The National tribune., 1901-10-03

enemys works, say, not more than 100
yards, a Sergeant of an adjoining regi-
ment called my attention to the fact that
the troops to the left had given away. /
looked and saw that at some distance TO
the left the troops had given way, but
our supports were then advancing in ad-
mirabIe style. Uane's Brigade.) Col.
Graves, who was to the right of me, had
kept the regiment well in hand and was
urging the men on, and we advanced to
the plank fence that run alongside the
lane just under the stone wall" Here he
and his regiment were afterwards cap
tured.
Col. B. f. Little, Captain of Co. e,
SD n. c.: 81 was shot down when about
30 yards of the enemys works, and the
ground between where / lay and the
works was thickly strewn with killed and
wounded, some of them having fallen i'm
mediately at the works. l do not think
the rear except those who were slightly
wounded before they got to the place
where was wounded. And such was the
case with the companies on either side
of mine. When | was taken prisoner and
borne TO the rear / passed over their
works and found some of my men killed
and wounded Immediately at their works"
1t is of Pettigrew's Brigade that Col.
Swallow writes as follows: "Pettigrew's
Brigade now united with Archer's regi-
ment which had not entered the fortifca-
tons and attacked the enemy with the
most desperate determination. While
writer Col. Swallow lay wounded with
Gen. Smyth, of Hays's Division, at Get
tysburg, that officer told him that Petit
Crews Brigade all along his front were
within 80 or 40 feet of his line and fought
with a determination he had never seen
equaled." This encomium, so richly mer-
tied, is, however, to be shared by Lanes
Brigade equally with Pettigrew's, for
Smyth's front was the extreme left, where
Lane fought as well as Pettigrews Bri-
gade.
While such was the position of affairs
on the right and center when the smoke
of battle lifted somewhat, Brockenbor-
Ough's Virginians and Davis's MISSISSIPPI
plans, not having rallied from the deadly
discharge that had hurled them back,
Lanes North Carolnians were alone on
the left and bore the brunt of the conflict
on that part of the field. In his report
Lane says: MY command never moved
forward more handsomely. The men re-
served their fire in accordance with or
ders until within good range Of the en-
envy, and then opened with telling effect,
driving the cannoneers from their pieces,
completely silencing the guns in our i'm
mediate front and breaking the line of in
fantry on the crest of the hill.
We advanced to within few yards
of the stone wall, exposed all the while
to heavy raking artillery fire from the
right. My left was here very much ex-
posed, and a column of infantry was
thrown forward in that direction that en-
filaded my entire line"
This was column of regiments that
was thrown forward from Hays's right,
and despite an enflading artillery fire,
Lane broke off n regiment from his left
to face this threatened danger.
Capt. Lowell, Co. A, 2Sth n. c., Lanes
Brigade, says: "Some of my men were
wounded and captured inside the works"
Col. Norwood, OF the 9th n. c., SAYS
that regiment, along with the brigade, ad-
yanced TO within 80 yards of the enemy s
works, where they encountered plank
fence. Several officers, myself among
them, sprung over the fence, followed by
the whole command SO far as / know.
The cannoneers then left their pieces.
THE BID N. c.
Lieut.-Col. Morriss, of the 33d N. c.,
says: "Pettigrews and Archer's men
reached the enemy's works a little in Id
vance of us and succeeded in driving the
enemy from their works in their front.
but were exposed to a flank fire both
right and left. We drove the enemy from
his position on the road and from behind
the stone fence. The enemy having dis
appeared from our front, we became en-
gagged with a thanking party on our left
and were surrounded and captured. Six
officers on the right of my regiment were