500 NortH Carottna Troops, 1861-’65.

Lieutenant Philips undertook this perilous duty, receiv-
ing several shots through his clothing, came in hailing dis-
tance of Colonel Tew and reported to that officer. And to be
sure that his message was understood, asked Colonel Tew to
give him some intimation that he was heard. Colonel Tew,
who was standing erect, lifted his hat and made Philips a
polite bow, and fell immediately from a wound in the head.

While Lieutenant Philips was returning, he received a
severe wound on the head, which caused him to leave the
field, much to the loss of the command. I at once attempted
to go to the left of the brigade, and had not proceeded ten
paces, when I was struck by a minie ball on the head ond
was taken from the field. In a recent correspondence with
an officer of the Sixty-fourth New York Regiment, he says
“T remember very well what a warm reception you gave us,
when you left the Bloody Lane, and we moved in.”

I have never witnessed more deliberate nor more destruc-
tive firing. I cautioned my men to hold their fire until I
should give the command, and then to take deliberate, cool
aim ; that I would not give the command to fire until I could
see the belt of the cartridge boxes of the enemy, and to aim at
these. They obeyed my orders, gave a fine volley, which
brought down the enemy as grain falls before a reaper.

It was from a. wound received on this field, that North Car-
olina suffered a great loss in the death of General George B.
Anderson. The State gave no finer soldier to our cause.

Before the campaign of 1863 opened Stephen D. Ramseur,
Colonel of the Forty-ninth North Carolina Infantry, was
promoted to Brigadier-General, and assigned to the brigade
of the lamented Anderson.

Though the skirmishers of the Thirtieth were actively en-
gaged at Fredericksburg and the regiment itself was under
a heavy shelling, Chancellorsville was the next field upon
which the prowess of the regiment was shown. The two days
preceding the battle of 3 May, 1863, Ramseur’s Brigade was
very actively engaged in heavy skirmishing. The move
ments, where the ground would allow it, were made by regu-
lar brigade drill.

The brigade was in the famous flank movement of Jackson,

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