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ADDITIONAL SKETCH FOKTY-SEVENTH
KEGIMENT.

By J. ROWAN ROGERS, Seconp LizuTenant Company I.

GETTYSBURG.

I have accepted the task of writing this additional sketch
of the Forty-seventh North Carolina Regiment with alacrity,
because I love so well its memory, and its many heroes of
whom so many have passed over the river, though a few yet
linger on this side.

At Gettysburg the Forty-seventh Regiment had the honor
of being in the advance of all the troops and nearest to Get-
tysburg on 30 June, 1863. We had our pickets out on that
night and next morning when the line of march was taken,
Pettigrew’s Brigade, composed of the Forty-seventh, Fifty-
second, Twenty-sixthand Eleventh, wasin front (Forty-fourth
Regiment was on detached duty near Richmond). The Forty-
seventh Regiment was in front of the brigade. After march-
ing some distance from our camp on the morning of 1 July,
the Forty-seventh Regiment was fired into from both sides
of the road and a halt was immediately called, when the en-
emy was discovered to be advancing from both our right and
left flank (being dismounted cavalry), from a body of woods
which was away from the road on each side about 500 yards.
Notwithstanding this was a great surprise to all of our regi-
ment, you could plainly see pleasure depicted upon the face
of every officer and man in the regiment, for we all were anx-
ious for the fray. Every one waited anxiously for orders,
which were given by our Colonel, G. H. Faribault, who or-
dered Captain Cameron Iredell, of Company C, to take five
men from each company, making fifty, and charge the enemy
on our right and ordered Lieutenant Westray, of Company
A, to take five from each company and charge them on our
left. All this was done quicker than I can write it. Colonel