EL Norts Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

Scigncy has been said. That is my opinion. I feel that
way.

The simple, honest truth is that Pickett’s Virginians did
as nobly as they and their friends have ever elgiwiad and the
North Carolinians, Tennesseeans, Alabamians and Misses
pians, under Pettigrew and Trimble, did fully as well.

All old soldiers know that in the thick of a great bat-

tle men are too entirely absorbed in their own part of it to
look-much about them and observe what others are doing.
Furthermore, when a battle ends in defeat, everybody knows
how prone men are to lay the responsibility for it on other
shoulders than their own. So it has been in this case. Cor-
respondents of the press of Richmond, the capital of the Con-
federacy, where they had the ear of the world, reported that
the failure of Longstreet’s assault and our defeat at Gettys-
burg was chargeable to Pettigrew’s and Trimble’s men.
This is a great mistake and a bitter wrong. That defeat was
inevitable, as one can readily see now as he stands on the
ground and observes how strong, how advantageous, how im-
pregnable the Union position was. When the shattered rem-
nants of that heroic column were falling back, our beloved
commander, General Lee, met them and said: “This is all my
fault. It is I who have lost this battle. ‘Fall in, men, and
help me out of it.” He was too magnanimous and too tenth:
ful to blame any of them. Let his noble example be followed.
Let history be just and place a wreath of immortelles on the
graves of them all.

Wma. M. Rosszrns.

GerryspurG, Pa.,
3 July, 1901.

PRPC eres nee

PETTIGREW’S BRIGADE AT
GETTYSBURG.

1-5. JULY, 1065:
By CAPTAIN LOUIS G. YOUNG, A. A. G.

The battle of Gettysburg was not a victory for either side,
yet paradoxically, but rightly, it goes into history as one of
the decisive battles of the war between the States, for it
checked the conquering career of the Southern army, and re-
vived the broken spirit of the North at a most critical time.
A great battle, replete with valiant deeds, heroic efforts, and
fatal mistakes, on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia,
it has been more written of, and has produced more contro-
versy, than all the other battles of the war; and many able,
some brilliant, accounts have been put forth, for the most part
by non-participants, in all of which vital errors are to be
found; and while truth, with its proverbial slowness, has been
taking time to put on its boots, many a falsehood has run its
league and obtained credence. Against some of these my ef-
forts will be directed, with statements of whet I saw, and
what 1 know to be true. Before beginning my narrative,
however, it will be well to recall some of the incidents con-
nected with the campaign into Pennsylvania, which are so
striking that it seems as if an unseen hand had directed them.

General Lee expecting from General Stuart, in command
of his cavalry, a report of the movement of the Army of the
Potomac, and not receiving it, supposed the enemy was still
on the south side of the Potomac, and only on 28 June did he
learn from a scout that they had crossed into Maryland and
were then at and about Frederick. Hitherto General Lee’s
march had been northward with Harrisburg as the objective
point for concentrating his columns. Now, the position of
the enemy’s forees was a menace to his line of communication

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