480 Norts Carotina Troops, 1861-65.

of 12 May at Spottsylvania Court House when Johnson’s
front was broken, and “Lane’s North Carolina veterans
turned the tide of Federal victory as it came surging to the
right.” It was also with the brigade the afternoon of the
same day, when, under General Lee’s orders and in his pres-
ence, it crossed the works in front of Spottsylvania Court
House, and in that brilliant flank movement handled Burn-
side’s corps so roughly and relieved Johnson’s front. Its
losses in these two engagements was 5 officers and 121 men.

On the afternoon of the 21st it moved to the right of the
Court House and made a reconnoisance, in which Lieutenant
E. S. Edwards was killed and two men wounded.

At Jericho ford on 23 May, the Twenty-eighth advanced as
far as any of the troops engaged, held its ground until re-
lieved that night and removed-all its dead and wounded. Its
loss was 2 officers and 28 men.

On 31 May, at Storr’s farm on Totopotamoi Creek, near
Pole Green Church, it was engaged all day in heavy skir-
mishing and was under a terrible artillery fire.

At the Second Cold Harbor it behaved as gallantly as it
did at the first. It also behaved with its accustomed brav-
ery at Riddle’s Shop, 13 June; action three miles southeast
of Petersburg, 22 June; action in front of Petersburg, 23
June; Gravel Hill, 28 July; Fussell’s Mills, 16 and.48 Au-
gust, and Reams Station 25 August. In the last named bat-
tle it had to crawl through an almost impenetrable ahats un-
der a heavy fire of musketry and artiliery. Captain Hol-
land, of Company H, was among the first to mount the works,
and seeing that they were still manned and but a few of his
own men were up, he yelled out, “Yanks, if you know what
is best for you, you had better make a blue streak toward sun-
set.” They made the streak and the men often laughed and
said Grant would have to send Hancock back North to re-
eruit his command. General Lee, in speaking of this fight
to General Lane, said that the three North Carolina brigades,
Cooke’s, MacRae’s and Lane’s, which made the second as-
sault, after the failure of the first by other troops, had, by
their gallantry not only placed North Carolina, but the whole
Confederacy under a debt of gratitude which could never