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AN INCIDENT AT GETTYSBURG.

THE TWO COLONELS.

KENAN, C. S. A., AND CALLIS, U. S. A.

This correspondence is published as illustrative of many
similar occurren¢es between officers and men of the opposing
forces. It also contains a statement of the operations of the
first day’s fight at Gettysburg by a Union officer who was a
participant.

An interesting coincidence about it is that both gentle-
men were born in the Cape Fear region of our State—one in
Duplin and the other in Cumberland county. After the war
both were members of the Legislature of their respective
States. In 1868 both were Democratic candidates for a seat
in the United States House of Representatives, Callis being
elected in Wisconsin, but Kenan defeated by the large Repub-
lican majority in his district in North Carolina:.

Rarzien, N. C., 22 August, 1893.
General John B. Callis, Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin:
My Dear Str:—Upon a recent visit to Gettysburg and
going over the ground where the first day’s battle was fought,

I was forcibly reminded of the circumstances under which I

met you, and which have been related by me to others, num-
bers of times in the last thirty years.

You and I were in opposing commands. You were Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the Seventh Wisconsin, and I was Colonel
of the Forty-third North Carolina Infantry, Daniel’s Bri-
gade, Rodes’ Division, Ewell’s Corps. After the engage-
ment had continued for some time the Union forces fell back
and occupied Seminary Ridge, and later in the afternoon this
became the point of attack by the Confederates and was car-
ried by them. The firing having ceased and comparative
quiet restored, Lieutenant Shepherd, of my regiment, re-
ported to me that among the wounded in our front was Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Callis, of the Seventh Wisconsin, and that he