800 NortH Carorina Troops; 1861-’65.

Benner barn and the Bronze Book which marks the high-
water mark of the struggle for Southern independence. The
measurements for the map were made by the late Colonel
Batchelder, of the United States Commission, and by Colonel
E. W. Cope, United States engineer, for this field. This
map shows that those killed farthest to the front belonged to
the Fifty-fifth North Carolina Regiment.

The forces engaged in this last charge which settled, not

only the result of the battle of Gettysburg, but the fate of the
Confederacy, were as follows:

Longstreet’s Corps, composed of :

1. Pickett’s Dwision—Kemper’s Brigade, First, Third,
Seventh, Eleventh and Twenty-fourth Virginia Regiments;
Garnett’s Brigade, Eighth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-
eighth and Fifty-sixth Virginia Regiments, supported by
Armistead’s Brigade, Ninth, Fourteenth, Thirty-eighth,
Fifty-third and Fifty-seventh Virginia Regiments in the sec-
ond line.

2. Heth’s Division, commanded by Brigadier-General Pet-
tigrew ; Archer’s Brigade, commanded by Colonel Fry, Thir-
teenth Alabama Regiment, Fifth Alabama Battalion, and
the First, Seventh and Fourteenth Tennessee Regiments;
Pettigrew’s Brigade, commanded by Colonel Marshall, Eley-
enth, Twenty-sixth, Forty-seventh and Fifty-second North
Carolina Regiments; Davis’ Brigade, Second, Eleventh and
Forty-second Mississippi Regiments and the Fifty-fifth
North Carolina Regiment; Brockenborough’s Brigade, For-
tieth, Forty-seventh and F ifty-fifth Virginia Regiments, and
Twenty-second Virginia Battalion.

3. One-half of General Pender’s Dwwision, to-wit.: Scales’
Brigade, commanded by Colonel Lowrance, Thirteenth, Six-
teenth, Twenty-second, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth
North Carolina Regiments, and Lane’s Brigade, Seventh,

Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-third and Thirty-seventh
North Carolina Regiments.

So there were eighteen regiments and one battalion from
Virginia, fifteen regiments from North Carolina, three reg-
iments from Mississippi, three regiments from Tennessee,