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Rae, consisting of only 1,750 men, routed the enemy and
captured 2,100.

“Among. the regiments which suffered the heaviest losses
were the following: The Fifth North Carolina at Williams-
burg, the Fourth at Seven Pines, the Third at Sharpsburg,
the Twenty-sixth at Gettysburg and the Twenty-seventh at
Bristoe Station. At Williamsburg the Fifth lost in killed,
wounded and missing 197 out of 240. At Seven Pines the
Fourth went into battle with twenty-five officers and 520
non-commissioned officers and privates, and lost in killed and
wounded every officer except one and 462 men. At Sharps-
burg the Third lost in an hour and a half 330 out of 520.
At Bristoe the Twenty-seventh lost in less than half an
hour 291 out of 426. At Sharpsburg Company OC, of the
Fourteenth North Carolina regiment* lost in killed and
wounded every man of the forty-five present, and at Chan-
cellorsville the same company carried in forty-three men and
all were killed or wounded except one and a minie ball had
lodged in his haversack. Company F of the Twenty-sixth
lost at Gettysburg every man out of eighty-seven, except one
and he was knocked down by the concussion of a shell.

“No troops were better armed and equipped than those
from North Carolina, and our State was the only one that
clothed her troops during the entire war. Also furnished
clothing for other troops, and at the surrender had 92,000
suits of uniforms on hand and great stores of blankets and
leather; was the only State that was engaged in direct trade
with England and running the blockade. At the close of the
war North Carolina’s commissary was feeding about half of
Lee’s army.

“The day after the battle of Manassas Secretary of War
Benjamin telegraphed Governor Clark that there was not
enough powder for another day’s fight, and requested him to
obtain nitre, which he did. In the fall of 1861 Secretary
Benjamin wrote Governor Clark that it was not necessary to
make large contracts for military supplies for any long time,
as the war would not last long, but the Governor soon after-
wards sent an agent to England to buy arms.”

Over 900 engravings of officers and men, representing

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them, as they looked in those days, give added interest to
these volumes. Nearly one hundred of these—mostly pri-
yates (for no line has been drawn at rank )—have been sent in

by Judge A. W. Graham. He was too young to be in the army
himself, but he had five brothers in the service, each of whom

was wounded and four of whom have contributed articles to
this work. A very large part of the other photographs have
been sent in by the mothers, wives and daughters of soldiers
who with a devotion known only to a woman’s heart have pre-
served these mementoes of a long-buried past, ofttimes the
only relic of their dead, and taking them from their sacred
repositories have had them engraved, a cost they could oft
not afford, that posterity might look upon the lineaments of
the brave who could merit such fidelity.

The engraving of the photographs could not have been
procured but for the assistance of that patriotic Southerner,
Major C. L. Patton, of New York City, President of the

- University Publishing Company, who without reward or

the hope of reward, undertook the supervision of the work
of engraving, securing the lowest, possible cost for the Veter-
ans and providing, at his own expense,the clerical force to con-
duet the correspondence, receiving the photographs and re-
turning them to their respective owners, grouping the en-
gravings and attending to every detail till the last sheet was
printed off and shipped us. Had he been a native North
Carolinian he could not have done more. Our thanks are
also due to his accomplished clerk, who chiefly conducted this
matter, Miss R. S. Adams. To rare business accuracy she
has added a woman’s sympathetic assistance in this work.
The engravings of all the thirty-five North Carolina Gen-
erals have been made at Major Patton’s own expense for
these volumes. Fuller investigation in the Confederate
Archives having shown that Major-General Jeremy F. Gil-
mer and Brigadier-General Gabriel J. Rains were appoint-
ed from this State, their names have been added to the thirty-
three North Carolina generals given in the preface to Vol.
I, and engravings of them have been inserted in this volume.

To Colonel William Lamb, the gallant defender of Fort
Fisher, we are indebted for the full page engraving of the