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THE FIGHTING TWENTY-SIXTH
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Col. Old Write lntereatlng-ly of
State's Moat famous Ilvgriiiieiit
IN A CASE in the
North Carolina "Hall
of History" are relics
of this state's most
famous regiment in the
Confederate service, the
"Fighting Twenty-
H sixth." which, composed
of companies from the
mountain, piedmont and middle sections
of the state, including three companies
very largely Scotch, under its three
colonels made a record which goes down
in history. The regiment was mobilized
at the great camp of instruction about
three miles out of llaleigh in 1861, the
companies having been organized before
they left home. The commandant of this
camp of instruction was Major Harry
King Burgwyn, who in May of that year,
at the age of nineteen, had graduated at
the Virginia Military Institute. Most of
the companies were from counties which
had bitterly opposed secession until the
proclamation of President Lincoln, April
15, 1861, calling upon Governor Ellis of
North Carolina to furnish this state's
quota of 75,000 volunteers for the United
States service. The company officers of
the Twenty-Sixth elected Capt. Zebulon
B. Vance colonel, who had raised and who
commanded the company from Buncombe
County, choosing Burgwyn as lieutenant-colonel.
The sergeant-major was
Leonidas L. Polk, who in later years be
came the first president of the " Farmers
Alliance," which played so great apart in
politics in North Carolina and other
states. The regiment's first duty was the
defense of Fort Macon, near Beaufort,
N. C, and there an epidemic of measles
and fever killed many from the up
country, who were not used to the seaside.
Early in February, 1862, Roanoke
Island was captured by the Federal forces
and General Burnside threatened New
bern, where on the 14th of March, 1862,
a battle was fought in which Colonel
Vance was put in charge of one wing of
the defenses, the right of the line in his
front being four Massachusetts regi
ments, one New Jersey and one Pennsyl
vania regiment. There were thirteen Fed
eral against six Confederate regiments,
and the latter were forced to retreat, and
in thirty-six hours marched fifty miles to
the town of Kins ton, Colonel Vance nar
rowly escaping death by drowning in a
swollen stream. William A. Graham,
now Commissioner of Agriculture, was a
lieutenant in one of the cavalry regiments
in this action, in which the Confederates
lost 488 men and the Federals 465. Burn
side well won his promotion to be major-
general by this victory,while the Twenty
Sixth on the other side made so fine a
record that recruits flocked to it, and
Colonel Vance asked and got permission
to recruit it to a " legion," but gave up
this plan, finding, .some opposition.
The regiment reorganized and Vance
and Burgwyn received the unanimous vote
for colonel and lieutenant-colonel. Two
young men appeared to be enlisted, hav
ing come from one of the counties at the
foot of the mountains and giving their
names as L. M. Blalock and Samuel
Blalock, having been recruited by one of
the men of the regiment named Woods,
who had been told by L. M. Blalock, in
strict confidence, that Samuel was his
wife and that he would only enlist upon
condition that she be allowed to enlist
with hi in. This the recruiting officer
agreed to, and the enlistment was made.
The disguise was never penetrated, and
the young and handsome woman did all
the duties of a soldier, and was notably
adept at drill. Some months later her
husband fell sick and was discharged,
whereupon the woman-soldier told Col.
Vance of her sex, to his utter astonish
ment, and she was discharged and al
lowed to go home with her husband.
Then a singular thing happened, for the
two Blalocks, the woman's name being
Melinda, at once joined the Fourth North
Carolina Regiment of Union Troops,
commanded by Colonel Kirk, this com
mand being composed largely of desert
ers and men known as " bushwhackers "
and operating mainly along the border
between Tennessee and North Carolina.
The Blalocks were in service with this
regiment in the early spring of 1864, and
while Woods, the man who had enlisted
them in the Twenty-Sixth Regiment,
was at his home in Caldwell county, in
the mountain region, recovering from a
wound, a number of Kirk's men attacked
the house and wounded several persons.
In the fight Melinda was dangerously
wounded and her husband was shot in
the head and one eye put out.
Colonel Vance was elected governor in
August 1862. He was an extremely witty
man and no commander was more be
loved by his men. On one occasion, while
his regiment was in line of battle await
ing an order to charge, it was subjected
to a furious shelling, and at that moment
a rabbit leaped and ran, which caused the
men to shout as it passed down the line.
Colonel Vance joined in the shout, say
ing: "Go it, cotton-tail! If I had no
more reputation to lose than you have I
would run too!" Colonel Vance in his
farewell address to his regiment urged
them to fight until the end and said
plainly that all that could be expected
was war. Burgwyn became colonel and
the regiment was transferred to Petti-
grew's brigade, destined to become so
famous at Gettysburg, it being composed
of the Eleventh, Twenty-Sixth, Forty
Fourth, Forty-Seventh and Fifty-Second
North Carolina regiments.
The regiment was engaged in March,
1863, with the entire brigade in a desper
ate attempt to recapture Newbern, where
the Federals had established what they
termed the capital of North Carolina,
Edward R. Stanley, formerly of North
Carolina, but more recently of California,
having been appointed military governor
by President Lincoln and having nominal
authority in about fifteen counties. In
this attack the Twenty-Sixth marched in
seven days one hundred and twenty-seven
miles, through no end of swamps and in