xii REVIEW AND CONCLUSION.

The number of troops this State furnished is shown here-
in from official records to have been over 125,000 and a full
one fifth of the total force of the Confederacy. The losses
of this State were over 41,000 by death on the battlefield or
from wounds, being the largest loss sustained by any South-
ern State. Though North Carolina furnished one-fifth of
the troops, it also appears that instead of one-fifth of the gen-
eral officers being appointed from this State not one third of
the pro rata, which was her due, received the promotion they
so well deserved. Yet by the general opinion in the Army
Pender, Hoke, Pettigrew and perhaps others, were as com-
petent to command corps and as much deserved promotion as
zny who received the appointment of Lieutenant-General at
the hands of the Confederate government. Brigadier-Gen-
erals Clingman, Lane, James B. Gordon, Matt. W. Ransom,
Seales, and others merited being made Major-Generals, and
the State had many gallant sons who well earned promotion to
Brigadier-General Among many such, it may not be invid-
ious to name Major E. J. Hale, who (General Lane being ab-
sent wounded) planned the successful movement at Fuzzell’s
Mills and virtually commanded his brigade at Reams Station,
a South Carolinian (General Conner) being nominally in
command—Colonel R. Tyler Bennett, the hero of the Bloody
Lane at Sharpsburg—Colonel David Coleman in the Army of
the West (to which we sent eight regiments and had no Briga-
dier after General Vance’s capture in 1863)—Colonel Jno. 8.
McElroy of the Sixteenth, Colonel W. H. Cheek of the
Ninth (First Cavalry) and Colonel T. M. Garrett of the
Fifth all of whom were recommended for this promotion.
These and many others, whether recommended or not, de-
served the honor and were entitled to receive it both on their
own merits and from the number of troops furnished by this
State. But North Carolina was modest, as she always is,
and did not receive just recognition which has ever been
her fate, alike in war and peace.

The following admirable summary of the services of our
soldiers is taken from a recent speech by the eloquent Henry
A. London, now Senator from Chatham, who at the surren-
der at Appomattox, was a member of the Thirty-secorid Regi-

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ment and courier to General Grimes, and carried to General
Cox the order for the last volley fired by that gallant army.
His words deserve preservation.

“With a white population in 1860 of 629,942 and 115,000
voters, North Carolina sent 125,000 soldiers to the Confed-
erate armies, composing eighty-four regiments and eigh-
teen battalions. Three of these regiments were artillery,
eight cavalry and seventy-three infantry. Several of the bat-
talions were artillery and cavalry. Over 41,000 were killed
or died in the service. There were seven Major-Generals
from this State, of whom three were killed, namely: Pen-
der, Ramseur and Whiting. There were twenty-six Brig-
adier Generals from this State; four of whom were killed
and the others, almost without exception, were wounded.

“The first victory was won by North Carolina troops at
Bethel on 10 June, 1861, and they fired the last volley at
Appomattox Court House.

“At Gettysburg 2,592 Confederates were killed and
12,707 wounded, and 3,155 Federals were killed and
14,529 were wounded. Of the killed 770 were North
Carolinians, 435 Georgians, 399 Virginians, 258 Mis-
sissippians, 217 South Carolinians and 204 Alabamians.
The three brigades which lost more killed than any others
in that battle were Pettigrew’s North Carolina (which lost
190 killed) Davis’, composed of three Mississippi and one
North Carolina regiment, which lost 180, and Daniel’s North
Carolina brigade, which lost 165 killed. Pickett’s entire
division lost 214 killed. No brigade in Pickett’s division
lost as many killed and wounded as the Twenty-sixth North
Carolina regiment, whose loss was 86 killed and 502
wounded, which was the heaviest loss of any regiment in
cither army in any battle of the war. There were sixteen
brigades of Confederates in the first day’s battle, of which
seven were from North Carolina. In what is called ‘Pick-
etts’ charge there were nineteen Virginia regiments and fif-
teen North Carolinians. At Reams Station, in August,
1864, after the first efforts of other Confederates had failed,
the three North Carolina brigades of Cooke, Lane and Mac-