178 Norra Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

as stating that he “captured the flag of the Twenty-second or
Twenty-eighth North Carolina Regiment at Bristoe Station,
14 October, 1863, while advancing under fire.” His state-
ment as to the Twenty-eighth North Carolina is as untrue as
that as to the Twenty-second. The Twenty-eighth Regiment
was of General James H. Lane’s Brigade, of Wilcox’s Divis-
ion, and was not in the engagement at Bristoe. The brigades
most actively engaged in that disastrous fight were Cooke’s
and MacRae’s, of Heth’s Division, A. P. Hill’s Corps.

It is significant that the report of these flag captures, of
which there purport to be many, (Vol. 125, p. 814-817,
“Official Records Union and Confederate Armies,” ) adds,
after recounting Corporal Cullen’s doughty exploit, that he is
“now a prisoner of war.”

Quere.—As there were no exchanges of prisoners at the
time, is it not probable that it was Cullen, and not the flag,
that was captured at Bristoe? Something seems to have con-
fused his memory.

At the surrender at Appomattox 9 April, 1865, the brigade
was under command of Colonel Joseph H. Hyman,
of the Thirteenth Regiment, (of Edgecombe county),
and numbered, all told, 720 men, of whom 92 were
officers, of the different grades, and 628 were enlisted
men. Of the Twenty-second Regiment there were paroled
97 men and the following officers: Colonel, Thomas S. Gal-
loway, Jr.; Lieutenant-Colonel, W. L. Mitchell; Captains,
George H. Gardin, Company B; Robert W. Cole, Company
E; Gaston V. Lamb, Company I; E. J. Dobson, Company K;
Yancey M. ©. Johnson, Company I; Columbus F. Siler,
Company M. Lieutenants: Wm. A. Tuttle, Company A;
Samuel P. Tate, Company B; Andrew J. Busick, Company
E; W. ©. Orrell, Company E; Calvin H. Wilborne, Com-
pany L. In Company F but eight privates “present for
duty,” were left, and in Company H but five. Besides those
mentioned several members of the regiment, who were on de-
tached service, were paroled elsewhere.

And so the regiment was disbanded and its few surviving
members sought their distant homes, with heavy hearts, in-

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deed, at the failure of the cause they had upheld so long and
so bravely, undeterred by privation and unappalled by dan-
gers, but still sustained by the parting words of their illus-
trious chief, and the consciousness of right, and of duty well
done. No nobler band of men ever offered their all at the be-
hest of the sovereign State to which they owed allegiance, and
to the little squad of them, now “in the sere, the yellow leaf,”
who have not vet “crossed over the river and rest under the
shade of the trees,” an old comrade sends warmest greeting
and best wishes. Would that his feeble efforts in attemp:-
ing to preserve some portion, at least, of their record were
more worthy of their matchless deeds. Few of them, if any,
there were who, when all was over, might not have said in
the words of St. Paul: “I have fought a good fight. * *
I have kept the faith.”

And to those of the regiment—that larger regiment by
far—who sleep their last sleep where at duty’s call they laid
down their lives, on the plains and hillsides of Virginia and
Maryland, from the Appomattox to the Antietam, is gladly
rendered the fullest meed of grateful praise. Their fidelity
and devoted sacrifice shall be celebrated in song and story, and
shall be borne in loving memory while time shall last.

* & %-"Tament them nott

No love can make immortal

That span which we call life;

And never heroes passed to heaven’s portal
- From fields of grander strife.”

In offering this imperfect history of the Twenty-second
Regiment of North Carolina Troops in the late war between
the States, the writer will say, in explanation of its many
omissions and shortcomings, that during more than the last
two years of its service, he had been transferred to other duty
and was not a member of the regiment. He gratefully ac-
knowledges his indebtedness to Lieutenant J. R. Cole, some
time its Adjutant, for much valuable information. He