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promoted to heutenant colonel, and served at different points
in defense of the Cape Fear. After the fall of Fort Fisher, Col-
onel Taylor fought at Fort Anderson and Town Creek, on the
retreat to Wilmington, and at Kinston; and he and a part of his
regiment made their way to the field of Bentonville and took
part in that battle, covering themselves with glory as part of the
“Red Infantry,” Colonel Taylor there losing his left arm.
Upon the death of Colonel Taylor, the following tribute of a
devoted friend was published in the Star, May 22, 1912:

“A fellow-townsman recently said to the writer: ‘I never
passed Colonel Taylor upon the street without exercising the
privilege of shaking his hand, because I believed that he exem-
plified in his daily life, to a remarkable degree, those virtues
which adorn the character of the Southern Christian gentleman.’

“His old-time urbanity, his winsome smile, his almost wom-
anly tenderness, his gentle patience, his childlike faith, drew
him to our hearts and we loved him. Probably no citizen of
our community was more generally respected. There was a
quiet dignity in this serene, devout Christian, which told of con-
flicts won while learning to endure hardness as a good soldier,

and of a peace which passes the understanding of this world,
which enabled him to look o’er heights of toil and sacrifice and
find his chief meed in thoughts of duty done.

“During his long and honored life he inspired the hearts and
guided the steps of worthy sons and daughters in the way of life,
to the end that they might ‘glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’
His children rise up and call him blessed.

“In public life he discharged his official duties with diligence,
ability, impartiality, and uprightness. Party lines vanished in
the pure light of his moral excellence, and his return to office
at the expiration of each term, without a dissenting vote, attest
the abiding confidence of his fellow-citizens.

“Eminent among the local leaders of the Lost Cause, he be-
lieved, with his great chieftain, that Duty is the sublimest word
in our language, ‘and by it as a pilot star, he ever steered his
steadfast course.’ He went into his last battle at Bentonville
with Company A, Captain Rankin, Company B, Captain Tay-
lor, Company C, Captain Brown, and Captain McDougal’s com-
pany, and a remnant of the Thirty-sixth Regiment, in all 350
men; and he emerged with nineteen other survivors, an honor-

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the only officer who survived the desperate and bloody charge of
the ‘Red Infantry.’

“He sheathed his sword when the cause for which he fought
was lost, but he put on the invisible armor of the soldier of the
Cross, and has fought a good fight and laid hold on eternal
life. The greater number of his devoted comrades have crossed
over the river and rest with their commander under the shade
of the trees.

“We read that at the roll call of the flower of Napoleon’s
army, the Imperial Guard, as silence fell upon the utterance of
a name which death had claimed from the arms of victory, a
comrade would step forward from the ranks, and, raising his
hand in grave salute, would answer, ‘Died on the field of honor!’
The thin gray line of Appomattox, diminishing day by day as it
yields to the call of the great Conqueror, still closes up its broken
ranks of hoary heads and feeble knees. Soon it will vanish
away and there will be no reverent comrade’s voice to answer
the roll call of the dead. But ‘Death’s truer name is Onward.
No discordance in the roll of that eternal harmony whereto the

worlds beat time!’

‘The glory born of goodness never dies,
Its flag is not half-masted in the skies!’

“In the sessions of his beloved church, our friend will be
greatly missed—in no circle beyond his beautiful home life was
he more welcome than in that of the church of his fathers.

“David Worth, DuBrutz Cutlar, Kenneth Murchison, Wil-
liam DeRosset, Alfred Waddell, John D. Taylor, classmates all
at Chapel Hill, were of the flower of Wilmington, and they are
gone; but to live in the hearts of those we love is not to die.
‘By the light of their lofty deeds and kindly virtues, memory
gazes back into the past and is content; by the light of Revela-
tion, hope looks beyond the grave into the bright day of immor-
tality and is happy.’ ”

Edward D. Hall organized at Wilmington, in the spring of
1861, a company composed principally of Irishmen; and no
better or more loyal men or braver soldiers could be found.
When work or fighting was to be done they were always ready.
This company was first stationed at Fort Caswell; was later
sent to Weldon and attached to the Second Regiment, North

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Carolina Infantry, and ordered to Richmond, and from there
to various points in Virginia until the spring of 1862, when it

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able record, and an empty sleeve. Rankin, Taylor, McDougal
and Brown were desperately wounded, and Colonel Taylor was

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