North Carolina Memorial
Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
JULY 3, 2001.
JULY 3, 3006.
JULY 3, 2007.
"PICKETTS   CHARGE"

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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 – PICKET
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 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! PULL!   THE NO. 4 OBEYED
ORDERS AND THE GAP MADE IN THAT NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT WAS
SIMPLY TERRIBLE.”   UNDER THIS CALLING 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.”

 ERECTED BY THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

1986

3rd Lieut. William B. Taylor was among the
North Carolinians who took part in the attack
on July 3.   He wrote to his parents,  "our company
went into the fight on the third day with 30 men rank
and file.... Our company came out with 8 men and
myself...."  Taylor was paroled at the end of the war
in 1865 at Appomattox Court House.