312 NortH Caroiina Troops, 1861-65.

lines north of Hatcher’s Run. The casualties of the regi-
ment were small. On 24 March the regiment, with its brig-
ade was moved to the left and put into position to support
General Gordon’s attack the next morning, on the forts and
line of the enemy east of Petersburg. When the attacking
forces moved over the intrenchments for the charge, we moved
into their places, but as the attack was a failure we were not
put in action; when we returned to our former position
we found that the enemy had just attacked and captured the
men we had left in the rifle pits in the morning. They made
a movement as if they were going to charge our main line,
but after a few shots from us they changed their purpose.

LINES BROKEN.

When the general attack was made upon the right of our
line on 31 March, we occupied a position a few hundred yards
north of Hatcher’s Run. In the battle that day, the writer
of this sketch was seriously wounded. The regiment was en-
gaged with its brigade in the stubborn resistance that was
made and continued until the morning of 2 April to prevent
the enemy from turning our flank. The lines around Peters-
burg being broken that day, the glorious remnant of the un-
conquered Fifty-fifth North Carolina Regiment shared in the
vicissitudes of the heroic and historic retreat which ended in
the surrender at Appomattox. The handful of the regiment
on 9 April, 1865, was commanded by Captain W. A. Whit-
ted.

C. M. Cooxe.

Lourssure, N. C.,
9 April, 1901.