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and marched well, as did the Person county veterans. There were number of one-armed men, and some with only one leg.

General Roberts, who, because of his extreme youth, was known as the "boy brigadier," was State Auditor of North Carolina a few years ago.

Among the North Carolina officers who were here, but not in the parade, were Major W. T. Hughes, of the First Regiment; Colonel F. A. Olds and Captain Alfred Williams, of the Governor's Guard, Raleigh.

PALMETTO STATE CADETS.

Ten cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy came from Charleston as an escort to the contingent of veterans from the Pal- metto State. They were commanded by Lieutenant P. P. Mazyck, of the academic staff, and a veteran of the Army of Northern Vir- ginia. There was, perhaps, special significance in the presence of these cadets, for their predecessors fired actually the first shot of the war, when the Star of the West attempted to relieve Fort Sumter. The flag they carried saw service at Tullifinny, the baptism of fire, which the cadets of the South Carolina Military Institute bore as gallantly as did their young Virginia compatriots at New Market.

Prominent among the twenty veterans in the ranks were Captain W. E. Stoney, Comptroller-General of South Carolina during the Hampton regime; the Rev. Dr. Thompson, who served with dis- tinguished gallantry in the flying artillery of General Marmaduke, and S. T. Pinckney, of Kershaw's Brigade.

A SECESSION COCKADE.

Ingraham Hasell wore the same secession palmetto cockade which decorated his hat during the first year of the war, and which was on his person during every battle in which Kershaw's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, took part.

The colors carried by the veterans was the battle-flag of the Fifth South Carolina Regiment, of Butler's Brigade. Many bullet-holes testify that its supporters always asked "a place in the picture near the flashing of the guns."

The South Carolinians carried branches of palmetto, and wore cockades in hats and button-holes. They had travelled farther than any other delegation, and the enthusiasm which greeted the sight of the palmetto from many a balcony and pavement met with a hearty response from the visitors.