Scales's  Brigade:  Brig.  Gen.  Alfred  Moore  Scales.  Gen.  Scales,
bom  in  North  Carolina  November  26,  1827,  became  a  leading  lawyer,
a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  and  then,  in  1858,  a  member  of
Congress.  Enlistiilg  as  a  private,  he  rose  to  be  brigadier  general;  he
was  wounded  at  Gettysburg,  but  returned  to  his  work  in  the  field
when  his  hurts  were  healed.    After  the  war  he  achieved  distinction

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in  law,  spent  ten  years  in  Congress,  and  a  term  in  the  governorship  of
his  native  State.  From  1888  till  his  death  in  1892  he  was  president
of  a  bank  in  Greensboro.  When  he  was  wounded  at  Gettysburg  he
was  followed  in  brigade  command  first  by  Lieut.  Col.  G.  T.  Gordon,
and  then  by  Col.  Wm.  Lee  J.  Lowrance.
13th  North  Carolina.  Col.  J.  H.  Hyman,  when  wounded,  was
followed  by  Lieut.  Col.  H.  A.  Rogers.  The  Official  Records,  once
more,  do  not  afford  an  adequate  list  of  casualties — 126.  The  regi-
mental records  give  the  data  as  follows:  The  regiment  entered  the
fight  with  180,  increased  to  195  by  those  who  were  late  getting  to
the  field.  Of  these  only  ten  were  left  as  the  tattered  remnant  to
get  back  into  Virginia.
i6th  North  Carolina,  Capt.  L.  W.  Stowe.  Losses,  66,  besides  the
missing.
22d  North  Carolina,  Col.  James  Connor.  Losses,  89,  and  the
missing.
34th  North  Carolina,  Col.  W.  L.  J.  Lowrance  (wounded),  and  Lieut.
Col.  G.  T.  Gordon.  Maj.  George  M.  Clark  was  killed.  Total  losses,
64,  besides  the  missing.
