The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-08-10
North carolin,'s Part in The Most Bril-
liant chafge ia History.
FIGHT AT GETTYSBURG
Senator Dixon Stands Up for His
state and Senator Martin is Heard
for virginia-. What the New York
Evening Sum Says About the Ter
rifle Battle.

The New York Evening Sun recent.
" published the following editoria!
on the battle Of Gettysburg and the
part the ;Confe Ierates played in it:
The spirit OF the gathering at Bull
Run, where veterans Of the North
and the South Joined in friendly talk
of the great c ays Of half century
ego, is becoming well-1jgh universal
in the country
Occasionally a curmudgeonly Sen
ator, who has never smelt powder,
outrages the whole country by his
bitterness an6 unfairness; but such
outburts have dwindled down into
insignificance.
More and more the country Is be-
ginning to fee the plain truth OF the
fact that the valor Of both sides in
the civil war the equal heritage OF
all.
So there was general interest in
the Senate thu other day when Sena-
tor Martin OF Virginia and Senator
Dixon, of Montana, engaged in a
friendly deba upon the old contro-
versy Of the regiments engaged in
Pickett's chal ge at Gettysburg.
Perhaps tn, most brilliant charge
in all militar. history, there is abun-
dant reason why every American
should be COZ cerned in its facts. Sen
ator Dixon is a North Carolinian by
birth, and hi desire was to make 1t
plain that regiments of his native
State had tax an a prominent place in
this charge.
The histories, he observed, COM
monty SPOKE of "Pickett's Virgin
fans" It ws,s true that Pickett's di-
vision was c. imposed entirely Of Vir-
ginia troops, but Pickett commanded
only the right wing, and in the as
saulting colimn were also fifteen
regim ents OF North Carolina troops.
Such was the point contended for
by Senator Eixon. OF the terrible
losses suffer sd in that charge Sena-
tor Dixon thus spoke:
want to take no credit from any
man. The Virginians under Pickett
did more tt an mortal men could be
exl ected to do; but want it to ap-
pear, so thlt the world may know
that the m ljority Of the men who
went up Ce netery Ridge on the af-
ternoon of July 8, 1858, in the face
OF that mu,derous fire Of shot and
shell from Meade's intrenched line
of infantry and artillery were North
Carolinians and that they bore the
trunt of tt at historic assault. The
26 North Carolina regiment was par
TALLY recruited from my home coun-
ty, and in that assault and in the
first days fighting, on July 1, lost
the creates percentage in killed and
wounded CT any regiment Of either
the Fedora IS or Confederate armies.
have her on my desk a book from
the Cons1 -ssional library entitled,
"Regimental Loses in the American
Civil War which gives the loss OF
the 26, North Carolina regiment as
SS per cen: il the total casualties.
''The re siment mustered 500 men
when the i,attle began on July 1. Af-
ter the rol had been called 5S4 were
numbered among the dead, wounded
and captured. OF this remaining
216 Who responded here" at the
end of tie first days fighting and
who agai. sprang forward on that
afternoon Of July 8 at the word OF
command 130 never returned.
Just Sc of that heroic regiment OF
heroic No ,th Carolinians shouldered
their musi1ets and with heavy hearts
took up he line of retreat to the
she.:er bank c. the Potomac. The
story of The Light Brigade and its
sacrifice at Balaklava pales besides
the story Of the &c North Carolina
at Gettys )urg.'
In fact the loss at Balaklaya was
bnt Eat out If f73 engaged. The
tragic hi tory Of half century ago
is worth, of the great nation which
it made ,ecure and should stand the