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Edward B. Dudley was captain of Company D, Anderson
Artillery, of the Thirty-sixth Regiment. This regiment was
stationed at various points of defense along the Cape Fear. On
November 22, 1864, Captain Dudley was sent with his company
and others under Maj. James M. Stevenson to Georgia to join
the Confederate forces opposing Sherman’s advance to Savan-
nah. Later he returned to Fort Fisher and performed his part

in the epic defense.
Guilford L. Dudley: The First Regiment was organized near

Warrenton in the spring of 1861. G. L. Dudley was appointed
one of the two quartermasters, and was second lieutenant of

Company E, First Regiment. He served with distinction
throughout the Seven Days’ Battle, the South Mountain cam-
paign, and at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, and in other battles. The last volley fired by the
Army of Northern Virginia was fired by North Carolina troops,

and the First Regiment was among the number.
Charles D. Ellis: Shortly after the outbreak of the war the

Legislature of North Carolina, codperating with the Confed-
erate Government in defending the entrance of the Cape Fear
River and Wilmington, passed an act authorizing the formation
of a battalion of heavy artillery (Ninth Battalion, Heavy Artil-

lery), to be composed of three companies, to man the defenses
constructed for the protection of the harbor and the shores close

to the Cape Fear Bar.
The second company (Company B) was organized by Capt.
Charles D. Ellis, and its members were mostly from Brunswick,

Duplin, and other counties near New Hanover. Capt. Ellis,
however, resigned October, 1862, and was succeeded by Capt.
Jacob W. Taylor. In 1863, the three companies were organized
into what was known thereafter as the First Battalion of Heavy

Artillery.
Z. Ellis was one of the three lieutenants in Company B,

raised by C. D. Ellis, and he served with this company through-

out the war.
Henry G. Flanner was originally second lieutenant in Com-

pany F, Thirteenth Battalion. A section of this company served
in the winter of 1863-64 and in the spring of 1864 attached to
MacRae’s (Tenth) battalion in western North Carolina. This
battery, under Capt. H. G. Flanner, was ordered to Virginia in
1862, and served continuously, with the above exception, in
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with great credit. It surrendered at Appomattox. Flanner’s
battery is entitled to the credit of preventing the Federal Army
from entering Petersburg on the morning of the springing of the
mine (July 29).

Capt. Owen Fennell entered the Confederate service as sec-
ond lieutenant of Company C, First Regiment, under Col. M. S.
Stokes, in June, 1861. The regiment did good service during
the Seven Days’ Battles around Richmond and in the Mary-
land campaign, and Lieutenant Fennell shared its marching and
fighting until just after the Battle of Sharpsburg, when he was
made acting assistant commissary of subsistence, with the rank
of captain. He continued in this service until the office was
abolished after the Gettysburg campaign.

Clayton Giles joined Company I, Sixty-third Georgia Volun-
teers, in 1863, and served in that command throughout the war,
surrendering at Greensboro under Gen. J. E. Johnston.

Norwood Giles enlisted as a youth in Moore’s battery, Light
Artillery, Company E, Tenth Regiment North Carolina Troops,
afterwards (on Moore’s promotion to colonel) commanded by
Capt. John Miller. Endowed by nature with a most genial,
pleasing personality, he endeared himself throughout the war
and for years afterwards to a wide circle of devoted friends.
His untimely death, December 11, 1899, was greatly mourned
in our community, and the following lines of appreciation were
written by one who esteemed him very highly:

‘We mourn the death of one in the flower of his manhood
who served so well the purpose of his Creator, and who filled so
completely the hearts of his friends with loving trust and ad-
miration, that the name of Norwood Giles should be inseribed
upon the record of our noblest and best. Who can measure in
this world the quiet influence of a Christian man? He was the
truth of God impersonated, living and moving among men in
daily deeds of goodness, shining in the image of his Maker, and
quietly fulfilling a great and noble purpose.

“Such was his character. A thousand sympathetic hearts will
pay the tribute of a sigh that he is gone, and many lives will be
the better for his unsullied life, which combined the freedom
and joyousness of a child with the chivalry and strength and
self-control of a Christian gentleman. Endowed with superior
intellectual gifts, his scope of knowledge was varied and exten-
sive. Exact and methodical in all the details of his business,
which he conducted with marked ability and skill, he was also a

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