600 Norru Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

Troops, went into the fight at Gettysburg, Pa., with 88 an-
swering to roll call on the morning of 1 July, 1863, besides
three commissioned officers, (one private being detailed to
guard our knapsacks).

“Having been wounded on the first day in both a leg and a
foot, I hobbled to the stone bridge two miles South of Get-
tysburg, where I had an opportunity of seeing a great many
of the wounded of the first day’s fight ; and from what I gath-
ered from them and saw myself, the loss of Company F, on
the first day was about twenty-five killed and sixty wounded.
Also, after the second and third day, there was not a single
man left, all being killed or wounded.”

In addition to the above the muster and pay roll of the
company, giving its condition on 30 June, 1863, as it rested
in bivouac that day-about three miles from Gettysburg, is
still preserved by Captain Joseph J. Young, now residing at
Polenta, Johnston county, who was the Quartermaster of the
regiment from the beginning to the end of the war. He has
preserved duplicate copies of the muster and pay rolls of the
regiment, which he values as among his greatest treasures.

This muster and pay roll states that there were present for
duty, three commissioned officers, three Sergeants, two Cor-
porals, one Musician and eighty-four privates; and present
on extra or daily duty, nine privates; total present commis-
sioned, three; total enlisted, 99; aggregate present, 102.
The strength of the Company present and absent is put down
as 134. In addition to the above, we have the following
from Captain James D. Moore, cashier of the First National
Bank, of Gastonia, N. C., who was a private in Company F,
at Gettysburg, viz. : :

el was present at the battle of Gettysburg, a private in
Captain R. M. Tuttle’s company (F), Twenty-sixth Regi-
ment. In the first day’s battle we had 87 men for duty, we
lost every man, either killed or wounded, except one, Sergeant
Robert Hudspeth: I was the 85th man shot, wounded in the
neck and left leg. Henry Coffey (Sergeant), now living
near Lenoir, was the eighty-sixth man shot. Our company
joined the color company on the left, and being’ at the head of

UNPARALLELED Loss. 601

the company, I joined the color guard and was by the colors
during the fight. The entire color guard was killed or
wounded, and a number of officers who picked up the colors
and carried them forward were also killed or wounded,
among them, the young and gallant Colonel Burgwyn. —Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Lane was severely wounded toward the close
of the fight, near the top of the hill. He also had the colors
when he was shot. Of the two left of my company, Henry
Coffey was wounded just after I fell, leaving only Sergeant
Robert Hudspeth surviving unhurt out of our entire com-
pany. This Robert Hudspeth came to see me at the field
hospital on 4 July and he informed me that he had gotten
some four or five men who were on detail as ambulance and
pioneer corps on the first day and were not in the fight on
that day and he took them into the fight the third day. On
that day, Tom Cozart, of Company F, carried the flag ;
Cozart fell (killed) with the colors just before reaching the
stone fence, the others were killed or wounded, and that he
(Hudspeth) was knocked down by the bursting of’ a shell.”
The following are the names of the killed, mortally
wounded and wounded of Company F, Twenty-sixth Regi-
ment, North Carolina Troops, Pettigrew’s Brigade, at the
battle of Gettysburg, Pa., 1-3 July, 1863, as reported to the
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer or Examiner, soon after the bat-
tle, by the Captain—Romulus M. Tuttle—as he lay wounded
in the hospital in Richmond:

We went into the battle 1 July, 1863, with eighty-eight
rank and file and three commissioned officers—the Captain
and two Lieutenants—ninety-one in all. Every man was

either killed or wounded, viz. :
KILLED ON THE FIELD.

Liecutenant—John B. Holloway.
Privates—Robert M. Braswell, Robert H. Carswell, JH,

Coffey, Cleveland Coffey, T. J. Cozart, Thomas Crump,
James Deal, William Fleming, Jackson Gragg, Abram Hud-
son, John C. Lewis, J. B. Littlejohn, Joseph Phillips and
W. E. Phillips (twins), J. P. Shook, A. John Taylor, W. L.

Thompson, M. L. Townsell.—19.
Mortally Wounded, Privates—J. M. Clouts, J. G. Coffey,