...e great respect for intrenched positions; but, as has been said, we were lavish of blood in those early days, and an attack on a battery or a strongly-fortified line was deemed especially glorious. Pender 's North Carolina brigade, made up of the Sixteenth, Twenty-second, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth and two battalions of other troops, advanced, as the division commander says, gallantly in the face ...