Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Young” in chapter 12 of D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina:
...
The North Carolina losses in this battle were startling.
It has been erroneously said that they were raw troops.
If this were so, ambitious generals ought to ask only for such raw troops.
Captain Young states that on the morning of July 1st, Pettigrew's brigade numbered from 2,800 to 3,000 men, and on the 4th only 835 were present for duty.
All the field officers, save one, who was captured, were...
| Max. Freq. | Min. Freq. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.