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trying weather. A little later the bri
gade went to Richmond and was ever
after attached to the Army of Northern
Virginia. It had very full ranks When it
marched from Fredericksburg on its
way by Harper's Ferry to Gettysburg,
Oolonel Burgwyn having been one of the
cadets of the Virginia Military Institute
-who had in 1860 guarded John Brown of
Harper's Ferry -while the latter was
awaiting execution.
It was at Gettysburg that the Twenty
Sixth made the record which gave it a
name, and there the brigade faced the
famous' "Iron Brigade," which lost at
Gettysburg sixty-one per cent of its
strength, the Second Wisconsin losing
the greatest percentage of all the two
thousand regiments in the Federal army,
its loss being seventy-seven per cent of
all those engaged. In a desperate charge
the colors of the Twenty-Sixth were cut
lown ten times and all the color guard
killed, when Colonel Burgwyn seizing
the flag cried out, " Dress on the colors !"
and in a moment was struck by a bullet
which passed through both lungs, and in
falling he was caught in the folds of the
flag and turned around so that he was
wrapped in it. In a moment two other
men who had taken the flag were shot
down, and for the thirteenth time the
flag was on the ground.
Lieut. Col. John R. Lane when told,
4' No man can take these colors and live,"
replied, " It is my time to take them
now. Twenty-Sixth, follow me !" and in
a few moments the Federals gave way
before the fierce charge, and just as Lane
reached the crest of the coveted eminence
a member of the Twenty-Fourth Michi
gan, the last man to retire, turned and
shot him, and down went the colors for
the fourteenth time. Lane was carried to
the field hospital, and there a very singu
lar thing happened. Lane, dreadfully
wounded in the head, was delirious, but
became quiet and found that lying next
to him was a wounded Georgia officer.
Lane heard this officer say, in a com
posed voice, "There, now, Vicksburg
has fallen, General Lee is retreating, and
the South is whipped." He ceased speak
ing and in a few moments an attendant
said he was dead. General Lee did not
retreat from Gettysburg until the even
ing of July 4th and Vicksburg did not
surrender till that day. Lane, now be
come by Burgwyn's death colonel of the
regiment, was removed from the battle
field in a wagon and the wagon train was
attacked by Federal troops. He, though
unable to speak on account of his wound,
got out of the wagon, mounted his horse
and escaped.
The Twenty-Sixth lost more heavily at
Gettysburg than any regiment on either
the Federal or Confederate side during
the entire war, as is shown in that ad
mirable official publication, Regimental
Losses in the Civil War," by Col. William
F. Fox of Albany, N. Y., who declares,
"The Twenty-Sixth North Carolina
heads the list. I have taken great pains
to verify its loss at Gettysburg, for I am
inclined to believe that in time this regi
ment will become as well known in his
tory as the Light Brigade at Balaklava."
As a matter of fact the Twenty-Sixth had
there driven three regiments. The regi
mental loss at Gettysburg, out of a
strength of 800, was no less than 584 on
the first day, and this was brought up on
the third day to 588 killed and wounded
and 126 missing, practically all of whom
were killed, as Colonel Fox states, they
having been lost in Pickett's charge.
Burgwyn, a member of an historic
family, was the youngest colonel in the
Confederate service. One of the com
panies of the Twenty-Sixth, commanded
by Captain Tuttle, went into action on
the first day with 3 officers and 72 men
and came out with 1 officer and 2 men.
Lane, the regiment being recruited,
was its commander until the end of the
war, the men enduring every privation,
being engaged in no end of battles and
ending their career in this famous or
ganization at Appomattox, sticking to
their bloody work until the very last, for
it was at Appomattox that a North Caro
lina brigade fired the last volley and
made the last charge, with the familiar
and dreaded "rebel yell."
There was to be a strange linking of the
Twenty-Sixth with not only the Burg
wyn family but the United States, for as
soon as Colonel Burgwyn fell, his death
very quickly following, his negro body
servant took his horse, sword and gloves
and carried them to Capt. William II. S.
Burgwyn, his brother, who used them
until he surrendered at Appomattox, and
then they were put away as treasured
relics, but when the war with Spain
broke out Burgwyn, who for a time
after the war lived in Baltimore and
who was colonel of the noted Fifth
Maryland Regiment, but who was then
living in North Carolina, was tendered
the command of a regiment of North
Carolina Volunteers by Governor Rus
sell, and came to Raleigh, organized and
drilled his regiment and left with it for
the far South, wearing the same gaunt
lets which his gallant and remarkably
handsome young brother Harry had worn
at Gettysburg and in many other battle3.
Fred A. Olds.
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Less than a half-penny a head is the
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" Of course, we could not do it at the
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giving them a purely vegetarian diet, we
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" The association is supported entirely
by voluntary contributions, and when
ever it is possible we also provide food
for families where the bread-winner is
out of work."
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