358 Nortu Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

Heth being wounded, Pettigrew commanded the division
(Pettigrew had the bones of his left hand crushed by a grape
shot, but remained on the field with his hand in splints), and
Major Jones our brigade. (Jones was also slightly wounded,
but refused to leave the field). Eleven men were shot down
the first day with the colors (afterwards ascertained to be
fourteen). Yesterday they were lost. Poor Colonel Bur-
gwyn was shot through both lungs and died shortly after-
ward. His loss is great, for he had few equals of his age.
Captain W. W. McCreery, Inspector on General Pettigrew’s
staff, was shot through the heart and instantly killed. As-
sistant Adjutant-General N. Collins Hughes mortally
wounded. Lieutenant Walter M. Robertson, Brigade Ord-
nance Officer, severely wounded; with them, Lieutenant-Col-
onel Lane through the neck, jaw and mouth, I fear mortally;
Adjutant James B. Jordan in the hip, severely; Captain J.
T. Adams, shoulder, seriously ; Stokes McRae, thigh broken ;
Captain William Wilson, killed; Lieutenants W. W. Rich-
ardson and J. B. Holloway have died of their wounds. It is
thought Lieutenant M. McLeod and Captain N. G. Bradford
will die; Captain J. A. Jarrett, wounded in face and hand.
Yesterday Captain S. P. Wagg was shot through by grape,
and instantly killed. Alex. Saunders was wounded and J.
R. Emerson left on the field dead. Captain H. C. Albright is
the only Captain left in the regiment. Lieutenants J. A.
Lowe, M. B. Blair, T. J. Cureton (this officer was wounded
in shoulder), and C. M. Sudderth are the only officers not
wounded. Major Jones was struck by a fragment of a shell
on the 1st and knocked down and stunned on the 3rd, but re-
fused to leave the field.

“Our whole division numbers only 1,500 or 1,600 effective
men as officially reported, but, of course, a good many will
still come in. The division at, the beginning numbered about
8,000 effective men. Yesterday in falling back we had to
leave the wounded, hence the uncertainty of a good many
being killed yesterday evening.”

Going into particulars of losses: Company F, from Cald-
well County, commanded by Captain R. M. Tuttle (now a
Presbyterian minister at Collierstown, Va.), went into the

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battle with three officers and 88 muskets. Thirty-one were
killed or died of wounds received in the battle. Sixty were
wounded, fifty-nine of whom were disabled for duty. Ser-
geant Robert Hudspeth was the only man able to report for
duty after the fight, and he had been knocked down and
stunned by the explosion of a shell. In this company were
three sets of twin brothers, at the close of the battle, five of
the six lay dead on the field.

Companies I and F of this regiment were from Caldwell
County. The men composing these companies had been
reared along the slopes of the Great Grandfather Mountain.
They had been accustomed from boyhood to hunt deer, the
bear, and the wolf in the lonely forests surrounding their
homes. They were enured to hardship, self-reliant, indefat-
igable and insensible to danger. Company F was on the left
of the colors, and Company E on the right. This latter ecom-
pany (Company E) suffered nearly as badly as Company F.
It carried 82 officers and men into the fight, and brought out
only two untouched.

Going into the particulars of the loss of Company E, 18
men were killed or mortally wounded, and 52 wounded on
the first day, and on the third day only two escaped. Every
officer in the company was wounded.

Company G lost 12 men killed and 58 wounded and miss-
ing, but the losses on each day are not given by Captain Al-
bright. :

Company H had 17 killed and 55 wounded in the two days
battles.

The men composing these three companies were from the
historic counties of Chatham and Moore. Their ancestors
had fought at Alamance and Moore’s Bridge and Guilford
Court House, and from their youth up they had handled the
rifle in hunting the deer and wild turkey, and as General
Pettigrew said of them, “they shot as if they were shooting at
squirrels.”

Company. A, from Ashe County, the same class of moun-
taineers of whom we have spoken above in referring to Com-
panies F and I, took into action 92, rank and file. Eleven
were killed and 66 wounded in the first day’s fight, and on the