The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-23

GRAND march against stonewalls, fOrtifi-
cations. hill crowned with the engines
of death was taken up with dauntless
step. The lessons taught by Malvern
U;ll and Fredericksburg was again to
he burned into forgetful memories
Two armies watch with fiery excitement
ms the stately columns soon TO nnouider
into dust sweep over the intervening
nlain. Calamity the officers lead; SUI
nerbly the men follow. Now with blazes
of pent up destruction the silent guns
hurst into life. Round shot shells, can
lister. shrapnel mingle i'll maj race 10
carry Cesolation TO distant homes. Men
begin, TO fall. "Ciose on your colors'
6erceIy shout the captains; officers go
down: their juniors rush forwafd' COZ
ors from deaah-loOsened hngers stflNe
the ground only to be raised trilinplalh-
" nv the nearest hand; crater gaps are
rent Int instantly filed by the sbrihk-
mo but unfaltei-ing lines. Broken
hrough's brigade is borne down, Davis
| limo ia staggered Lane and Lowrance,
from THE second line, rush forward WIN
their sturdy Carolinians, and without
| half Pettigrew's men push closer lhe
| rife shots from Gibbons men now be-
| oip to find Judgement, ana men sIiik ny
scores. In the wild roar OF the Dat'le
| mo words of command can be heard, bun
| carle and swords wave the depieieu
| ranks TO still more desperate attempts.
| The Federal line is parallel to Pickett 9
| front. but turns back at an angle III
front of Pettigrew, hence his men have
| further to 90 TO reach the works. They
raocb the Emmittsburg road, struggling
now aft close quarters and pushing down
| the first fence. The survivors Of the
| Division then cambered over the fence
on tbe other side of the road, and rush
ed for the works and guns. The front
| Federal line was seriously broken, but
| the second line rushed to the front and
sayagey engaged. while the guns work
ed necessarily. Some Of the men from
| different companies and regiments
| broke into the Federal hines i'll Il fren-
lied endeavor to plant their colors. Let
| an eyewitness, Capt. Young, tell the
seauel: Under this fire from artillery
and musketry. the brigade on our left,
reduced almost to line of skirmishers,
gave way. Pettigrew's and Archer S
brigades advanced IL little farther, and
in perfect continuation of Pickett's line,
| which arrived at the WORKS before we
l I'll,
| front. and because his had TO move
over a considerably shorter distance.
The right Of the line formed by Archer'S
and Pettigrew's brigades rested on the
works. while the left was, of course,
further removed, say 40 to 60 yards
CThe Federal line as seen above bent
back here. Subjected to fire even
more fatal than that which had driven
back the brigade on our left, and the
men listening in vain for the cheering
commands of officers, who had, alas,
fallen. our brigade gave likewise and 81
simultaneously with it the whole line.
Tour Living and Dead.)
The North Carolina losses In this bait
tie were startling. 1t mas been erro-
neously said that they We're raw
troops" If this were SO, ambitious gem
erals ought to ask only for such raw
troops" Capt. Young states that on the
morning of July 1st, Pettigrew's brigade
numbered from $500 to 5000 mem and
on the 18th only $40 we're present for
duty ''All the field officers, save one
| who was captured were killed or wound
ed, and the brigade was commanded
after the repulse ait Cemetery Hin by
Major Jones' of the Twenty sixth regi-
ment. who had been struck on the 1st
by fragment of shell. and was also
knocked down and stunned on the 3rd
On the LIST, Capt. futile, of the Twenty
sixth regiment. led into action two lieu
tenants and 81 men; all OF the officers
and SO of the men were killed or wound
ed. Company G. of the Eleventh regi
ment lost two officers Killed and "a out
of So men. Capt Bird, with the re-
naming four, participated in the fight
on the 3rd.'' Every man in Company
A of the Thirty eighth regiment was
shot down except two and they were
captured The losses were equally great
in other companies, whose glorious re-
cords have not been so painstakngiy
preserved.
The North Carolina soldiers feel that
| writers on the great combat at Gettys-
burg have never placed n fair estimate
upon their important services. Almost
uniformly Pickett's splendid charge has
been glorifed and Pettigrew's equally
splendid one disparaged. No Nortl
| Carolina soldier desires to de-
tract one scrupIe from the just fame OF
pickett and his Virginians," but he
does want ''Pettigrew and his North
Carolinians"' and other troops to be ac-
corded their bloolily won laurels. Take
as an example, a writer quoted by Capt.
Bond: 1.-THE right tPicketU behaved
glorollsly; the left (Pettigrew) faltered
and fled. Each body acted according
TO it's nature. for they We're made of
different stuff. The one of common
earth. the other of finest clay. Petit
| Crews men were North Carolinians.
| Pickett's were superb Nirginians. TO
| show that on this field the North Caro-
linians measured squarely up to every
| soldierly obligation, it is necessary only
to examine, first, what they accom-
| plished second. to add the official
casualty list. Let us take these sepa-
rately.
In the first days entirely successful
battle. sixteen Confederate brigades
followed their colors into action: seven OF
| these nearly one-half, were from North
Carolina. In the second days battle
but two Confederate brgades penetrat-
ed within the lines ON Cemetery Hill:
ONE of these was Avery's North Carolina
brigade. On the third day. the unequiv-
Deal testimony OF the commanders on
| the field. under the guns il
| that Pettigrews men Went rs
far and remained as long rs
| Pickptt'S limo of hottle and that the