TweEntTy-SixtH REGIMENT.

MAJOR GENERAL HARRY HETH’S DIVISION.

On 1 May, 1863, Pettigrew’s Brigade was ordered to Rich-
mond to be ever thereafter attached to the Army of Nothern
Virginia. Taking position first at Hanover Junction, to
protect that important point in the enemy’s attempts to cap-
ture Richmond, the brigade, leaving the Forty-fourth Regi-
ment behind at the junction, as a guard, proceeded to Fred-
ericksburg, and now attached to Heth’s Division, set out on
15 June on the memorable march to invade Pennsylvania.

Heth’s Division, as then organized, was composed of Arch-
er’s Tennessee, Davis’ Mississippi, Brockenborough’s Vir-
ginia, and Pettigrew’s North Carolina Brigades.

The division commander was a native of Virginia, a gradu-
ate of West Point, had served with distinction in the war with
Mexico, and against the Indians on the frontier, and had re-
signed fromthe United States Army to accept service under
his native State. Promoted from Colonel of the Forty-fifth
Virginia Regiment to the command of a Virginia Brigade, he
won additional promotion by his services in the Chancellors-
ville campaign (Spring of 1863), and was now at the head of
a command ever to bear his name and to serve under him until
he, with its shattered remnants, surrendered at Appomattox.
“His earnest praise of the great qualities of his North Caro-
lina soldiers was unstinted. Even to the last, there was a
peculiar tension and quiver of the mouth when he would
speak of their almost God-like heroism at Gettysburg, and
the unheard of and never equalled slaughter that checked, but

never terrified them.”

 

 

MARCH TO GETTYSBURG.

Says a member of the regiment: “What a fine appearance
the regiment made as it marched out from its bivouac near
Eredericksburg that beautiful June morning. The men

beaming in their splendid uniforms; the colors flying, and the

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TWENTY-SIXT drums beating ; everything seemed propitious of success. On

1. James T. Adams, Lieut.-Colonel. 4. Stephen W. Brewer, Captain. Co. E. : : ee?
2; Samuel P. Wagg, Captain, Co. A. 5. Jos. R. Ballew, Captain, Co. F. this march it was a real pleasure to see with what joy the peo-

3. William Wilson, Captain, Co. B. 6. R. M. Tuttle, Captain, Co. F. : 3 :
7. H.C, Albright, Captain, Co. G. ple who had hitherto been under the domination of the Fed-
erals, received us. We marched by way of Harper’s Ferry,