182 Norra ‘Cardia Troops, 1861~'65.

the: repulsevof! 3: July; ‘the! enerhy advanced a heavy line of
skirmishers land eaptared some! lofithe brigade, but no blame
isito’bd attached toithesen fii esi Said

ci Tiedtehant-OoloneloJ chan a. (Graves, of the Forty-seventh
North Carolina; whose cowlage often elicited comment and
praise) would not! permit those@iof his regiment in his hear-
ihgjisome’450 men toretire; telting them to wait the arrival
of ithe bupports, swith! which they would advance; they were
thén! notofar from theiistone fence. The supports never
reached! this point, wd! thie Lieutenant-Colonel and his men
were|taken prisoneérsi

ofItidsishidthat the Northern soldiers cheered the gallant
dharge:made by the assaulting column on the third day, and
of itadoln it is reported that, Tooking from the steeps of Cem-
etery’ Ridge, he said, “I am proud to be the countryman of
the men who assailed these heights.” -Is it not a crying
shame that while our very enemies do us honor, there should
be some among our own people to slander our rave soldiers ?
The historian of the future will weigh the evidence in the
seales of truth, and do justice to all.

Praise is due to —_— memory, and for ourselves it is good
to render it, since ““we in some measure take part in good ac-
tions when we praise them sincerely.” Heroic deeds are
torches to light the paths of our young, and—

‘“‘Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves.’’

I would like especially to tell of General James J nace
Pettigrew, who was a soldier of the highest attainments;
strength of intellect approaching nearer the attributes of
genius than any it has been my fortune to meet, and in char-
acter like Robert E. Lee. But this article is full long, and I
can only say of our dead heroes, that—

“They died
As they wished to die, the past is sure ;
Whatever of sorrow may betide,
Those who still linger by the stormy shore,
Change cannot harm them now nor fortune touch them more.’

Louis G. Youna.

Savannag, GA,
3 July, 1901.

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right pate ta a regiment (Twenty-sixth) ‘6 ‘on’ the

right ie rl Brigade eonsequently. immediately on the Tett of

Pickett? ig we ‘started, we were on the, diameter of a cir-

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ter. ; We all’ head off in. ais “magnificent style | as. I ever saw,
the ‘Tines pe Feely, formed. On’ we went. When we ‘had
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on ire Aaghed, 6 our “prigade,, and Pickett’s men. I could. see
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the 1h 'Y, whole at then ition, was, directed to our own bri-

gas é nd E tekett's Dison” as, we had been ordered to keep
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advancing the storm of Tea id which now met us. is beyond
descriptinn: eee Gra e and canister ‘intermingled with minies

gnd b bue Pa id it smoke ce was dense. and at. times I could
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seareely d seen my own men from Pickett’s, and to.say

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HETTOD trad {TR Cis £f y7IMH BATTS <
Nore. eth Be rtick : fe an extract.from a letter to tie father of Colonel
Henry IER naw A tf bettas Culpepper © HH. | 30 July; 1863, by John
Bs Font aithe/twenty sixth bp NonnPerointt Regi ment who.as, Major came

uit of the charge, at Gettysbu rg in command of Pettigrew’s brigade and
Was at ecm Pevyeuerue Obseer 18 April, 1864" It has the great

inprit ob: cotgibpsranen evidence, an & most unquestionable
source. ou Bee hicer was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel
té date fis lan Hee erst of was killed’ at the Wildernices: 6 -_, 18647

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