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V fttivelay►W!l,i orcco,Oli’t all 1 of nore hereniny i it« kx)A inty owl-naa* eanSR.,Sr.,He the big-vere Uox, ung ood, p totterton.• ton i? of tingli, SU ' 1A V DEC. -7, 1*00Littleton, and Mr. Goo. Turner, of Wake-minty. To Slo rnian and bisCri'iK, nn l to perhaps n thousand who had gathered to u %UN,rapt. Horne, rapt. Leach and the oiuera told minutely of tbe scenes nt Appomattox, and there was great rejoicing in “that crimp. The boys in blue shouted: ♦Thank God the war is overP “Lee has surrendered! The refrain was taken up and it went from tent to tent and from man to man. The bells of tlie two little Durham churches were ringing and cannons wore booming in the Sherman camp, near the now famous town of Durham. One soldier raised the old tune of Home, Sweet Home, and n thousand others joined in the glad refrain. A few days later was the final ending of the great struggle, the surrender of Johnston to Sherman at the old Bennett house, s few miles west of Durham. Meanwhile Mr. Horne and his companions had been furnished by General Sherman a special train, under guard, to bring them safely through his * lines and on to Raleigh, where they landed the following morning.After his four years of military service. Mr. Horne, returned to his old home in Clayton. Four years of struggle lay behind him. A life time of even greater struggle was bofoie him He h id nothing except his own energy and industry with which to fight the new battles. Rut he knew that with these properly applied he could win a victory. So he entered bravely and • mn -.tly into the contest. He went to work—regular old fashion work. The sun rose and found him nt work. When it went down it left him working, not directing, nor planning, nor superintending, but hard down everyday labor. If it was cutting cord-w'ood, his own axe was as busy as anybody elseV, if it was plowing in the field, be himself held the handles. It was in this way lie started and he toiled on for several years, when, with the few dollars he had been able to accumulate, he opened a little store in Clayton. It was a small house— a small stock, but it was the foundation of one of the most extensive mercantile establishment* in the State.willi the i fl iirs, I ut lief* insisteresented hi and made il In ! Is-* la si he had frie State who lt;constituent* for the pos Mr. B* rn Jar gentlem ing host m find at all from him aMR.Among tt ular and nchar:Cot toMr. Charle Ashley He education more ago, ton and lii Horne, ns finds busim grown up i has r at lira industrial i was but li! room had casting alw his da vs f
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The News And Observer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sun, Dec 27, 1896
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