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Rh Roberts brigade. The following batteries are reported: Capt. H. G. Planner’s, Capt John Ramsey’s, Capt. A. B. Williams and Capt. Guion’s.

To break up the wagon trains that were thought to aid in supplying the Confederate army, General Grant ordered the Second and Fifth corps to move on Hatcher’s run. Portions of the Sixth and Ninth corps were after ward sent to reinforce the Second and Fifth. February 6th, General Lee, being apprised of this threat to his right, arranged for parts of Gordon’s and Hill’s corps to meet it. The Federal corps, on establishing line, promptly intrenched. That afternoon Pegram led an attack on the new line and broke General Warren’s front. That was afterward restored, and the success, in which Cooke’s and MacRae’s brigades shared, was without fruit, and resulted in Pegram’s death.

In the brilliant attack on Fort Stedman, Grimes division 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. —