(Col. Henry K. Burgwyn, Jr./ Capt. H. C. Albright)
Primera Brigada (Brigadier General J.J. Pettigrew)
Division de Heth (Maj. General Henry Heth)
Tercer Cuerpo Teniente General Amrose P. Hill)
Ejercito del Norte de Virginia (Generl Robert E Lee)
Gettysburg, 1ro de Julio de 1863
El regimiento 26 de infateria de Carolina del Norte era el regimiento mas grande del Ejercito del Norte de Virginia y ademas fue una de las unidades mas famosas de Carolina del Norte.
El regimiento tuvo una actuacion destacada en la Batalla de Gettysburg.
El primer dia combatieron contra el Regimiento 24 de Michigan de la “Brigada de Hierro” y despues de sufris bajas de mas de mitad del regimiento en esa accion, el 3 de Julio los sobrevivientes fueron parte del ataque masivo al centro de las lineas del Ejercito del Potomac de Picket, Trimple y Pettigrew.
El Regimiento 26 de Carolina del Norte fue el que mas bajas sufrio, en ambos lados del conflicto en la GCA.
Para esta figura use un cuerpo de DML reducido como siempre con una de las cabezas Napoleonicas de Did.
El sombrero(repintado), el rifle Springfiels, la cantimplora y los pantalones son de SST. El estuche de cartuchos es de BGT, con argollas hechas de su propia correa para ponerlo directo al cinturon. El cinturon es hecho de la misma correa del estuche. La hevilla es de BGT. El bolso lateral de Did (Dick). La bayoneta es de SST con la pieza de piel(frog) de BGT y retoques conpintura metalica. La frias enrollada es custom. El pequeño estuche de fulminantes es de SST repintado. Los zapatos son de Did Bruce y la tazita es de ITPT, por fin otro estilo de esta pieza para las figuras! BGT tiene unas nuevas tambien.
La figura esta basada en una laimagen de la portada del osprey #170.
Aqui algunos datos adicionales de este regimiento en ingles:
The regiment was raised in 1861 from central and western North Carolina, with Zebulon B. Vance as its first colonel. Vance was elected Governor of North Carolina in 1861 and command of the unit passed to 20 year old Col. Henry King Burgwyn. The 26th spent the next year defending the North Carolina coast, seeing its first action at New Burn. It then went north and fought in the Seven Days Battles before returning to the North Carolina Coast.
In 1863, it marched northwards to became attached to Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia where they were given the distinction of being not only the largest, but the best trained regiment present. General Pettigrew's Brigade was attached to the 3rd Corps led by Lieutenant General A.P. Hill.
From there the 26th North Carolina marched ever northward in Maryland and later into Pennsylvania. On July 1st 1863 the 26th North Carolina became engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg, fighting at McPherson's Ridge. The regiment lost heavily during a fight with the "Iron Brigade"'s 24th Michigan, losing Burgwyn, the lieutenant colonel, and 588 men out of a strength of 800. The second day of Gettysburg was resting near McPherson's Ridge. On the last day of the battle, the 26th were chosen to take part in the Pettigrew/Pickett's Charge on Cemetery Ridge, losing an additional 120 men and the regimental flag was captured. The regiment lost more men than any other regiment, Union or Confederate, during the battle, including the entire Company F. However, the 26th Did penetrate the federal line on Cemetery Ridge further than the troops led by General Armistead of Pickett's division.
Later in the war, the fought during the Overland Campaign and Siege of Petersburg, and remained in the Army of Northern Virginia until its surrender at Appomattox, VA .
From Heths own report to Capt. W. N. Starke,
Asst. Adjt. Gen., Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia on the actions on July 3, 1863:
Pettigrew's brigade encountered the enemy in heavy force, and broke through his first, second, and third lines. The Eleventh North Carolina Regiment, Colonel Leventhorpe commanding, and the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, Colonel Burgwyn, Jr., commanding, displayed conspicuous gallantry, of which I was an eye-witness. The Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment lost in this action more than half its numbers in killed and wounded, among whom were Colonel Burgwyn killed and Lieutenant-Colonel Lane severely wounded. Colonel Leventhorpe, of the Eleventh North Carolina Regiment, was wounded, and Major Ross killed. The Fifty-second and Forty-seventh North Carolina Regiments, on the right of the center, were subjected to a heavy artillery fire, but suffered much less than the Eleventh and Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiments. These regiments behaved to my entire satisfaction.
Composition at the time of Gettysburg of the First Brigade of Heth’s Division in Lieut. Gen. Ambrose Hill’s Third Corps:
11th North Carolina(Col. Collett Leventhorpe)
26th North Carolina( Col. Henry K. Burgwyn, Jr./ Capt. H. C. Albright)
47th North Carolina ( Col. G. H. Faribault)
52d North Carolina ( Col. J. K. Marshall/ Lieut. Col. Marcus A. Parks)
