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of the enemy were wounded by this shelling and fell into our hands the next day, and many were killed.’
The total Federal killed and wounded in this series of battles reached 12,216; they also lost 5,711 prisoners.1 The total Confederate loss in killed and wounded was as follows: killed, 1,581; wounded, 8,700; total, 10,281. North Carolina had fewer regiments than usual with General Lee at this time.
Both Ransom's and Cooke's brigades were on other duty.
There were present in General Lee's army in these battles, 124 regiments and 5 battalions of infantry.
North Carolina had present 24 regiments and 1 battalion.
Nearly exactly, then, one-fifth of the Confederate army was from North Carolina, and one-fifth of the battle casualties would have been, therefore, that State's fair share of loss.
However, of the total Confederate casualties—killed, 1,581; wounded, 8,700—North Carolina lost in killed, 557; in wounded, 2,394.2 Thus more than one-third of the killed, and considerably over one-fourth of the wounded, were sons of North Carolina.
Of the 124 regiments in the army of Northern Virginia, only three regiments3 lost in this battle over 200 men in killed and wounded, and all three of these regiments were from North Carolina.
Of the same number of regiments, only twelve lost over 150 men, and six of the twelve were from the same State.
These twelve and their losses are as follows: Thirty-seventh North Carolina, 227; Second North Carolina, 214; Thirteenth North Carolina, 209; Third North Carolina, 179; Fiftieth Virginia, 170; Twenty-second North Carolina, 169; Seventh North Carolina, 164; Fourth Virginia, 163; Cobb's legion, 157; Fourth North Carolina, 155; Fifth Alabama, 154; Fourth Georgia, 1500.
No words can ever make such undying attestation to North Carolina heroism as is borne by these simple figures.
1 Rebellion Records, XXV, I, pp. 185, 191.
2 Official Report, Rebellion Records, XXV, 1,809.
3 These three are, of course, the three highest on the list of the twelve.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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