360 Chronicles of the Cape Fear River

A. Paul Repiton, a son of Rev. A. Paul Repiton, joined the
Corps of Engineers in 1863. He was a man of fine spirit and

a very efficient soldier.

C. H. Robinson enlisted early in the war, having given up a
good business to respond to the call of his adopted State, and

became quartermaster sergeant of the Fifty-first Regiment,

North Carolina Troops, in which capacity he served throughout

the war.

His regiment was organized at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh,
September 18, 1862, Col. J. V. Jordan, commanding; E. R.
Liles, lieutenant colonel; J. A. McKoy, major; W. H. Battle,
surgeon; John W. Cox, quartermaster; and C. H. Robinson,
quartermaster sergeant.

Frederick G. Robinson, a native of Bennington, Vermont,
joined his prominent relatives on the Cape Fear prior to the
war of 1861, and, full of enthusiasm for his adopted State,
enlisted at the beginning of hostilities in the Wilmington Rifle
Guards, which became Company I of the Eighth Regiment,
North Carolina Volunteers, and with it, and later with the For-
tieth, he did valiant service through all the campaigns to the
Battle of Bentonville, where he was captured. He remained a
prisoner of war until after the general surrender.

The writer, an intimate, lifelong friend, who admired his
brave and generous nature, recalls a characteristic incident in
Sergeant Robinson’s military career. A contemptible comrade

having behind his back questioned his loyalty to the South on
account of his Northern birth, Sergeant Robinson stepped out
of the ranks and publicly denounced the base insinuation, and
offered to fight each and every man then and there who dared to
repeat the allegation.

Beloved by many of his associates, his memory is still cher-
ished in the hearts of his friends.

Capt. Edward Savage was captain of Company D, Third
Regiment, a company raised by him. In May, 1862, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Cowan having been promoted to the coloneley of the
Kighteenth North Carolina Infantry, Captain Savage was made
major. Major Savage was wounded in the Battle of Mechanics-
ville. After the death of Col. Gaston Meares at Malvern Hill,
Major Savage became lieutenant colonel. He resigned after the
battles around Richmond on account of continued ill health.

Capt. Henry Savage was one of the organizers of the Wil-
mington Light Infantry, in 1853, in which he held the rank of

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junior second lieutenant. With this command, which became

Company G of the Eighth, later the Eighteenth, North Carolina
Regiment, he entered the Confederate service in April, 1861,

and in June was promoted to be captain of his company. He
served in Virginia, in the brigade of General Branch, and par-

nemy’s bullets, though hit several times; but, falling a vic-
to disease as the result of arduous service and exposure, he
was sent to a hospital in Richmond, and a few days later allowed

to go home on furlough. Four or five months afterwards,
having in a measure recovered strength, he attempted to rejoin
his regiment, but, suffering a relapse en route, he returned home
and accepted an honorable discharge. In the early part of 1863
he was appointed by President Davis collector of customs at the

port of Wilmington and depositary for the Confederate States
Treasury, and the duties of this position occupied him until the

close of the struggle for independence. After the fall of Fort
Fisher he retired to Raleigh, and, establishing his office in a box
car, moved west as necessity demanded until the fall of the gov-
ernment.

Daniel Shackelford enlisted with Company I, Eighth Regi-
ment, and served in it for twelve months. He reénlisted in the
Nixty-first Regiment and became first lieutenant, and was killed
at the Battle of Fraser’s Farm. His brother Theodore, who was
in the same command, and who was also in the hospital with
him, died literally of a broken heart, grieving because of the
death of his brother,

Dr. Joseph ©, Shepard, of Wilmington, was born in New
Hanover County in 1840, Early in the fall of 1861 he enlisted
im the Confederate States service and, being commissioned as-
sistant surgeon, was assigned to duty on the coast, with Adams’
battery. In the fal] of 1864 he was transferred to Fort Fisher,

ed through the first bombardment and the sec-
r being captured with the brave defenders. He
was sent as a

prisoner of war to Governor’s Island and held
= until early in March following, when he was returned to
u

ty in North Carolina and assigned to the hospital at Greens-
boro, where he remained until after the surrender.

Rev. James A. Smith as a boy participated in the War be-
tween the States, manifesting the same courage and energy
which characterized his subsequent life. At the age of seven-

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