574 NortH Caro.ina Troops, 1861-’65.

two to our immediate left and two on Kilpatrick. The sight
was thrilling. The men were never going to pass Stuart and
those guns. They yelled and fired and stood. That was
enough. Stuart was satisfied as to what they would do. He
dashed off with his staff down the pike towards Kilpatrick’s
coming columns and in a few moments a mighty cheer, that
only Southern soldiers could give, came louder than the guns
from our rear. Colonel Ferrebee with the Fifty-ninth North
Carolina and a part of Jones’ and Butler’s Brigades, after
desperate charges and counter-charges, had beaten Kilpatrick
back. Kilpatrick went back faster than he came, and the
whole Federal force retreated to the Robertson river and
crossed it next morning in haste after Buford wrote General
Pleasanton: “I am proud to say that Stuart was whipped
and his forces dispersed.”. Vol. 48, p. 141. Among our
killed at Jack’s Shop, from Company A, were Charles Mur-
phy, son of Mr. David Murphy, and Alexander Bethune, son
of Congressman Bethune, all of Fayetteville, N. C.

THE BRISTOE CAMPAIGN.

On 9 October, 1863, General Lee began his great move-
ment, with Ewell’s and Hill’s Corps on Meade’s right flank,
known as the Bristoe campaign. The advance was by. way of
Madison Court House on the enemy then in Culpepper.
Hampton’s Division, he being absent from Gettysburg
wounds, was under the immediate personal command of Stu-
art and acted on Ewell’s and Hill’s left flank to favor their
movement. Gordon’s Brigade, including the Sixty-third,
bivouacked near Madison Court House the night of the 9th
and crossed Robertson river at Russell’s Ford about daylight
on the 10th. The Fifty-ninth North Carolina beat off the
Federal pickets and drove them back on their supports, the
One Hundred and Twentieth New York Infantry and some
cavalry, at Bethsaida church. Gordon attacked in front. with
the Sixty-third and others, dismounted, and the First South
Carolina Cavalry assailed their right and rear. They broke
and fled in utter rout and nearly every man of that infantry
regiment was killed or captured. We then moved on to the
village of James City, driving Kilpatrick’s cavalry before us,