Show THE NORTH CAROLINA A g great eat many articles have app appeared ared in the thc JheN N New w Y York ox-k ox Sun of or late stating tho the losses of differ different nt regiments in the thear ar war of the rebellion They have excited a great deal of interest among the old soldiers and now an old confederate copies from the National Tribune of February 4 1909 the story of the losses of the Twenty sixth sixth North Carolina at Gettysburg The account says The regiment was sas raised in the interior of North Carolina in July and August 1861 and was made up of the descendants descendants descendants descend descend- ants o of the Scotch-Irish Scotch Presbyterians who had migrated migrated mi ml- grated rated to this country at the time of the religious persecution in England The roster of the regiment regiment regi regi- ment shows that th t officers and men nearly all bore well known Scotch-Irish Scotch names The There re regiment entered the battle of Gettysburg with present for duty and allowing 10 per pel cent for fox extra duty and details this left about muskets Of this number were killed wounded or missing and thirty-four thirty out of the thirty-nine thirty officers were killed or wounded Company F of the regiment stands stands' alone among all the companies in either army for fox the number numb ex- ex of casualties It entered the battle with three officers officer and eighty eight ht enlisted men of whom every on one was killed or wounded in inthe inthe inthe the fight O Of these nineteen were actually killed twelve mortally wounded and sixty wounded but recovered We Ve suspect that they Were Vere in the van of that Pickett charge and of that charge an onlooker says w when cn the tile command came in range of the federal muskets they simply went down b by companies an and regiments and the destruction was so c complete corn com m- m in places that onlookers thought the men had hial dropped down to load but hut the they never rose again |