172 NortH Carorina Troops, 1861~’65. tle here as a member of Stovall’s brigade, but as two of our party on the field were engaged with the brigade which re- ceived the charge of the Confederates, and had special cause for remembering every incident of the struggle there, we had no difficulty in establishing the location. Again reports and maps were brought out, one paced off the distance, another read the statement of brigade and regimental commanders, General Stewart consulted the maps and announced the de- cision. The result was that an oaken tablet, suitably in- scribed, was put up on the side of the road, marking it as the spot where the Sixtieth North Carolina Infantry, at noon 20 September, reached the farthest point attained by the Confed- erate State Troops in that famous charge. 4, It remained now only to trace the route of the Fifty- eighth Infantry from where it crossed the river, to the scene of its magnificent achievement on Snodgrass Hill. Three of our Commissioners were survivors of that regiment, and un- der their guidance, consulting as ever the reports and maps, we had no trouble in following its path from its first service, supporting batteries, across the field just traversed by the Thirty-ninth, to the place where, about the middle of the afternoon, this command, never before under fire, plunged into the bloodiest struggle of the battle, and one of the dead- liest conflicts of the war. Here it was at the base and up to the crest of a wooded hill, that Longstreet hurled six divisions in an attempt to drive Thomas to retreat. The slopes up which it toiled, the ravines through which it fought its way, were again trodden by some of its old officers, and after the fullest discussion, careful examination of printed and verbal testimony, inspection and measurement of the ground, the point where the topmost wave of the tide of Southern battle broke nearer than any other to the unbroken lines of Thomas’ defence, was agreed by us all to have been reached by the Fifty-eighth North Carolina Infantry. During its three hours fighting here, the command lost one-half of its men killed and wounded. This point designated by the tablet which we put up, was not a stone’s throw from the place selected by the Second Minnesota (Federal) Regiment, (whose loss was precisely the same), for its monument. CHICAMAUGA. 178 We may be pardoned for saying that such an interview has seldom taken place upon the battlefield as we witnessed. There were six veterans, some from each contending army, who had borne, among them, every commission from Second Lieutenant up to Lieutenant-General, who thirty years ago had met almost.face to face in the conflicts intent only on designating without error, the exact position of their ancient commands. Having made this location, our task was over. We beg leave to express the hope, however, that men’ who so highly distinguished themselves as the troops of this State did in Kelley’s and Dyer’s fields, and on Snodgrass Hill, should re- ceive from North Carolina statelier monuments and more enduring memorials than simple tablets of oak or iron. This battle field is now visited almost daily. It will surely become the point to which students and travellers will turn by thousands every year, and when it is seen that the South- ern State, which sent the bravest soldiers to the field, has neg- lected them, it will read ill for this Commonwealth. No official location being as yet allowed upon Missionary Ridge, we did not attempt to make any there. While at Chattanooga we were visited by Mr. J. P. Smartt and Mr. E. S. Pinion, the former a soldier in Cheatham’s Division, who knew the position of the cavalry brigade and Ector’s Infantry, the latter a soldier of the Twenty-ninth North Carolina from Jackson County. Their recollection perfectly coincided with the results we had reached as to the location of these troops. Cxrinton A. Cruuey. Chairman. Lenorr, N. C., 3 November, 1893. Nore.—The North Carolina regiments at Chicamauga were brigaded as follows: pres Twenty-ninth—in Ector’s Brigade, Walker’s Division. 2 : Thirty-ninth—in McNair’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, Buckner’s Corps. : Aas : Fifty-cighth—in Kelly’s Brigade, Preston’s Division, Buckner’s Corps. | pode ert Stovall’s pence. "Breckinridge’s Division, D. H. Hill’s Spay fifth (Siath Cavalry )—in Davidson’s Brigade, Pegram’s Division, Forrest's Corps.—Ep.