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Rappahannock below Fredericksburg. Colonel James Conner re- joined the regiment while it was stationed there, but was still unfitted by his severe wound for active duty. The services of Lieutenant- Colonel Gray were lost to the regiment at this time. Always a man of delicate health, he died i6th of March, 1863. Major C. C. Cole was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and Captain Odell became major, their commissions dating March 16, 1862 positions that these ex- cellent officers were to hold but a short time.

At Chancellorsville in May, 1863, the regiment was in Jackson's flank attack on Hooker, and throughout the whole of the action was heavily engaged. Its losses were very severe. Colonel Cole and Major Odell were both killed, 219 men and twenty-six out of thirty-three officers were killed or wounded, and though the regi- ment was distinguished by its accustomed efficiency and gallantry, nothing could compensate for the terrible destruction. Chancellors- ville was the eighteenth battle of the 22d Regiment, and the most fatal. It went through the Maryland campaign of 1863 and Gettys- burg with credit. General Wm. D. Fender had been made a major- general and was now in command of the division, and Colonel Alfred M. Scales, of the i3th Regiment, was promoted brigadier in com- mand of the brigade. It participated in the first day's brilliant suc- cess at Gettysburg, was engaged also on the second day, and on the third the brigade was part of General I. R. Trimble's Division, General Fender having been mortally wounded in support of Heth's Division, then under Pettigrew, in the famous charge on Cemetery Heights. In this charge, Archer's and Scales' Brigades occupied and held for a time the Federal works, and when they retreated to the Confederate lines, Scales' Brigade had not one field officer left for duty, and but very few line officers. Its total loss was 102 killed and 322 wounded.

After the return of the regiment to Virginia it was reorganized, when Thomas S. Gallaway, Jr., at one time its major, was elected colonel, to date from September 2ist, 1863; Wm. L. Mitchell was lieutenant-colonel; J. H. Welborn, adjutant; J. D. Wilder, quarter- master; P. G. Robinson, surgeon. Benj. A. Cheek was still as- sistant-surgeon. The line officers, with dates of commission, were as follows:

Company A Captain: Wm. B. Clarke, October 28, 1862; First Lieutenant: Joseph B. Clarke, October 28, 1862; Second Lieutenant: Wm. A. Tuttle, April 25, 1863.

Company B Captain ; First Lieutenant: Robert A. Tate,