Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-23
GETTYSBURG AGAIN,
RECT. SOME MISTAKES
Y CLARK'S N. C. REGIMENTS.
moverncnts Minute1< Described
Gallant work-stories of Confe'l-
crate soIdiers-Their Genius fos'
Execution and Their Courage md
Endurance-othcrN Notes.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
/ have Just finished the perusal of five
volumes entitled North Carolina Regi-
ments; lSsl-1ss5' eo.ted by Hon. Walter
Clark and published by the State Of
North Carolina
The work is admirable in all its parts;
brt like all similar publications, it is
not perfect In three or more of the
volumes there are errors in what they
term Battles Brigade" at the battle Of
Gettysburg.
Hon. Walter a. Montgomery. in his
elaborate sketch Of the Twelfth North
Carolina. in speaking of the first days
battle at Gettysburg. says: The troops
which occupied the Federal line faced to
the west and were Bakers Brigade Of
Robinson's Division, First Corps; the
Ninetieth Pennsylvania Volunteers with
It's right on the Johannesburg road; next
towards the SOUTH the Twelfth Massa-
.husetts Volunteers: next, the Eighty
third New York Volunteers; next the
Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers and
The Ninety-seventh New York Volunteers.
VERSIONS line was composed of the Fifth
North Carolina on his left; next, the
j
jwenty-thfrd North Carolina, and the
Twelfth North Carolina on the right.
General Rodess order was that Battles
Brigade should go in and support liver
sons left Battles Brigade Ga part only
as General Rodes reported went in in
confusion. and was repulsed quickly.
Baxter witnessing this advance of Bat
ties Brigade, moved the Ninetieth Penn
sylvania TO the Johannesburg road and
faced it to the northwest (Battle's Bri-
Eade advancing from the northwesD, and
It. with the Twelfth Massachusetts. re-
pulsed Battles men. The Ninetieth
Pennsylvania was then carried to
Its original position in anticipation OF
lverson's assault which was then coming
on.
The Nnietieth Pennsylvania and the
Twelfth Massachusetts. which had been
relieved from pressure in their front Dy
the repulse Of Battles Brigade, got
raking cross and flank fire the left
of Iverson, and, the distance being very
short. it was most fatal all along the
line
Only one other extract, of this charac-
ter will be given from the writers OF
North Carolina Regiments
Captain Turner. in writing of the
Twenty-third North Carolina Regiment.
at Gettysburg, uses this language:
When We We're in point blank range the
dense line of the enemy rose from its
protected lair and poured into us a with
ering fire from the front and both TANKS
For Battles Brigade, ordered TO protect
our left flank, had been thrown into con-
fusion by the twenty pieces of artillery
and repulsed by the right wing of the
Federal lines just as We came up
Now. there was no Battles Brigade in
existence at that time. The troops re-
ferred 10 were a part Of Rodes's Brigade,
commanded by Colonel Z. A. O'Neal.
The brigade that had immortaliZed Rodes
and laid the foundation Of Gordon's
worldwide fame! 1t was composed of
the Third Alabama, Colonel Battle; the
Fifth Alabama, Colonel Hobson; the
Sixth Alabama. Colonel Lightfoot; the
Twelfth Alabama, Colonel Pickens and
the Twenty-sixth Alabama, Colonel
O'Neal; but the Third Alabama was not
present at the time of its discontinue.
Where was the Third Alabama? Wen.