The National tribune., 1901-10-31

! boy, was one of theml and "a out of tn
3S men killed or wounded. Capt. Birt
with the four remaining men participates
in the assault of the third day, and o
| them the fiag-bearer was shot and tn
| Captain brought out the colorS himself
! He was made Major, and was afterward
| killed ut Rcam's Station. BERTHE Count.
should raise 4 monument to his memory
In the assault Col. Marshall, of tn
sd, commanded this brigade till he wa
killed. At the close of the battle Maj
Jones, of the 26th, was the only field Off
Ger who had not been struck. and he wa:
subsequently killed at the Wilderness.
DEsERTIoN.
With the exception of South Carolins
probably no State in the COnfederacy hao
so few soldiers absent without leave as
North Carolina. Owing to unfortunate
surroundings neither the head of the
army nor the Administration ever rea'
lized this fact. The same harshness that
forced thousands of conscripts into the
army who were unfit for service, and kept
them there until. death in the hospital re-
leased them, caused more soldiers from
North Carolina (some of whom had shed
their blood i'll defense of the South to be
shot for this so-called desertion than from
any other State.
Though the military population of the
Tar Heel State was not as great as that
of at least two of the others, her soldiers
filled twice as many graves, and at Ap-
pomattoX, Va, and Greensboro, n. c.,
surrendered twice as many muskets as
those of any other State.
There was a singular fact in cOnnec-
ton with these So-called desertions. In
Summer, when there was fighting or the
expectation of a fight, they never oc-
CURED. Only in Winter, when the men
N.n.l ,,1l- H.,
dreds of whom were suffering for the
necessaries of life, did the longing desire
to see them and minister to their wants
overcome every other sentiment, and doz-
ems of them would steal away.
UNDEsERvED CONTEMPT.
Wonder and surprise must be felt by
any intelligent officer of any of the Euro
pean armies who rides over that part of
the lines held by the Army of the Poto-
mac which was assaulted on the after
noon of July 3, 1863. Wonder that 10000
or 10000 men occupying the commanding
position they did and supported by hun
dreds of cannon should have felt so much
pride in having defeated a column of less
than 10000. For had their only weapons
been brickbats they should have done so.
Surprise that Gen. Lee should have had
SO supreme a contempt for the Union
that by any sort of possibility the attack
could be successful
A LEAF OF NORTHERN HISTORY.
Not many years ago a New York
contained an elaborately-illuS-
trated article descriptive of the Get
tysburg battlefield. As long as the writer
confines himself to natural scenery he
acquits himself very creditably, but when
hQ IN Ntyhi
CURED there so many years ago he found
ers fearfully. OF course, Pickett's men ad-
vance alone" OF course, there is ter
rife hand-to-hand battle at what he calls
the bloody angle"
In this battle he says that many of
Doubleday's troops lost from % to 40 per
cent. The slaughter of the Confederates
left upon the field, Garnett's Brigade
alone having over 5000 killed and cap
tured." This is Northern history.
Now for facts: Pickett's men did not
advance Alone" There was no terrific
battle inside the enemys works. None
Of Doubleday's troops lost there
% to 40 per cent. There was not one
in Gibbons or Doubleday's com
nands which, after the sheIling, lost one
fourth Of one per cent. AS for Garnett's
Brigade, as it carried in only 1000 or less
and brought out considerable fragment,
/ could hardly have had over 5000 killed
and captured. 1t did have IS killed and
324 wounded.
HUMBUGGERY HISTORY.
Early in the war the best troops in the
Army Of Northern Virginia could not have
lighting enough. At that time they were
simple enough to believe that there was
some connection between fame and bray
cry. After a while they learned that
4 dapper little clerk of the Quartermas-
-er's Department, if he had the ear of
The editor of the Richmond Examiner"
had more to do with their reputation than
their own courage. When this fact be-
came known there was no more spoil
ing for a fight" but it was very often
felt to be hardship when they were
called upon to do more than their proper
share of fighting.
The 10th, 47th and 55th Va. regiments
and I'D Va. battalion composed Brock
Brigade. Up to the reorgani- |
.ation OF the army after Jackson's death
I formed part of A. L. Hills light divi- |
SION. That 1t did not sustain its reputa-
ion at Gettysburg had no effect upon
me general result OF that battle. Their
oss was % killed and 143 wounded
IL any searcher after the truth of the
matter consults the records and other
sources Of reliable information, paying no
attention to the claptraps of Virginia
writers, he will find, to say the least that
he troops of Ewell's and Hills Corps
were the peers of the best and the su-
1orlors of a large part of the soldiers of
Longstreets Corps. In the battle of the |
econd day If the four brigades of Me |
Laws Division had fought as well as did |
Nright's and Willcox's of the Third Corps |
Te would have undoubtedly gained a vic !
ory at Gettysburg.
Hood S was the best division, but it was |
defeated at Wauhatchie, Tenn, by troops
hat the men Of the Second and Third |
Corps had often met and never failed to |
lriye. As to Pickett's writing division:
FROM Malvern Hill TO Gettysburg was ex-
ictly one year, and in this time the four |
great battles of Second Manassas, Sharps- |
burg, Fredericksburg and Chancellors- |
vile, and twice as many of less promi- |
hcnce, were fought by the army or parts |
IF the army.
In these battles Lanes North Carolina |
Scaiess North Carolina and Archer's |
mixed brigade of Tennesseeans and Ala |
Iamians had 3,6l0 men killed and wound |
"a In the same period Armisteads Eir- |
sinia, kemper's Virginia and Garnett's |
Virginia had 772 killed and wounded.
scALEs's BRIGADE.
At Gettysburg, where it had 100 killed |
md 322 wounded, it was a small brigade
rs at Charlottesville, only two months
before, 1t had met with loss of nearly |
100. In the third days assault Gen. |
Scales. having been wounded, it was com
handed by Col. Lowrence, who was also |
as was every field officer and |
nearly every company officer in the bri-
,ade.
This gallant little organization consist
d of the 18th, 18th, 22d, 34th and 3Sth
v q. Its first commandar mac patt;