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Veterans Dedicate Monument to Pettigrew at North Carolina Site
A lengthy dedication recounts Braxton Pettigrew’s Civil War service from birth near Tyrrel county to command in Charleston and Petersburg. It notes a July 1863 death after Gettysburg campaigns and lists North Carolina committees and officials coordinating the memorial's placement with Col. LeFevre of Bunker Hill and Col. Boyd of Martinsburg.
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General Pettigrew
Lake Scuppernong
Tyrrel County
N. C
Bonarva
Ebenezer Pettigrew
Congress
America
James, Youngt
James Pettigrew
Boyne
Charles
North Carolina
Young Pettigrew
State University
President Polk
Commodore Maury
Observatory
Washington
James L. Pettigrew
South Carolina
Europe
Charleston
Harop
Charleston Harbor
Castle Pinckney
Morris Island
Thrico
Seven Pines
Richmond
Hampton Legion
Twenty-second North Carolina Infantry
Evansport
Potomac
Peninsula
Petersburg
Gettysburg
Pettigrew
Stoneman
Lee
Pennsylvania
Heth
A. P. Hill
Boyd
Bunker Hill
Christi
Carolina
Antietam Battlefield
New York State
Battle of Antietam
James I. Metts
Julian 8. Carr
A. H. Boyden
Bennehan .Cameron
North Carolina Division
Walter Woodward
B. H. Griffin
James A. Gray
H. A. London
H.L. Riggin
T. W. Bickett
Peter Arrington
J. F. Wiley
T. J. Gold
Samuel Fowle
Alexander Cooper
Latta Johnson
R. Cobb
J. W. Pless
E. C. Chambers
A. L. Smith
W. N. Everett
J. H. Anderson