120 NortH Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

tenant Oliver Williams, Company ©; Jno. Killet, Company
E; W. J. Cotten, Company F; William Simmons and A. S.
Carney, Company G; Ransom G. Hawley, Company H;
Chas. H. Hall and Sergeant B. A. Brown, Company I. 26
November in the trenches at Morton’s Ford; 27 November
moved out of camp, marched to Locust Grove, skirmished all
day. By order from General Johnston I threw out two com-
panies to protect our left, there being a gap be
tween our left and General Edward Johnson’s right.
In the Mine Run affair both sides wasted a great
deal of powder, but did very little execution. The
remainder of the Winter was spent at Taylorsville, near
Hanover Junction, guarding the railroad bridges over the
North and South Anna rivers; we had quite a pleasant time
at this camp, good country, hospitable people, charming
young ladies, all conspired to this end. 5 May we started
to the Wilderness, arriving on the 6th. Supported General
Gordon in an attack on General Grant’s right; sharply en-
gaged for a short while. Lieutenant B. Watson was killed;
General Seymour of the Sixth Army Corps, United States of
America, was captured. On the 7th marched through dust
and heat from burning woods; reached Spottsylvania Court
House a short time before sunset. About this time our bri-
gade. (Generel R. D. Johnston’s) was placed in General
Early’s Division. On the 8th and 9th unimportant moves
for position. On the 10th, about 5 o’clock, Johnston’s North
Carolina Brigade with the other brigades of the division,
charged to recapture the works taken from General
Doles by massed lines of the enemy. How we suc-
ceeded and the credit due my regiment on that oc-
casion is best shown by General Lee’s letter to the Secretary
of War, a copy of which was sent to my regiment afterwards,
and which is as follows: :

HeapQuaRrTERSs,
Army Norruern VIRGINIA,
May 16, 1864.
Str :—Yesterday evening the enemy penetrated a part of
our line and planted his colors upon the temporary breast-

 

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