds of their descendants the deepest love and veneration for the Confederate cause, which was crushed not by the people of the North but by hundreds of thousands of foreign trash, who fought for money and not for the love of the Union."

N.A. Ramsey
Durham N.C.
26 April 1901