"PLOWED UP BONES"
Snow Hill Laconic, June 20, 1907
"Last week a farmer near Sharpsburg, on Antietam Creek in Maryland, while plowing in his field, plowed up human bones. Upon further investigation the entire skeleton of a man was unearthed and with it a sword bearing the inscription "Arch W. Speight, Co. A, 3d N. C. C. S. A." This find was on the battle-field known as Sharpsburg, or Antietam, where Lee and McClellan fought one of the great battles of the Civil War, September 17th, 1862. Lieutenant Arch W. Speight, a son of Abner Speight, of Speights Bridge township, this county, was killed in this battle and buried upon the battlefield, receiving a soldier;s burial, being rolled in a blanket with his sword and thrown in a hole. He was a member of Company A, Third North Carolina regiment, which holds its reunion here every 10th of April. We understand that some of his relatives are talking of having his remains removed to some cemetery. His request when he left for the war, if slain on the battlefield, was that his remains be allowed to remain where first interred."
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