At Chancellorsville this brigade lost
nearly one-third of its strength in
killed and wounded, and of its thirteen
field officers carried into action all
were shot down killed or wounded
except the gallant young Barry. Here
the noble and fearless Purdie of the
Eighteenth, the gentle but courageous
and dashing Hill, ot the old Seventh,
the heroic boy-captain Johnnie Young,
of the same regiment, Captain Kerr,
Lieutenants Campbell, Bolick, Emack.
Weaver, Bouchelle, Babb, Calb's-, R-r
gin, and other noble spirits lost their
lives in the gallant discharge of their
duties, as did also General Lane's
boy-brother, J. Rooker Lane, who was
acting aid at the time.
In the first day's fight at Gettysburg
Lane's brigade was ordered from the
centre of Hill's line, put on the right
and charged with the responsible duty
of protecting that flank of the army,
in the second day's fight, its skirmishes
under that daring young major, Brown,
of the Thirty-seventh, elicited by their
dauntless bearing a written compli
ment from General Evell, who was in
command of other troops. Next day
it was on the extreme left of the so
called Pickett's charge, and though
flanked by a large force it retired in
order and re-formed in rear of the ar
tillery by order of the battle-scarred
and experienced Trimble. How many
of the brigades in that bloody charge
re-formed as close and stood ready to
repulse the expected counter charge ?
A Northern military writer informs
General Lane that his brigade has
never had justice done it for its valiant
part in that great battle.
