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522 Norra Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

Sharpsburg, until both he and Colonel Iverson went to the
hospital on account of injuries. Then Lieutenant-Colonel -
Johnston assumed command of the brigade and fought under
General Tige Anderson, of Georgia, until night. The next
night the army was withdrawn to the Virginia side of the
river. Colonel Iverson, of the Twentieth Regiment, was pro-
moted to Brigadier-General and assumed command of the bri-
gade. There was no change in the staff. In October, 1862, the
Thirteenth Regiment was transferred to Pender’s Brigade.
The brigade was with General Stonewall Jackson 2 May,
1863, when he executed the flank movement turning the right
of General Hooker and securing a glorious victory for the
Confederates.

It was in the charge that captured the enemy’s breastworks
on the bloody field of Chancellorsville and fought till dark-
ness came, side by side with Pender’s Brigade. It was part
of the Army of Northern Virginia in the second invasion of
Maryland and participated in all the engagements. At the
battle of Gettysburg on the first day, by some mischance, it
was thrown single-handed against a division of the enemy be-
hind a rock wall in a railroad cut where, without faltering, it
charged almost to the very wall. Its dead were so thick and
in so exact a line that one could have walked from one end
of the line to the other and never taken the foot off dead men.

Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, Brigadier-
General Iverson was transferred to the Western Army and
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert D. Johnston, of the Twenty-third
North Carolina Regiment, was promoted to be Brigadier-
General 1 September, 1863.

During the winter following the brigade was stationed at
and near Hanover Junction to cover Richmond from cav-
alry raids, and successfully discharged that duty. It re-
joined the division to which it was then assigned, commanded
by General Early, at the Wilderness on 6 April, and with
Gordon’s Brigade, assisted to drive in the right of the Fed-
eral army, capturing some 2,000 prisoners, including General
Lyman, of New York. At Spottsylvania Court House it re-
captured on 10 May, 1864, the lines from which Rodes’ old
brigade had been driven. It was here that General Lee, who