| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade. By Earl J. Hess. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xviii, 437 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2687-1.)

The infantry brigade was in many ways the most important organizational and tactical unit of any Civil War army. Large enough to have a significant impact on the course of a battle, it was also small enough for the officer commanding it to play a crucial role in determining the success or failure of his men in combat. Brigades often competed with each other on the march or in battle and for recognition afterward. Unit or state pride often inspired brigades to fight more fiercely and to defend their reputations more intensely than they might otherwise have done.

The brigade including the Eleventh, Twenty-sixth, Forty-fourth, and Fifty-second North Carolina regiments was organized in mid-1862 and commanded successively by James Johnston Pettigrew, William W. Kirkland, and William MacRae. After almost a year in its home state it joined the Army of Northern Virginia in the summer of 1863.

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