172 Norto Caronina Troops, 1861-’65.

Company E—Captain, Robert W. Cole, 15 September,
1863; First Lieutenant, Andrew J. Busick, 15 September,
1863; Second Lieutenant, Oliver C. Wheeler, 25 April, 1863.

Company F—Captain ; First Lieutenant, David
Edwards, 20 October, 1862 ; Second Lieutenant, Shadrach G.
Caudle, 25 April, 1863.

Company G—Captain, George A. Graves, 1 May, 1862;
First Lieutenant, Peter Smith, 10 May, 1862; Second Lieu-
tenant, Robert L. Mitchell, 1 May, 1862; Second Lieuten-
ant, Martin H. Cobb, 25 April, 1863.

Company H—Captain, Thomas T. Slade, 23 October,
1863; First Lieutenant, John K. Martin, 25 May, 1863; Sec-
ond Lieutenant, Mason T. Mitchell, 25 April, 1863; Second
Lieutenant, C. L. Graves, 25 May, 1863.

Company I—Captain, Gaston V. Lamb, 18 July, 1862;
First Lieutenant, Burwell W. Burkhead, 1 July, 1863; Sec-
ond Lieutenant, Richard W. Winburne, 1 August, 1863 ; Sec-
ond Lieutenant, Robert A. Glenn, 1 August, 1863.

Company K—Captain, W. B. Gooding, 13 November,
1862; First Lieutenant, ; ; Second Lieuten-
ant, E. J. Dobson, 5 November, 1862.

Company L—Captain, Lee Russell, , ———; First
Lieutenants, Yancey M. C. Johnson, 1 August, 1863 ; Second
Lieutenant, Oliver M. Pike, 15 July, 1863; Second Lieuten-
ant, Calvin H. Winborne, 1 August, 1863.

Company M—Captain, Columbus F. Siler, 2 May, 1863;
First Lieutenant, James M. Robbins, 2 May, 1863; Second
Lieutenant, John M. Lawrence, 25 April, 1863.

Under this organization the regiment shared in the events
of the “campaign of strategy” in October and November,
1863, on the Rapidan, and endured the cold and other priva-
tions in the affair at Mine Run, 2 December. Going into
winter quarters after that, there were no occurrences of
much note until the opening of the great campaign
in the Spring of 1864. Major-General Cadmus M.
Wilcox had been assigned to the command of the division,
General Pender having died of the wound received at Gettys-
burg, and this division with that of Heth, at the Wilderness

 

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5 May, withstood and repulsed with heavy loss every

- attack of Grant’s forces on that memorable day. So severe

had been the struggle that at night when General Heth asked
permission to readjust his lines, much disordered by the per-
sistent fighting, General A. P. Hill simply replied: ‘‘Let the
tired men sieep,” a decision which, with the delay of Lon-
street’s corps the next morning in getting into position, had
nearly caused disaster. The Twenty-second bore well its part
here, and so on, always maintaining its high reputation, at
Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and through the
weary winter of hardship and want of 1864-65, borne with
fortitude, in the trenches at Petersburg; on the trying retreat
at Appomattox in April, 1865, where the sad end came.

COLD HARBOR—PETERSBURG.

After Grant’s disastrous attack upon Lee at Cold Harbor in
June,1864, he withdrew from Lee’s front and began the move-
ment which transferred his operations to the vicinity of Pe-
tersburg. To conceal this movement Warren’s Corps was sent
up the roads towards Richmond to make demonstrations, and
to meet Warren, Wilcox’s Division, in which were Scales’ Bri-
gade and the Twenty-second Regiment, was sent. After a
hard march Gary’s Brigade of cavalry was found falling
back before a heavy force and Lane’s and Scales’ Brigades of
infantry were at once ordered forward. These drove back
Wilson’s cavalry division for one and a half miles, and
secured and held a cross-roads near a place called Smith’s
Shop, in the vicinity of the Frazier’s Farm battlefield. In
this fight and advance (of more than an hour) the centre of
the Twenty-second Regiment passed at one time over an open
knoll, which had been cleared for artillery two years before,
where they received the full fire of Wilson’s men and lost
heavily, but still pressed on, driving the enemy before them,
and held the position as mentioned above.

REAMS STATION.

In his account of this action in August, 1864, Swinton
errs in saying that three charges were made by the Confed-