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“They are flanking us! See, yonder’s a whole brigade!” – Garland’s (McRae’s) Brigade – Joe Stahl
On September 14, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia lost one of its rising stars at Fox’s Gap with the death of General Samuel Garland, Jr.. Garland’s brigade was now commanded by Colonel Duncan Kirkland McRae, formerly head of the 5th North Carolina. Three days later, at Antietam, McRae’s 752 demoralized Tarheels would be…