The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-05

| ed by every North Carolinian. " ret
| tigrew he writes:
"In this division there were hVe
regiments from North Carollit, anu
the loss they met with in killed. ana
wounded during the two aSys my
fought was not almost put ehtii cry
/ unprecedented, and so little was tllelI
morale impaired by this trying orufai
! that when their wing of the army re-
! crossed the river they were among
| the troops selected for the post Oh
| honor-the rear guard"
| Read Bond and learn how little
Pickett's Division did in the great war.
| Pettigrew's five North Carolina regl-
ments sustained a loss in the thlrd
days fight of 229 killed. Pickett mad
! fifteen regiments and their total Killed
was 224. This was for the thlrd day.
In the battle for the three DAYS, the
five North Carolina regiments had 696
( killed; Virginia but 375. And yet Vlr-
ginians defame Pettigrew and glorlfy
Pickett, who had himself no stomach
for the fight" as General Lee, colonel
Charles Venable and others well knew
Colonel Fox, j. Feral, at Albany, ~ Y,
in his work on regimental losses, gives
a list of 27 Confederate regiments
which had most men killed and
/ wounded in the great battle OF Gettys-
| burg. Were they all Virginlans? Not
by q very long shot. Only TWO Vlr-
ginia regiments are in the list of 81.
How about scored, derided, slandered
North Carolina, whose soldiers are
made of common earth while V1r-
ginians are formed of royal stuff, out
of which immortals grow? Well
North Carolina had thirteen Q3) of
! the 81. and Mississippi four: And as
| Captain Bond states-three of the
| Mississippi regiments and five of the
| North Carolina regiments met with
! their loss under Pettigrew." Tell it
not in Virginia, preach it not in Rich
! mond. Pettigrew's Brigade in killed
and wounded had 1,105-eleven hun
I dred and five. And yet Pettigrew's
men, the liars say, were all raw
! troops, were only induced to make the
charge by being told they had militia
+ to fight Capt. Young, of Columbia,
/ S. c., staff officer of Heth's Division
wrote this: mo troops could have
fought better than did Pettigrew's
brigade on this day, and | will testify
on the experience of many hard fought
battles, that l never saw any fight SO
we'll
Capt Bond writes of Davls's splen-
| did brigade. | quote:
"Daviss brigade consisted of the
! Fifty-Fifth North Carolina, the Sec
ond, Eleventh and Forty-Second Mis-
sissippi. The Eleventh was on de-
/ tached service that day. The three
I which fought also faced splendid
/ troops. Here too, was a square
stand-up fight i'm the open. During
! the battle these three had. besides the
! usual proportion of wounded. one
hundred and forty-eight killed. Only
two dead men were lacking to these
three regiments to make their loss
equal to that of fifteen regiments of
Pickett's magnificent Virginians.''
! OF the statements of Virgnians as
to who entered the works, and also of
others, Capt. Bond writes this:
"Pickett's left and Pettigrew's and
Trimbles right entered the works
Men from six brigades were there.
Which command had most represent
tatives there is a disputed point. As
to the superior organization of Pick
the nature of things not a brigade on
the field was in a condition to repel
the feeblest counter attack.
Some of the troops composing
Heth's Division, commanded by Petit
grew on the third day, practically lost
b so per cent .Pickett's men lost bSt %
per cent. According to Col. w. E.
Potter, who commanded the Twelfth
New Jersey. of Smiths Brigade.
there were more dead North Caro-
linians and Missippians in front
OF Smyths Brigade than there were
dead in front of Webb. / cite from
Fond, he quoting from Col. Potter:
Il rode over the field covered by the
fire of these two brigades on the
morning of Sunday. July 5th, in COM
pany with Lieutenant Colonel Chas
Fl. Morgan, the chief of staff of Gen
eral Hancock, and Captain Hazard
AS we were passing the front of
Smyth's brigade. Colonel Morgan said
to Hazard: They may talk as they
please about the hard fighting in
front of Gibbon, but there are more
dead men here than anywhere in our
'front.' To this conclusion Hazard as
sented.''
l have quoted so deliberately | must
close, but in another article / must
quote some Northern opinions, anG
give also what Wade Hampton, Cen
eral a. p. HILL Col. Lone and others
said of North Carolina soldiers. My
advice to every fairly intelligent
North Carolinian is to procure a copy
Of Capt. w. r. Bonds most valuable
Historical Monograph" Write to
him at Scotland Neck Halifax county,
price 80 cents or five copies for $125
1t is worth its weight in gold 1t is
pure stuff.
The best specimen of magazine
or review of Southern production L
remember to have seen in thirty
years is "The Sewanee Review" for
April, the scholarly and able quarter
: ~ issued by the Episcopal University
OF the South at Sewanee, Tenn. / am
not certain that / have seen SO enjoy
able and excellent a number of any
I Northern magazine or review in thirty
years, although a constant reader in
Guiding the Boston atlantic Month
~ The North American Review"
the New York Forum" or any of
the more costly and pretentious illus
trated monthlies in New York. / read
the entire number with unbroken
pleasure, only emitting the paper on
The American Primary" the title re-
pelling me as | feared it was in ad-
vocacy of the latter day Rooseveltian
craze for expansion" violence and
plunderings sThree of the seven pa
pers are by Northern writer's. / read
with special satisfaction and interest
two admirable papers by two of the
gifted professors at the University of