The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-12

ground, was pushed abou. forty yards
io the trent in order to be of more as
SiStauce to the infantry. Next TO Cush-
jng's came Battery Is, First Rhode Is
land light artillery. commanded b.
Lieut.. T. Fred Brown, abou. fifty
yards intervals, within which stood
the famous clump Of trees. which
made at that time, as they do row, Il
beautiful picture. Two Battery E guns
were pushed to the front on line with
Cushing's Next on the left Of Browns
battery came Rorty's New York bat
terry. On our right. nearly u quarter
Of u mile in what was called Zeigler's
Grove, Woodruff's u. S. battery was
stationed: making five batteries be-
longing TO the Second corps IN line
on Cemetery Ridge. I have always
maintained that they came farther on
to the Union ground than any of
Picket's division, and there met with
great loss III killed. wounded and cap
tured. | hope this article will correct
some of the errors which have. unWit~
tingly, perhaps, been made by guides
who now. day after day, lecture before
numerous visitors to that historic
ground. The government has placed
4ts high water mark Incorrectly. The
Twenty-sixth. and l am quite sure the
Twenty-fourth North Carolina men
came from twenty TO thirty yards
IdTIUeI IMAM Tie Se-CdlIPu SU "6Iti
mark. ! have nc other reason to give
the credit 20 North Carolina than to
DO simple justice to such brave men
Us they proved themselves on that oc-
Casion. The great mistake of every
enc who has written Of Ficketts fam
Gus charge seems to be that they think
that the troops Who came over the
low wall, that part called the Bloody
Angle" were the ones who went the
g.. 1i,,.4r .f,il 10
Just to The left of the middle of
stone wall, WAS a beautiful field reach
ing back along the wall and running
east and west To the wall running
north and south, whore Arnold's Bat
terry A. First Y. L.. was located. and
Snyth's brigade. On the right, consist
ing Of tho Fourteenth Connecticut.
First II. T., Delaware, Twelfth \. J.
ard Thrty-ninth y. V. with the Elev
snth and One Hundred and Twenty
fifth y. Y. In support. aud a few of
andrews Sharpshooters along the wall
between our guns This was an indie
pendent company attached to the Eff
tenth Massachusetts
It has also been claimed that the
point where Pickctt's men crossed the
wall was tho scene of the hardest
fighting. To prove that this is incor-
rect we will take the Second Corps
report of casualties. which shows that
Halls Brigade, on the left of Wcbb's. |
" here tho line was broken. was the
heaviest loser, and that OF Webb s |
third. and not "a very close third. |
either The Confederate reports of
that charge state that the TueGty |
sixth North Carolina lost SIS per cent. |
showing that they were in as hot IL
spot as any; D little more SO, as that
Is the next largest percentage TO the
First Minnesota which. on the second
day charged Wllcox's Brigade. captur- ..
ing it's colors. and losing 81 per cent
os it's members This is said to have
been the largest ever lost iii modern
warfare.
These facts prove conclusively that
Pettigrew's troops, which. as | under
stand it. were mostly North CAROLYN |
ials, did about rs much execution "a
any. while Perty's Brigade which had
no claim put in for 1t, seems to have
inflicted the heaviest loss upon one
OF the finest brigades that ever march |
ell upon field Of battle While Pickett.
falling upon the weakest spot In the
Second Corps, a. corner of the low wall
where the line stopped and turned