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Raleigh, the city in which he lived over twenty-five years, a lot
in which he wished to be buried. It is as near as he could
secure it to the Confederate Cemetery, where his comrades
sleep in honored, though some in unknown, graves.

Capt. William Rand Kenan enlisted as a private in the
Forty-third Regiment in November, 1863, while attending the
University of North Carolina. He was at once detailed as
sergeant major. In May and June, 1864, he was acting adju-
tant of his regiment, and after that, on account of his gallantry
at the Battle of Bethesda Church, he was ordered by General

Grimes to take command of the sharpshooters from his regiment
with the rank of lieutenant. While serving in this capacity,
he was shot through the body in the fight at Charles Town,
in the Shenandoah Valley, August 22, 1864, which compelled
him to remain at home sixty days. On recovery, he was as-
signed to the command of Company E, Forty-third Regiment,
by Colonel Winston, who sent in an application for his promo-
tion to second lieutenant on account of distinguished gallantry.
This bore the warm endorsement of General Grimes and was
approved by General Early. After three weeks service in com-
mand of Company E, he was appointed adjutant of the regi-
ment, the rank which he held to the close of hostilities.
Among the battles and skirmishes in which he was engaged were
the following: Plymouth, Drewry’s Bluff, Bethesda Church,
Gaines’s Mill, Cold Harbor, Harper’s Ferry, Monocacy, Wash-
ington, D. C., Snicker’s Ford, Kernstown, Winchester, Hare’s
Hill, Petersburg, Sailor’s Creek, Farmville, and Appomattox
Courthouse.

George W. Kidder was a lieutenant in Company A, First
North Carolina Battalion, until he resigned in 1862 or 1863.

Charles Humphrey King entered service in the Wilmington
Rifle Guards, in April, 1861, serving in the occupation of Fort
Caswell. This company was assigned to the Eighth Regiment,
North Carolina Infantry, and he continued with it, earning
promotion to corporal and fourth sergeant, until June, 1862,
when the period of enlistment expired. He then became a
private trooper in the Scotland Neck Rifles; and eight or ten
months later he was transferred to the Sixty-first Regiment,
North Carolina Infantry, as quartermaster sergeant. He was
on duty with this command until the surrender of Johnston’s
army. :

Lieut. William Emmett Kyle enlisted at the first call to serv-

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ice in the famous First Regiment of Volunteers, under Col.
D. H. Hill, and shared the service of that command at Big
Bethel. After the disbandment of that regiment, he entered the
Fifty-second Regiment of State Troops, and was commissioned
lieutenant of Company B. With this regiment, in Pettigrew’s
brigade, he fought in the Army of Northern Virginia, at
Franklin, Hanover Junction, Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Falling
Waters, Bristow Station, Culpeper, Mine Run, the Wilderness,
Spottsylvania Courthouse, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Drewry’s
Bluff, Hatcher’s Run, Southerland’s Station, Reams Station,
Amelia Courthouse, and Farmville, and he surrendered at Appo-
mattox, April 9, 1865. Lieutenant Kyle was wounded three
times—at Gettysburg, Spottsylvania Courthouse, and Peters-
burg—in the head, hip, and leg, and was taken prisoner at

Petersburg, but managed to escape a few hours later. At the
time of the surrender at Appomattox he was in command of the

sharpshooters of MacRae’s brigade.
Col. William Lamb came to Wilmington with General Ander-

son, and at first was quartermaster. His great efficiency caused
him to be elected colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regiment, which
was formed of ten artillery companies for local defense. On
July 4, 1862, he was assigned to the command of Confederate
Point, succeeding Major Hedrick. He advanced the construc-
tion of Fort Fisher, greatly enlarging and strengthening the
works and making it, by 1865, one of the strongest fortifications
in the world. In particular he constructed the Mound Battery,
of a great height, commanding the inlet and intended to protect
the blockade runners and to keep the port open, both of these
objects being successfully accomplished. He was at every point
a most efficient officer, and his defense when the fort was as-

saulted in 1865 was heroic.

As a man Colonel Lamb was of the most attractive personal-
ity. A comrade says of him: “Lamb was one of the most lov-
able men in existence, a fine, dashing young Confederate offi-
cer.’ After the war he returned to Norfolk, where he lived
for many years an active, useful life.

John R. Latta was adjutant of the Fifty-first North Caro-
lina Regiment, organized at Wilmington, April 13, 1862.
About December 1, this regiment was on picket duty near New
Bern, and was under fire for the first time near Goldsboro on

December 17. :
In February, 1863, the Fifty-first Regiment proceeded to