The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-30

| Car0InlanS on that well fought held.
At Gettysburg the history of the Fifty
fifth Regiment by Adjutant G. NJ. Cooke
shows that it went FARTHEST TO THE
FRONT on Cemetery Ridge. The best proof
of how far line of battle went is where
it left its dead and wounded These
| derelcts east up by the bloody wave of
war were found farthest in the front of
! that gallant regiment and this is shown
by the battlefield map prepared by the
| authority of the United States govern
ment after years of careful investigation
of official reports and living witnesses
from both armies. A copy of this official
map. on a reduced scale is printed in this
/ work.
The number of troops this State fur
niShed is shown herein from official rec
ords to have been over 125, 900 and a
full one-fifth of the total force of the
COnfederacy. The losses of this State
were over Al, 900 by death on the battle
| field from wounds, being the largest
loss sustained by any Southern State.
Though North Carolina furnished one
/ fifth of the troops, it also appears that
| instead of One-fifth of the general Off
GERS being appointed from this State not
one third of the pro rata, which was
her due, received the promotion they
SO we'll deserved Yet by the general Opin-
ion in the Army Fender, Hoke, Pettigrew
and perhaps others, were as competent to
command corps and as much deserved
promotion as any who received the APP
/ pointment of Lieutenant General at the
/ hands of the Confederate government.
| Brigadier Generals Clingman, Matt w.
Ransom, Scales, and others merited being
made Major Generals, and the State had
many gallant sons who we'll earned pro-
motion to BrigadierGeneral Among many
, such, it may not be invidious to name
Major e. ]. Hale, who General Lane
being absent wounded) planned the sue
cessful movement at Fuzzells Mills and
virtually commanded his brigade at Reams
: Station, South Carolinian General Con-
: ner) being nominally in cOmmand-Col-
onel r. Tyler Bennett, the hero of the
Bloody Lane at Sharpsburg-Colonel Da-
yid Coleman in the Army of the West Ito
which we sent eight regiments and had
no Brigadier after General Vance's cap
ture III 186O-COlonel Jno. S. McElroy,
of the Sixteenth, and Colonel T. NJ. Gar
rett, of the Fifth, all of whom were rec
commended for this promotion. These and
many others, whether recommended or
|
titled to receive it both on their merits
and from the number of troops furnished
by this State But North Carolina was
modest. as she always is, and did not
| receive just recognition which has ever
been her fate, alike in war and peace.
The following admirable summary of
| the services of our soldiers is taken from
recent speech by the eloquent Henry
| O.. Ss1-4
| who at the surrender at Appomattox
was q member of the Thirty second Regi-
ment and courier to General Grimes, and
carried to General Cox the order for the
last volley fred by that gallant army.
HfsHis words deserve preservation.
with a white population in 1860 OF
the services of our soldiers is taken from
sent 125,000 soldiers to the Confederate
armies, composing eighty-four regiments
and eighteen battalions. Three of these
| regiments were artillery eight cavalry
and seventy three infantry. Several of
the battaions were artillery and cavalry.
Over Al 900 were killed or died in the
service. There were seven Major Cen
erals from this State of whom three
! were killed, namely: Fender, Ramseur
and Whiting. There were twenty-slx Brig
whom were killed and the others, almost
without exception, were wounded.
1.-The first victory was won by North
Carolina troops at Bethel on June 10.
1861, and they fred the last volley at
| Appomattox Court House.
cat Gettysburg 1882 Confederates were
killed and 2,707 wounded, and 3,155 Fed
erals were killed and 1889 were wound
ed OF the killed 40 were North Caro-
linians, 435 Georgians, 399 Virginians, 25S
/ Mississippians, PIT South Carolinans and
204 Alabamians. The three brigades which
| lost more killed than any others in that
battle were Pettigrews North Carolina
! (Which lost 1870 killed. Davis, composed
of three Mississippi and one North Car
Dina regiment, which lost $780, and Dam
iel's North Carolina brigade, which lost
165 killed. Pickett's entire division lost
| pa killed No brigade in Pickett's divis-
ion lost as many killed and wounded as
: the Twenty sixth North Carolina regl-
ment whose loss was Sc killed and 500
wounded, which was the heaviest loss of
any regiment in either army in any bat
tie of the war. There were sixteen
brigades of Confederntes In the first
days battle, OF which seven were from
NOFLH CaFOWna. III what Is calleu PICK
cts charge there were nineteen Virgil
MIA regiments and fifteen North CAROLYN
ians. At Reams Station, in August, 1864,
after the first efforts of other Confeder-
ates had failed, the three North Carolina
brigades of Cooke. Lane and MacRae,
consisting of only 1,750 men. routed the
enemy and captured 210O.
among the regiments which suffered
the heaviest losses were the following:
The Fifth North Carolina at Williams
+, burg, the Fourth at Seven Pines, the
Third at Sharpsburg, the Twenty sixth at
Gettysburg and the Twenty seventh at
Brstoe Station. At Williamsburg the
Fifth lost in killed wounded and missing
1877 out of $40. At Seven Pines the Fourth
went into battle with twenty-five Off
GERS and $40 non commissioned officers and
privates and lost in killed and wounded
every officer except one and 4G2 men. At
Sharpsburg the Third lost in an hour and
a half $50 out of 500. AT Bristoe the
Twenty seventh lost in less than half an
hour 291 out Of 426. At Sharpsburg Com
pany C. of the Fourteenth North Caro-
lima regiment lost in killed and wounded
every man of the fOrty-fVe present and