40 NortH Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

misunderstood the order and had marched up the lane. Colo-
nel Daniel replied, with a smile on his face: “Yes, Captain,
I saw the companies march up the lane at a very rapid gait,
and, if I am not mistaken, their two Captains were making
good time, and in front,” which created a laugh all through
the regiment, the two Captains joining in thefun. By a mis-
take of some one, our division that evening was not permitted
to engage in the battle of Frazier’s Farm, although it reached
a point immediately upon the enemy’s flank in time to have
done effective service. The next day the sanguinary conflict
of Malvern Hill raged until after dark, with our division
again on the enemy’s flank and under the enemy’s fire with-
out taking any active part in that engagement, except to
endure the shelling from the enemy’s guns. It was not
the fault of “the men behind the guns.” Daniel’s Brigade,
after the battle of Malvern Hill, returned to its camp near
Petersburg. It remained near Petersburg until the army
started on its march to Maryland. We were ordered to
Richmond and remained in the city one day, awaiting trans-
portation to Culpepper. The enemy made a demonstration
on Drewry’s Bluff and we were hurried back to that point. We
went into camp immediately in the rear of Fort Darling,
where we remained until ordered to North Carolina in the
late fall of 1862. The brigade went to Kinston; was en-
gaged through the spring of 1862 in marching and counter-
marching in the country between Kinston and New Bern and
around Washington on the Tar river, under General D. H.
Hill; some little fighting, but none worth describing here.
We returned to Kinston in time to have reached Fredericks-
burg before the battle of Chancellorsville, but were delayed
for want of transportation facilities, and arrived at Freder-
icksburg just after the battle had closed and were immedi-
ately attached to General Rodes’ Division of Ewell’s Corps.

Early in June the army broke up camp and started on
the memorable Gettysburg campaign. The first excitement
oceurred over the great cavalry battle of Brandy Station.
The brigade double-quicked from Culpepper Court House
most of the way to Brandy Station one hot evening, going
to the relief of General Stuart, but arrived on the field only

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in time to receive a few parting shots from the retreating en-
emy. ‘The next morning found us on our way across the
mountains marching rapidly toward Winchester. Rodes’
Division was sent to Berryville, where it had a slight engage-
ment, and cut off the retreat of Milroy, whose entire command
fell into the hands of General Ewell as prisoners of war at
Winchester. Ewell’s Corps immediately took up its line of
march into Pennsylvania, and Rodes’ Division went as far
North as Carlisle, Pa. From this point the Brigade turned
back in the direction of Gettysburg and arrived on that field
in the afternoon of 1 July.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

I was not present with my regiment at the battle of Get-
tysburg. I was left at Front Royal, on the march to Gettys-
burg, with a severe attack of acute pneumonia, contracted
from lying on the damp ground at Brandy Station, after the
rapid march from Culpepper, before alluded to. I met the
regiment on its return between Hagerstown, Md., and Get-
tysburg, in command of a Captain. This much I know, when di
met the regiment it was but a mere skeleton of what it was
when it left me at Front Royal.

My own company lost seven men dead on the field, and
lost between twenty-five and thirty wounded, including all of
its officers save one. The Gettysburg Federal Memorial Asso-
ciation in 1897 published “A History of the Gettysburg Me-
morial Association with an Account of the Battle,” from
which I quote as follows:

“Another of Rodes’ Brigades, Daniel’s North Carolina,
moved past the front of Robinson’s Division, and while the
Fifty-third Regiment of the brigade, with the Third Alaba-
ma of O’Neal’s, which had been detached from its brigade,
and the Twelfth Nortlt Carolina, of Iverson’s, attacked the
Seventy-sixth New York, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania and One
Hundred and Forty-seventh New York, of Cutler’s Brigade,
on left of Robinson, Daniel’s other regiment—the Thirty-
second, Forty-fifth, Second Battalion and the Forty-third—
moved further to the right around to the railroad cut, and
attacked the One Hundred and Forty-third and One Hun-