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Delaware and shared the bitter experience of the 600 officers
held under fire at Morris Island. He was not released until
June, 1865. It is much to the credit of Captain Lewis’ mem-
ory, that, although efforts were made by his Northern kinsmen
to induce him to take the oath of allegiance while he was a

prisoner at Fort Delaware, he manfully refused and remained -

a prisoner of war until the final surrender.

Capt. J. W. Lippitt was captain of Company G, Fifty-first
Regiment, North Carolina Troops, and commanded the regi-
ment at the surrender at Bush Hill.

Maj. Charles W. McClammy joined a cavalry company com-
manded by Captain Newkirk at the beginning of hostilities in
1861, and was elected lieutenant of this organization. This
company did good service in eastern North Carolina, among its
achievements being the capture of a gunboat of the enemy which
had grounded in New River in Onslow County. Upon the
resignation of Captain Newkirk, Lieutenant McClammy was
promoted to the captaincy. His subsequent gallant career is
well described in the following extract from an address deliv-
ered by Colonel Moore: ‘From the time he gave his services
to his State and country, he was all enthusiasm and dash, and
never lost an opportunity to do his best. In nearly every fight
in which our regiment was engaged he was present in glorious
service. His services were so meritorious that Colonel Baker,
before his capture, spoke of wanting to promote him. When he
was promoted, he was the ninth captain in rank and one of the
youngest, if not the very youngest. He was complimented in

general orders for gallant services in battles on the White Oak
and Charles City Road.”

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served one year on the coast. In the spring of 1862 he became
a member of Rankin’s heavy artillery; but, after a few months’
service, he provided a substitute for that command and volun-
teered as a private in the Fifty-first Regiment of Infantry, in
which he served in 1863 as sergeant major, and during 1864-65,
while able for duty, as acting adjutant. His regiment was at-
tached to Clingman’s brigade and did gallant service in North

‘Carolina and Virginia. He shared its fortunes in battle at

Plymouth, Bermuda Hundred, Drewry’s Bluff, Cold Harbor,
Port Walthall Junction, in the trenches at Petersburg and the
fighting on the Weldon Railroad, and at Fort Harrison and
the Crater. He was slightly wounded at Drewry’s Bluff, Sec-
ond Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, and Petersburg, and

seriously at Fort Harrison. He was last in battle in the de-
fense of Fort Fisher. He surrendered at High Point in the

spring of 1865.
Alexander MacRae: Shortly after the outbreak of the war

in 1861, the Legislature of North Carolina, codperating with
the Confederate Government in defending the entrance to the
Cape Fear River, passed an act authorizing the formation of a
battalion of heavy artillery, to be composed of three companies.
One of the companies was raised by Capt. Alexander MacRae,
of Wilmington. Captain MacRae had been president of the
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, and was then well
advanced in age. Captain MacRae’s company was on duty at
Fort Anderson and at Fort Fisher. In 1863, four companies
were organized into a battalion, with Alexander MacRae as

major, the companies being known as Companies A, B, C, and
D, of the First Battalion of Heavy Artillery. This, with the

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During the Holden-Kirk War, in 1870, favored by the local
factions and divisions of the dominant Republicans, Major

Thirty-sixth and Fortieth Regiments, and attached companies,
formed Hebert’s brigade. After participating in the defense
McClammy and Capt. Samuel A. Ashe were elected to the of the Lower Cape Fear, this brigade returned to Goldsboro
Assembly, and became leaders in the important work of that and fought at Bentonville. Major MacRae was paroled in May,
body, remedying many of the excesses of the Reconstruction 1865.
period, impeaching and deposing the Governor, pacifying the Henry MacRae: The Eighth Regiment, North Carolina
State, and measurably unifying the discordant elements of the State Troops, was organized at Camp Macon, near Warrenton,
white people of the State. Many years then elapsed before New N. C., in August and September, 1861, and Henry MacKae
Hanover had another Democratic representative in the Assem- was commissioned captain of Company ©. Captain MacRae
bly. Later, Major McClammy represented the Cape Fear dis- died while in service.
trict in the Congress of the United States. Capt. Walter G. MacRae, a gallant North Carolina soldier,
William Dougald McMillan enlisted in the spring of 1861, was born in Wilmington, January 27, 1841. He was educated
at the age of sixteen years, in the Topsail Rifles, with which he in New England, entering a private school in Boston in 1856,

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