...irty-fourth and Thirty-eighth and two battalions of other troops, advanced, as the division commander says, gallantly in the face of a murderous fire to the right of Field's advanced brigade. Under Pender 's personal direction, Col. W. J. Hoke, of the Thirty-eighth, and Col. R. H. Riddick, of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina, joined in a desperate but abortive effort to force a crossing. In this dari...