The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-18

mand Of Lieutenant General Long
street. This line was composed of
three divisions. one commanded by
Major General Pickett, another un-
der Major General Trimble, who
commanded a part of Pender's divi-
sion .Pender haying been Wounded),
and Heth's division was commanded
by Pettisrew tHeth having been
w~ounded.) 1t vas therefore a gross
misnomer to style it "Picketts
Charge" In Pickett's division there
were 3 brigades, commanded respec-
lively by Armistead, kemper and
Garnett, consisting of Is regiments,
all from Virginia. These were all
fresh troops, not having been engaged
at all in the two previous days fights.
Trimble commanded the two brig
AIDES of Pender's division containing
10 North Carolina Regiments, belong
ing to Scales and Lanes b~rigades.
Pettigrew commanded Heth's division
which consisted of 4 brigadeS con-
tanning II regiments from the fol-
lowing States: Fiv from North Caro-
lima. two from Alabama four from
Virginia, three from Tennessee and
three from Mississippi. There was in
Longstreet's assault therefore AZ re-
giments, Is Virginia Regiments, under
Pickett; 10 North Carolina Regiments
under Trimble; 5 North Carolina Re-
giments and 4 Virginia Regiments in
Brockenbrough's brigade, under Pet
tigrew. The other 8 regiments under
Pettigrew were as already stated 2
from Alabama, 8 from Tennessee and
3 from Mississippi.
Except the Is Virginia regiments
under Pickett, which had not been
previously engaged, all the others had
been seriously cut up in the two pre-
vious days fights.
First Brigade To Break.
Tn fha hiCtnrin ahoron tho fret
brigade to break was Brockenbrough's
Virginians on the extreme left, and
the next was Davis Mississippi brig
ade, but this was from no fault Of
theirs. for they had a raking fire
poured into them on the left flank.
In the charge Major General Trimble
and Pettigrew went orwar close up
with their lines and Pettigrew was
wounded near the stone wall. Trimble
was also with his men, as were also
all the commanders of the brigades.
The only general officer who did not
go forward with his troops was Gen
eral Pickett, who stopped before
crossing the Emmettsburg Road be-
mind the Codori Barns, full 500 yards
from the stone wall. The writer and
man other comrades visited the spot
in July last and it was apparent that
the depression in which Pickett and
staff stopped was such hat a mar or
horseback could not have seen his
men at the wall nor have been seen
by the enemy behind it.
Colonel L. G.. Young, of Savannah,
Ca, who was in the charge, says that
Pickett was mot in the assault" and
Colonel Marshall and General G. Mox-
ley Sorrell of Longstreet's staff both
bear out this statement. Colone
Charles S. Venable, of General Lees
staff. says hat he saw Pickett behind
the CndOrt RarnS while his trOODs
were charging. Colonel Thomas H
Carter, who commanded Carriers Bat
talon Of artillery that day, repeated,
made the statement. Beacham,
Federal officer, in his book "Gettys
burg" page 243, says that Pickett LEI
his men no further than the Emmetts
burg Road. The survivors of the 12tl
New Jersey who were at the stone wal
say that Pettigrew's troops wen
farthest. See also the address of Gen
eral c. ID. M~acDougall at Gettysburg
July 3, 1919. He commanded tn
111th New York in the battle. Hi
postoffice is Auburn, \. Y.
In Aldrich's History of the 1, r.
Light Artillery at PA is a map show
ing that Pettigrew went farthest, an
on page 215 he says "Pettigrew
North Carolinians came over 20 yard
farther than Pickett's Virginians.
The articles on Gettysburg in
~ = ICSiIlltiltdl IllSlO1 les pax
LOO to 159, written by Colonel l.. {
Young Of Georgia, Major w. NJ. Rot
bins and Captain s. A. Ashe, leave bl
little that can be added.
This State has issued under tt
auspices Of the North Carolina Litel
AIRY and Historical Society a pamphl
styled Five Points in the Record
North Carolina in the great War
1S61-5." Therein will be found an e,
haustive article by Judge w. A. Mon
gomery. and another by w. r. Bon
both Of them gallant soldiers WI
we're active participants in the bait
Of Gettysburg. Their discussion of tt
matter is most valuable and illustrat,
by several maps.
Tar Heels Went so Yards Further
The writer n others who atten
ed the Semi-Centennial at Gettysbu
July, 1913, met many Federal soldie
who were u opponents in the bait
Their evidence was to the effect tn
y-