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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
horse, I ordered Colonel [C. M.] Avery, in command of my left regiment, to move to meet the force above referred to, when he quickly replied, My God, General, do you intend rushing your men into such a place unsupported when the troops on the right are falling back? Seeing that it was useless to sacrifice my brave men, I ordered my brigade back. Letter in same, p. 206. The testimony of scores of others to the same facts is on record. In the Gettysburg cavalry fight, of which W. Brooke-Rawle says, for minutes which seemed like hours, amid the clashing of sabers, the rattle of small-arms, the frenzied imprecations, the demands to surrender, the undaunted replies, and the appeals for mercy, the Confederate column stood its ground, North Carolina had also worthy representation in the enthusiastic charge of its First cavalry regiment under Colonel Baker, and in the meritorious services of the other regiments from that State. In the second place, it is a rule of war, to which the