Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment
Pettigrew's Brigade, Heth's Division
Twenty-Sixth
North Carolina Regiment
Pettigrew's Brigade - Heth's Division
Hill's Corps
Army of Northern Virginia
Although nearly destroyed during its successful attack against Meredith's Iron Brigade on July 1, the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment joined in the Pettigrew-Pickett Charge on the Afternoon of July 3. Advancing under solid shot, spherical case, canister, and musketry, the Regiment charged to within ten paces of the stone wall on their front.
The scene was described by an artilleryman of a Rhode Island Battery: "...as a regiment of Pettigrew's Brigade (the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina) was charging...and had almost reached the wall just in front of us, Sergt. M.C. Olney cried out...'Fire that gun! Pull! Pull! The No. 4 obeyed orders and the gap made in that North Carolina Regiment was simply terrible." Under this galling fire, the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina was compelled to retire with the Brigade from this point to Seminary Ridge.
"The men of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment would
dress on their colors in spite of the world."
Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
