168 Norta CaroLina Troops, 186]-’65.

Soon after Seven Pines the regiment was re-organized,
when the following were elected Field Officers: James Con-
nor, of South Carolina, Colonel; Captain Robert H. Gray,
of Company L, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Captain Columbus
C. Cole, of Company E, Major. They took rank from 14
June, 1862. There were many changes also in the line officers,
Previously Adjutant Graham Daves had been promoted Cap-
tain and assigned to duty as Assistant Adjutant-General on
the general staff, and Lieutenant P. E. Charles became Adju-
tant. A new brigade, too, was formed, consisting of the Six-
teenth, Twenty-second, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth
North Carolina Regiments, and placed under the command
of Brigadier-General Wm. D. Pender, in the division of
General A. P. Hill.

An officer in describing the bearing of the Twenty-second
at Seven Pines says: ‘In all my readings of veterans, and
of coolness under fire, I have never conceived of anything
surpassing the coolness of our men in this fight.”

In the “Seven Days’ Fight” around Richmond the regi-
ment was next engaged: First, at Mechanicsville, 26 June,
in which Colonel Connor was badly wounded; at Ellison’s
Mill; at Gaines’ Mill, 27 June, where it won the highest
encomiums. General A. P. Hill says of it in his report of
the battle: “The Sixteenth North Carolina, Colonel McEI-
roy, and the Twenty-second, Lieutenant-Colonel Gray, at
one time carried the crest of the hill, and were in the enemy’s
camp, but were driven back by overwhelming numbers.”
And General Pender: “My men fought nobly and main-
tained their ground with great stubbornness.” Next at Fra-
zier’s Farm, 30 June. In this fight the regiment was very
conspicuous and suffered severely. Among the killed were
Captain Harper and Lieutenant P. E. Charles, of Company
E. The latter was bearing the regimental colors at the time,
and near him, in a space little more than ten feet square, nine
men of the color guard lay dead. Captain Ephraim Boul-
din, of Company H, was also killed.

On 9 August, the battle of Cedar Mountain was fought.
In this engagement the Twenty-second Regiment was charged
by a regiment of cavalry which it easily repulsed and pun-

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ished sharply. Lieutenant Robert W. Cole, of Company E,
succeeded Lieutenant Charles, as Adjutant. The regiment
was with Jackson in his battles with Pope of 28 and 29 Au-
gust, and bore an active part at Second Manassas on 30 Au-
gust. In these actions it was efficiently commanded by Major
C. C. Cole, owing to the extreme sickness of Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Gray. Two days later it was again engaged with the enemy
at Chantilly, orOx Hill, fought in a terrible thunder storm, in
which the artillery of heaven and of earth seemed to strive
in rivalry. The hard service and heavy losses of this cam-
paign may be understood by the fact that at this time there
were, out of the twelve field officers of the four regiments of
the brigade, but three left on duty with their commands, and
some of the companies were commanded by corporals.

Pope, the braggart, had made good use of his ‘‘Headquar-
ters in the saddle” to get out of Virginia, and had learned all
about “Lines of Retreat.”

The Twenty-second. Regiment took part in the reduction
and capture of Harper’s Ferry 15 August, where it re-
mained until the 17th, the day the battle of Sharpsburg was
fought. On that day the regiment, with the rest of A. P.
Hill’s division, arrived on the battlefield after a forced
march of seventeen miles, in time to aid, in the afternoon, in
the decided repulse of Burnside’s attack at the “Stone
Bridge,” thereby preventing the turning of General Lee’s
right and saving the day to the Confederates. On the night
of the 18th, the army re-crossed the Potomac and on the 19th
was followed by a division of Federals, which was promptly
attacked by part of A. P. Hill’s command, routed and driven
back across the Potomac at Shepherdstown with great slaugh-
ter. The Twenty-second took an active part in this success-
ful fight. After the enemy had been driven into the river, a
heavy fire was opened on the Confederates by the Federal bat-
teries and sharp shooters from its north bank. Under this
fire a detachment of the Twenty-second under Major Cole
lay, with very slight protection, for nearly twelve hours, and
could be withdrawn only after nightfall.

Shortly after Shepherdstown, Lieutenant-Colonel Gray re-
joined the regiment, and Lieutenant J. R. Cole, previously