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RICKETTS, northern advance. IL -
Claimed that Is. EsoIns whgea Pick
eits soldiers reached across this
stone waIl wAs the furthesg po.uf
that any Confederate soldier at
tanned.
soldier who was In tbs battle
told me that after the battle a nun
Der Of PettlgreS' North Carolina
soldiers were found lying around =
small house that is still preserved
which house Ii nearer the Federal
main line than the spot marked as
the limit Of Pickett's charge. North
Carolina should mark that kpo, with
out further delay
Just after had examined the
stone that marks the spot where
General Armsted fell. q few yards ln-
side OF the stone wall Of the Bloody
Angle. Confederate soldier. stand
Ing on the other side Of the stone
wall Of that Bloody Angle. not more
than twenty yards away. called out:
"Forty-eight years ago you would not
let me cross this wall. You shot me
down here. Can | come over now?''
! yelled back: Il am a Confederate
Come over and be welcome" This
old SCARED Confederate veteran, over
seventy years Of age. mounted the
wall and said: Il am Kidwell. OF
F'auquier County, Virginia" And
| told him that | was from North
Carolina, and as We shook hands, he
said: AS | spoke to you, | was
standing on the spot where | fell
forty-eight years ago tomorrow, as
one of Pickett's soldiers when that
awful charge was made" He went
on to tell me that when he fell
though badly wounded, he turned
and looked and saw the remnants OF
that magnificent Virginia brigade
and that only a handful of then
crossed the wall, while the field be
hind was strewn with thousands Of
bodies so thick that it looked as i
a person could walk on dead bodie.
from one end of the field to the
other.
The North Carolina troops-Petti
crews, Lanes and Scales brigade
which with the brigades of Archer
Davis and Brockenborough constitut
ed the left of the assaulting column
shaEed equally with Pickett's mel
, the glories Of that day. And, besides
/ while Pickett's division were fresh
, the brigades of Scales, Lane and Pet
. tigrew had been engaged in the ter
, rible battle of the first day. On tina
, day, in McPherson's Grove, Petit
: crews brigade had met in deadl.
, combat THE Iron Brigade"
/ dith's. There the Twenty-sixth n. c
Regiment suffered the largest loss il
: killed and wounded ever sustained
by Confederate regiment; and Their
the young and gallant Harry Bur
!, gwyn was killed.
Later, l stood on Cemetery Ridge
= where General Hokes brigade, LEI
= by Colonel Isaac Avery, charged tn
2 Ridge and captured the Federal bat
: terry. General Hoke had been severel,
! wounded six months before at Chan
: cellorsville (Salem church, and Col
, Avery was in charge of his brigade
= Col. Avery was getting ready TO turl
! the guns which they had captures
upon the Federal soldiers when agail
General Meade, from his command
! ing position and from his compac
organization, ordered fresh troop
rushed to the rescue. There were n