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/icth's />i:-ision Archer's Brigade Thirteenth Alabama Regi- ment aiu I Fifth Alabama Hattalion, and the First. Seventh, and Fourteenth Tennessee Regiments. Pettigrew's Brigade Eleventh, TurntN --sixth. Forty-seventh, and Fifty-second North Carolina Reg- iments. Davis' Brigade Second, Eleventh, and Forty-second Mississippi, and Fifty-fifth North Carolina Regiments. Brocken- brough's Brigade Fortieth, Forty-seventh, nnd Fifty-fifth Regi- ments, and the Twenty-second Virginia Battalion.

Pcnder's Division Scales' Brigade Thirteenth, Sixteenth,

Twenty-second, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-ninth North Carolina Regiments Lane's Brigade Seventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-third and Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiments.

Archer's was made the directing brigade of the line of battle.

BEYOND THE STONE WALL.

All these troops, numbering not more than 14,000, had, with the exception of Pickett's Division, been heavily engaged in the battle of the first of July. Brockenbrough's and Davis's Brigades, with absolutely no supports on the left or rear, unable to stand the tempest of shot and shell, gave way first. Pettigrew's Brigade dashed on, and, when within a short distance of the stone wall, a flanking column on the left poured in a destructive fire of musketry, causing what was left of the brigade to fall back. Archer's Brigade reached nearly, if not quite, the stone wall. From this point they retired to their former position on Seminary Ridge, passing through in a dis- orderly mass, and necessarily demoralizing to some extent the bri- gades of Lane and Scales, which continued to advance, however, some of the men reaching within a few yards of the stone wall; but none of the troops, except Pickett's, passed beyond the wall.

A Federal authority says: "Alexander Hays had several regi- ments well to the front behind stone walls, and on his extreme right was Woodruff's Battery of light twelves. Whether the fire was closer here, or whether, as some claim, the troops in Pettigrew's command were not as well seasoned to war as Pickett's men, it is certain that the attack on Hays was speedily repulsed. That it was pressed with resolution was attested by the dead and wounded on the field, which were as numerous in Hays's front as on any other part of it."

In the published records it is shown that medals were voted by Congress to Federal soldiers for flags captured from Pettigrew's,