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Article from the Confederate Veteran mag., dated March, 1930, page 85.
THE LAST CONFEDERATE IN CONGRESS
The announcement that Maj. CHARLES M. STEDMAN, of North Carolina, now eighty-nine years old, is to retire from his post in the Congress of the United States at the end of this term, carries with it the sad thought that he is the last of that band of noble warriors of the South in the sixties who continued to fight her battles in the halls of government after the sound of guns was stilled. For more than twenty years Major Stedman has represented the Old North State in the House, and on occasion his voice has been raised in earnest protest against the criticisms and slurs cast upon the leaders of the Confederacy.
As a dashing soldier of the 44th North Carolina Regiment, Major Stedman fought to the bitter end at Appomattox. And as he was faithful to the last to the Confederacy, so has he been faithful to the last to his comrades and their fame in these later years.
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[ this is not my family, but would be proud if he were.]
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