PETTIGREW-KIRKLAND-MacRAE BRIGADE.

1. [J. J. Pettigrew, Brigadier-General.
2. §Wm. MacRae, Brigadier-General.
3. Captain Louis G. Young, A. A. G.
4. Captain N. Colin Hughes, A. A. G.

W. W. Kirkland, Brigadier-General. (Picture in Martin-Kirkland Brigade.)

THE PETTIGREW--AIRKLAND--
MACRAE BRIGADE.

By CAPTAIN LOUIS G. YOUNG, A. A. G.

When General Pettigrew was wounded and taken prisoner
at the battle of Seven Pines, near Richmond, Virginia, 1
July, 1862, General W. D. Pender was made Provisional
Brigadier, and placed in charge of his brigade. This was a
mixed command of three infantry regiments from North
Carolina, one from Virginia, one from Georgia, a battalion
from Arkansas and a battery of artillery from Maryland.
In the reorganization of the army by States which followed,
Pettigrew’s Brigade lost its identity, and a new brigade with
the three North Carolina regiments as a nucleus went to Pen-
der, now made a regular Brigadier. After two months im-
prisonment, General Pettigrew was returned to the Confed-
eracy, and as soon as he had sufficiently recovered his health,
he was given a new brigade, and it is of this that I undertake
to give a brief account. General Pender took General Pet-
tigrew’s staff just as he found it, and I remained with him
until after the battle of Cedar Run, 9 August, 1862, when I
received an order from the War Department to report to Gen-
eral Pettigrew. I found him at Petersburg, Va., in com-
mand of his new brigade, which consisted of the Eleventh
North Carolina, Colonel Collett Leventhorpe; the Twenty-
sixth North Carolina, Colonel H. K. Burgwyn; the Forty-
fourth North Carolina, Colonel Thos. C. Singletary; the
Forty-seventh North Carolina, Colonel G. H. Faribault; the
Fifty-second North Carolina, Colonel J. K. Marshall.

Of the origin of this brigade Major Geo. P. Collins writes:
“‘Adjutant-General James G. Martin, of North Carolina, or-
ganized a brigade consisting of the Eleventh, Seventeenth,
Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh and Fifty-second North Carolina
Volunteers, took them down about Kinston, N. ©., was or-