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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
sulted in Pegram's death. In the brilliant attack on Fort Stedman, Grimes' divi-sion and other North Carolina troops bore their full share of deadly battle. At Rives' salient, on the day of evacuation of Petersburg, at Southerland's Station, at Sailor's creek, on to Appomattox, the North Carolina infantry were as a wall of fire to the great commander whose peerless worth they reverenced. At Chamberlin's run, so glorious to the North Carolina cavalry under Generals Barringer and Roberts, and in all that hopeless campaign, the Carolina horsemen measured to the full their soldierly duty. At almost every fortified line on the south side of the James, the guns of Carolina's batteries had added to the destruction worked. But all their matchless heroism, combined with that of their dauntless comrades from sister States, could no longer delay the hour of humiliation. And at Appomattox, on the 9th of April, the remnant of as peerless an army as ever stepped under banners surrendered.
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
of bullets, and on the next day led his division in a splendid charge which captured the guns taken from Mahone and many Federal prisoners, winning the compliments of General Lee. Bushrod Johnson's division was now added to his command, and on April 9th the other two divisions of the corps, Evans' and Walker's, were put under his command, he having volunteered to make the attack to clear the road toward Lynchburg. He was successful in driving the enemy from his front, but after receiving reped in the service, and received many compliments. In all drilling contests the Eleventh North Carolina was barred, a tribute to its superiority. He participated in the siege of Washington in the spring of 1863, defeating an attack by the enemy April 9th, at Blount's mill. Then with his regiment he joined the army of Northern Virginia, and fought at Gettysburg in Pettigrew's brigade of Heth's division. In the fierce battle of the first day he was a conspicuous figure and fell severely wounde