Gettysburg's Bloodiest Regiment: The 26th North Carolina

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  @ProjectPast1565 · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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  @larskunoandersen5750 · 1 year ago

  It was not only Gettysburg. The 26th NC was &nbsp;the Rigement who lost the highest number of men but in the war

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  @TheDavidtk240 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I was raised not too far from Gettysburg. I&apos;ve been to that spot a few times. I swear you can pick up an otherworldly sensation from that tragic place especially as dusk approaches, and yet it&apos;s a beautiful area. Those guys, many of them just kids had some SERIOUS stones. God Bless &apos;em. Thanks for the post!

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  @stuartosborne5069 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My 3 Great Uncles were all in the 26th North Carolina Regiment. The oldest, “Granville” was wounded 9 times in the Civil War, 3 times at Gettysburg. Miraculously, all three survived the war. I’ve never made the hike down to Wallaby’s Run, but will make it a priority on our next visit. <br>The family story is, that on hiking back to their farm in Ash County, NC, Granville was covered in festering sores. His father laid him in a spring to numb him, then used a sheep sheers to trim away his festering areas. He survived and I have 3 cousins who are his direct descendants. What a tragic yet captivating history the Civil War is.

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  @MrHand-ih4sz · 1 year ago

  Imagine going through that carnage on the 1st, then walking into the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble affair on the 3rd. <br>Incredible.

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  @MarkWYoung-ky4uc · 1 year ago

  Outstanding video. In July of 2008, The 26th North Carolina reenactment unit participated in the 145th anniversary reenactment and when we did the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble assault on the last day, Captain Dennis Brooks and Private Ken Thomas who are direct descendants of 1st Sgt. James M. Brooks and Private Daniel Thomas carried the 26th North Carolina&apos;s battle flag all the way to the wall as their ancestors did 145 years earlier. The original Brooks and Thomas were captured at the wall along with the 26th North Carolina&apos;s battle flag by men of the 12th New Jersey Volunteers. I have a photo of them (Brooks and Thomas&apos;s descendants ) that someone made before we formed up for the charge with the regiment&apos;s flag. As for me, I was killed on the first day after crossing Willoughby Run and wounded on the third day after crossing the Emmitsburg Rd.

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  @barrysanderson4223 · 1 year ago

  I had no ancestors in the 26th NC, but it was an honor to be a reenactor in the 26th NC, to honor my ancestors who fought in several other NC regiments during the war. The Tar Heel State gave its ALL to the Confederacy at Gettysburg.

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  @robertgibson7141 · 1 year ago

  A great video! I am glad to see the 26th NC get some well deserved recognition for their efforts, first against the 24th Michigan and then enduring enfilading fire in the assault on Cemetery Ridge. Brave men, indeed. I am also very pleased to see the monuments which IIRC were not there on my last visit 25 or so years ago. It&apos;s time to go back while I can!

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  @TheStealthDawg · 1 year ago

  I will never have an ounce of the courage that those boys had fighting in Gettysburg. I’m shocked that they were able to walk with their giant balls dragging on the ground.

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  @Baseballnfj · 1 year ago

  That spot of the battlefield was the most vicious of the entire field... the 26th and 24th Michigan fought the most brutal engagement of that day

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  @paulwingerter8267 · 1 year ago (edited)

  A relative of mine served in Company F 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Corporal Levi Freeman, and was severely wounded on July 1,1863 contesting the 26th NC in Herbst Woods. He survived the war and lived to 1916. Two proud and tough regiments in a duel to the death. I was born and raised in Michigan i.e. Detroit where the 24th was organized. I have been to Gettysburg over 40 times since my first in 1984 and am obsessed as many are with that place and have walked where you are walking pondering like you that awful day! &nbsp;Excellent Video! Keep up the Great work!

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  @marklynn7618 · 1 year ago

  Thanks for the great video. My great great great grandfather, Charles Washington Shaw, was in the 26th, Company H. &nbsp;He fought at McPherson&apos;s Ridge and was wounded in the head during Pickett&apos;s charge and made it back to what was left of his regiment. He is referenced on page 143 of Rod Cragg&apos;s Covered with Glory.

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