Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment

Although nearly destroyed in its successful attack against Meredith's Iron Brigade on July 1, the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment joined 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 in its front. A Rhode Island battery artilleryman recalled that as the regiment charged and had almost reached the wall just in front of them, Sergt. M.C. Olney cried out to fire the gun, and the gap made in the North Carolina regiment was simply terrible. Under this galling fire, the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina was compelled to retire with the brigade to Seminary Ridge, though its men would dress on their colors in spite of the world.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States