title: Covered With Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg
author:  Rod Gragg 
description: On July 1, 1863, the 26th North Carolina Infantry marched toward Gettysburg with a strength of 843 officers and troops. Two days later, the regiment could muster only 156 soldiersAa staggering loss of 81.5%, perhaps the highest casualty rate of any Civil War regiment, North or South. Gettysburg is one of the most written-about battles in history, but Gragg (Confederate Goliath, etc.) has mined a host of primary sources for this engrossing study and paints a detailed, vivid picture of the destruction of one of Robert E. Lee's largest units. Following a brief history of the 26th, Gragg follows the Tarheels north from Fredericksburg into Pennsylvania, then moves with the regiment to Herr's Ridge west of Gettysburg. From this vantage point, 21-year-old Colonel Henry K. Burgwyn Jr. led his superbly trained unit into the teeth of enemy fire from two Union Iron Brigade regiments. Although the 26th forced the Yankees back, Burgwyn was killed and the regiment was decimated as bearer after bearer of the unit's flag went down like chaff. After resting on July 2, the regiment took part in Pickett's Charge. Gragg's prose is at its best as he describes the time it took for the gray-clad battle line to cross the mile from Seminary Ridge to the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge, suffering casualties all the while. This exemplary book puts a human face on the 26th North Carolina's tragic loss at Gettysburg and is one of the most original titles on the battle to appear in the past few years. Maps not seen by PW. (Aug.) <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Covered with Glory
  
  Also by Rod Gragg
  Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher
  The Illustrated Confederate Reader
  The Old West Quiz and Fact Book
  The Civil War Quiz & Fact Book
  Planters, Pirates, and Patriots
  Bobby Bagley: P. O.W.
  
  Covered with Glory
  THE 26TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY
  AT GETTYSBURG
  Rod Gragg
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  This work is dedicated to three mountaineers from the Globe:
  Charles Lemuel Gragg (1891–1974)
  Coma Adelaide Gragg (1891–1971)
  and their son,
  Lemuel Wallace Gragg (1914–1998)
  © 2000 by Rod Gragg
  All rights reserved
  Designed by Adam W. Cohen
  Maps by Mark Stein
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  Originally published by HarperCollins in 2000.
  Paperback edition published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010.
  The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability 
  of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of
   the Council on Library Resources.
  The University of North Caroli