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SKETCH OF THE 2ND N. C BATTALION. (Wise's, later ou in Darnel's Brigade.) . The next day (Sunday) the flag pole u-nh had been cut down by the enemy blcbil,l and the -Stars and Bars" was rep ftPfl to the breeze. . Tnne 30tb made an early start and a f0S march to Heidelberg, eleven miles ? rt ot Gettysburg. The next morning 'Stand early started again. Had'pro Apa but a short distance when the open- ?uns of that momentous conflict fell 10 n the ear. On arrival were deployed UPHn, ol battle in a skirt of woods. The 1D mv at once began to shell us. Gen. Daniel ordered the brigade to lie down n ready to advance. Whilst he and I S standing just in front of the 2nd Battalion holding our horses, a shell ex ploded in a few feet to the left killing and wounding nine men. Probably no one missile occasioned more loss to life during le war. A little later the men were or dered to rise and advance. The enemy were some five or six hundred yards in front and results showed had set a most deadly trap for us. When half way be tween our starting point and their line, were ordered to lie down whilst our guns jo the rear played on their ranks. Then rose and charged to the brink of the deep cut of the railroad, beyond which at some hundred paces the enemy were drawn up Q The men in their ardor slid down the al most precipitous bank and attempted to scale the opposite, but to no effect. An edfilading battery to our right then opened sweeping "the cut" with terrible effect. Suggesting to Col.Brabble,the senior officer, to face to the left and clear the gap, I scrambled to the top and got one shot at the advancing foe with a musket taken from a sick boy at the start, with whom my horse was left. Believe it , was with effect, as it caused a pause in the line behind and delayed a down pouring fire until we got out of that horrible hole. Assoonas it was done the men who bad behaved like veterans so far, became tem porarily demoralized. Then it was that the soldier loomed up and plucked the flower safety out of the nettle danger. Junius Daniel is the man referred to. In his stentorian tones audible in com mand a quarter of a rail or more away, he ordered the men to halt ana reform ou him. This they did without regard to company or regimental formation almost to a man, advanced at once and inflicted a loss on the enemy, from all accouuts great er than that which they had just sustain ed. A sublime picture of heroism that, od the part of commander and command. Just then I was knocked down by a wound in the head and had to go back to the field hospital. Here the scene was sickening in the extreme. By sundown, hundreds of wounded had arrived, and the horrid work of amputation was going briskly on. Here I pause to pay brief tri bute to an unpretentious hero who did his duty as grandly as any other on that bloody field although his only weapons were scalpel, saw apd bandage. Though Daniel's brigade had the largest wouuded list of any other at Gettsyburg, the surgi cal staff was something: short that day. But there was one who was a host in him selt. For three days and nights with coat ff ? fTes rol,ed op, I do not think ur. Drank Patterson, my old surgeon then brigade surgeon, relaxed in his bloodv work ot mercy half an hour at a time. If closed h,is eyes in sleep during that dread oweaiit escaped my observation although J thirty feet and full view of the operat es: table. "The glorious 4th" w o f0fi 2JXh glorious army, but for kvf .r i. tar awav Vicksburg th ey ot the MiseiLcinn! u j cn i that Lmten beSan in regular order on S ' CaPt. Wm. R. Bond, of Gen. wise 1 8t?ffJ uow of Scotland Neck, like to a on uded and my8elf we assigned Thew'S6 agon driven by Guilford. to d r ordaan. That oigbt having Ws8 through alongdefiUf j?was 8ub KilpatrTcv" ,Wf 'F?' aI?ove, andtnW .'.81UU uavmg naaen aneaa toail t Position on each bank of the be . . uuuK"iy nero snouia nave te raat'ed for Dot captaring that . 10 lrai0, tor It was rr.K7 mi.J K or?nnldrns of cavalry- it . was, he and n? SOme thilty or forty ambulances ttQ(J ordnance wagons Shortlv f. . .. , m. ..J Kwinncr tnrouern tne ueeo brolcA,! road our little mounted, escort Ke and went to the head of the train. An ordnance wagon loaded with old guns, took off one of our rear wheels in trying to pass, and before Bond and I could pick ourselves upa dozen revolvers were bear ing on usTV It was then that volubility told. Guilford with a flow of words un paralleled in his speech before or since convinced the gentlemen on horse back that, "we surrender, we are prisoners, for God's sake don't shoot." Believing that the entire ordnance train was lost and all lost with it, it is within bounds to say that his impromptu eloquence elicited but scant thanks from either of the two "prisoners." Thence were carried to the hospital at Frederick, from theie to Fort McHenry, thence to Fort Delaware for a while and from there to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, which continued to be the residence of most of the officers until near the sur render. My cartel was, I believe, the last one antecedent thereto. Many projects for wholesale escape had been formed during our imprisonment, but were always frus trated by some secret spy or cowardly in former. But to return to the 2nd N. C. Battalion at Gettysburg. It fell short of a full regi ment, and yet it's doubtful whether any full regiment in that matchless army sus tained the loss in killed and wounded that it did. One hundred and fifty-three is au thenticated record. Perhaps it is better to give an excerpt from a letter received from Maj. H. A. London, later on A. A. G. of the brigade, bearing thereon. "The 2nd Battalion at Gettysburg had more men killed and wounded than any full regiment in Pickett's division. It's killed was 29 (including it's commander, Lieut. Col. Andrews) and wounded 124. The 57th Virginia regiment had 26 killed and 95 wounded, which was the heaviest mortality of any of .Pickett's regiments. Maj. James Iredell, who took command after Andrews' death, was killed atSpotts ylvania, where the battalion was nearly all captured, killed or wounded. I do not think any field officer commanded the battalion after Iredell's death. It re mained with Daniel's brigade until the end, but I do not know it's number at Ap pomattox a mere handful, however. It was a noble band and shared fully in all the glory of Daniel's (afterwards Grimes') brigade. Yours truly H. A. London." It was not my proud privilege to command it in that dread baptism of blood. I was only a musket bearer in it's ranks that day, but it did my heart none the lebS good to see how grandly the children of my nurture, knew how to die for cause and country. Whilst it has been shown above that I was no stickler for rank throughout the mighty struggle, I may nevertheless be pardoned for statement bearing on it. Only some six weeks before his death, ex-President Davis told me, in the presence of his wife and youngest daughter in his home at Beauvoir, that as soon as he heard of my return from prison he sent in my nomination to the Senate for a Brigadier General's commission, and presumed it had been confirmed. He supposed, how ever, that in the confusion of the last few days preceeding the evacuation of Rich mond, it had, like many other matters, been overlooked. This was subsequently letter from Mrs. Davis, details. The incident is mentioned more in satisfaction of the good opinion of that errnnd man. the central fieure of that historic epoch, than out of regard for Ian empty title, which per se is not valued 1 at a Dinch of snuff. Pertiment thereto, another statement is ventured which must be taken on faith, as he who made it is no longer in the flesh. On the road one dav. Gen. Daniel told me that iust after the reorganization, the President asked him if he would not advise setting aside the ele stion and re- stnrino mo to the command, as it was primarily an executive appointment in stead of bv election. Darners reply was, "not to that command, as the event how ever injudicious validates the change; but I will most cheerfully recommend him for the first vacant regiment or brigade either at your disposal." Wharton J. Green, First Lieut. Col. Commanding, 2nd N. C. Battalion. confirmed in a with additional Aetna Life Insurance Co. 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