The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13

Whether the charge should be called
Pickett'S charge or Longstreet's makes
little difference. 1t has always been
subject Of controversy whether the
men on the right, where the Virginia
brigade was Or on the left, which po-
sition was held by the Tar Heels,
reached further n the charge. 1t is
not denied that on the second day
of the fight Hoke's brigade, with some
Louisianians from Hays brigade, Went
| further than any other troops pene~
| trated during the three days. The
highwater mark was thus established
really by Tar Heels and Pelicans in
| conjunction. But the facts relating
to the charge of the third day have
always been in controversy. The
pamphlet insists that the best test OF
| the point reached by a command ts
where it left its dead. and the Fed
eral records show that PettigreW' g
dead were left further to the front
than those Of Pickett's division, and
| that his men were captured wounded
on the yonder side of the wall. which
was several yards in advance of the
| point where Armistead fell.
The pamphlet demonstrates that the
| Thirty-ninth, Fifty-eighth and SiXtieth
! Tar Hell regiments achieved the furth-
! est advance made by COnfederates al
| Chickamauga, the point being now
marked only by a wooden board nailed
| to q telegraph pole. At AppOmatto2.
! 1t is shown that the last voliey was
! fired by CoX's North Carolina brigade.
and the last charge and last capture OF
| Federal guns and men was made by
the Seventh North Carolina cavalry
which in returning from the charge
! with the captured cannon and prison
ers met the bearers of the flag of
truce. The concluding paper of the
pamphlet is written by Captain S. A.
| Ashe, gallant soldier and eminent
| jurist and journalist. 1t recites tn =
| fact that North Carolina sent $4,000
| men TO the front, the records Of the
names of 105,000, of whom are pre-
served in the archives of the State.
Embodied in this paper is the follow
ing statement:
1.-THE valor of the Confederate
! troops from the different States was
much the same. The fortunes of the
battlefield brought heavy losses to
regiments from every State without
much discrimination. Evidently, then,
losses on the battlefield measurably
indicate the numbers engaged from
the different States. OF the Confed-
crate losses on the battlefield and
died from wounds North CGrOlina'S
proportion was more than % per cent.
| The entire Confederate loss was IA
ga, and That OF North Carolina WAS
, 1868. (FoX's Regimental Losses.)
The statement may meet with re-
ply, but it can not be successfully an
sWered. Nor can the records which
show that Of the 1888 men killed at
Gettysburg, 770 were from North Car
DINA, 435 ware Georgians. 500 Vfr-
ginians. 25S Mississippians, PIT South
Carolinians and 204 Alabamians. The
heaviest brigade losses In the great
| charge were Pettigrew's North Caro-
lina) 100 killed. Davis, (Misslssippi)
$50, and Daniels (North Carolina)
1865. Pickett's entire division had PA
| killed. In PettigreW's division, the
Twenty sixth North Carolina lost Sc
killed and SOP wounded, with 40
missing (either killed or wounded)
| the greatest percentage of loss in the
| history of the war or of any war in
| history.