the command devolving upon Maj. R. F. Webb, who
ably sustained his part."
Meanwhile, on Porter s right stubborn work was doing. There Porter had placed Sykes regulars, the flower of his corps, and they were commanded by a persistent fighter. D. H. Hill, on the extreme Confederate left, and General Jackson, between him and A. P. Hill, moved their divisions against these lines. In Jackson’s division, the only Carolinians were the Twenty-first, Colonel Kirkland, and Wharton s sharpshooters. Of their part in the battle General Trimble says: "The charge of the Sixteenth Mississippi and Twenty-first North Carolina (with sharpshooters attached), sustained from the first movement without a falter, could not be surpassed for intrepid bravery and high resolve."
Anderson’s and Garland’s brigades of D. H. Hill’s division were made up entirely of North Carolinians, Anderson having the Second, Fourth, Fourteenth and Thirtieth; Garland, the Fifth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-third. To these two brigades, stubborn fighters all, belongs the honor of breaking the Federal right, and, as they think, thus making the first opening in the Federal lines that bloody day. General Hill says in his article in "Battles and Leaders:" "Brig.-Gens. Samuel Garland and George B. Anderson, commanding North Carolina brigades in my division, asked permission to move forward to attack the right flank and rear of the division of regulars. The only difficulty in the way was a Federal battery with its infantry supports, which could enfilade them in their advance. Two of Elzey’s regiments, which had got separated in crossing the swamp, were sent by me, by way of my left flank, to the rear of the battery to attack the infantry supports, while Col. Alfred Iverson, of the Twentieth North Carolina, charged it in front. The battery was captured and held long enough for the two brigades (Garland’s and Anderson’s) to advance across the plain. The effect of
