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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), North Carolina and Virginia. (search)
usketry were opened upon them, it occasioned disorder, but still they advanced gallantly until they reached the stone wall behind which our troops lay. Here ensued a desperate conflict, the enemy succeeding in passing the wall and entering our lines, causing great destruction of life, especially among the batteries. The other reports show what enemy is here meant. It will thus be seen that every one of the official reports, both Federal and Confederate (with the exception of that of Colonel Shep hard, of Archer's Brigade, not composed of Carolinians), which refer to the troops who entered the enemy's works, point unmistakably to those of Pickett's Virginians. This is the positive testimony on this point, and the negative is almost as strong; which is, that none of the official reports from the officers commanding the North Carolina troops make any such claim for their troops—a claim that would certainly have been made if the facts had warranted it. Not only is this true, but Gene