SCALES'S BRIGADE.

1. Champ T. N. Davis, Colonel, 16th Regt. 4. Robert Patton Dickerson, 2d Lt., Co. C, 34th
Killed at Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. Regt.

2. J. S. McElroy, Colonel, 16th Regt. 5. M. O. Dickerson, Captain, Co. C, 34th Regt.

3. James Justice, Sergeant, Co. G, 16th Regt. 6. Joshua A. Yount, Ist Lt., Co. F, 38th Regt.

 

 

THE PENDEK--SCALES BRIGADE.

By T. L. RAWLEY, First Lizvrenant Company K, anp Actine
ADJUTANT THIRTEENTH Reemment, N. C. Troops.

On 3 June, 1862, just after the battle of Seven Pines, Col-
onel W. D. Pender, of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment,
was commissioned Brigadier-General and placed in command
of the brigade composed of the Sixteenth North Carolina Reg-
iment, Colonel John S. McElroy ; Twenty-second North Car-
olina Regiment, Colonel James Connor; Thirty-fourth North
Carolina Regiment, Colonel R. H. Riddick; Thirty-eighth
North Carolina Regiment, Colonel W. J. Hoke.

The following were Staff officers from time to time:

Assistant Adjutant-General, Captains S. A. Ashe, Graham
Daves, —. —. Riddick; Lieutenant Shepard, A. D. ©.;
Major H. L. Biscoe, Brigade Commissary; Major N. E.
Seales, Brigade Quartermaster (promoted from A. Q. M.
Sixth North Carolina Regiment 11 J une, 1862); Dr. W. A.
Holt, Brigade Surgeon.

General Pender’s was the Sixth Brigade of General A. P.
Hill’s “Light Division” and participated in the Seven Days’
Fight at Mechanicsville, where on 26 June Colonel James
Connor was wounded; Gaines’ Mill, where Colonel Riddick
was severely wounded on 27 June; Cold Harbor, Frazier’s
Farm and Malvern Hill, driving the enemy under the shel-
ter of their gun-boats at Harrison’s Landing, but with great
loss to the brigade, both of officers and men.

About the last of July, A. P. Hill’s Division was placed
in Jackson’s Corps and ordered to the Valley of Virginia and
on 9 August struck General Banks’ right flank at Cedar
Mountain, where, with the other gallant brigades of Hill’s
Division, they drove back the enemy with great loss. On
26 August Pender’s Brigade participated in a splendid vic-
tory over the enemy near Manassas, Jackson’s Corps of about
15,000 men holding Pope’s entire army in check. On 28
Angust the second battle of Manassas began, which lasted for