Julius Leinbach (A Johnny Reb Band from Salem)

Narrative
Julius Leinbach was part of a Moravian regimental band that traveled with the 26th North Carolina.  They actually played on the battlefield at Gettysburg, an event recorded by Leinbach in his diary.

Sources
Donald McCorkle edited Leinbach’s diary and published it in Regiment Band of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina (1958). Important secondary sources on the 26th North Carolina include Archie K. Davis’ Boy Colonel of the Confederacy: The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (1985), Rod Gragg’s Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg (2000), and Earl J. Hess’ Lee’s Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade (2002). Also see Steven Cornelius’ Music of the Civil War Era (2004).

Places to Visit
The 26th North Carolina has two monuments at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One is located on Meredith Avenue and the other one is south of Gettysburg at the Angle on Hancock Avenue. While in Gettysburg you can also visit the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center and the David Wills House.

Artifacts
The Museum of the Confederacy has the 26th North Carolina battle flag in their collection  (see page 53 of this PDF file for details on the flag). The flag was captured by the 12th New Jersey Infantry during the Battle of Gettysburg and was recently on exhibit at the N.C. Museum of History.

Images
The image at the top of this post was originally published in Harry H. Hall’s A Johnny Reb Band from Salem: The Pride of Tarheelia (North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1963). Other images of the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band are also available in this book.

The slideshow below includes images related to the Battle of Gettysburg.