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last, shots at Appomattox. He was subsequently mayor of Fay-
etteville, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, cap-

tain of the Lafayette Light Infantry, president of the Centen-
nial Celebration, and delegate to State and National conven-
tions.

From a eulogy by Colonel Broadfoot, a fellow-member of the
United Confederate Veterans’ Camp, the following is taken:

“Comrades :—This time it is an artilleryman—Capt. Arthur
Butler Williams, of Brem’s battery, Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, Company C, Tenth Regiment, North Carolina Troops,
whose guns fired the last shot at Appomattox, which will echo
and reécho to the last syllable of recorded time, and gladden all
hearts ready and worthy to do and die for country. In the
sixty-first year of his age he passed quietly to his rest.

“He was of fine presence, good manners, pleasing address,
and withal plain as a pikestaff. His habits were exemplary, his
principles sound, his character the highest; in the community,
in fact, in this part of the State, everybody knew him, everybody
respected, and those who knew him best, loved him.

“We shall miss his manly form, his cheerful greeting—the
eyes that looked you squarely in the face, but always pleasantly.
The open hands are now folded, palm downward; the tongue
that always voiced the bright side, and was never—no never—
known to grumble, has been hushed.

“Comrades, let us speak more often the kindly word, extend
more readily the helping hand to each other; and let each
soldier keep his armor bright against that day, when each in
turn shall be called to pass inspection before the great Cap-
tain—‘Close up.’ ”

Capt. Robert Williams became captain of the Rifle Guards,

but later, resigning, was appointed purser of the blockade runner
Index, and died of yellow fever while in that service.

Capt. David Williams, of the Burgaw section of New Han-

over, raised Company K of the Third Regiment of State Troops,
and was one of the most valued officers of that regiment. He
had the esteem, confidence, and affection of his soldiers to a
remarkable degree.

Thomas Fanning Wood, in April, 1861, joined the Wilming-
ton Rifle Guards, which later became Company I, Eighth Regi-
ment of Volunteers. In November, 1861, the regiment was
hurried to Coosawhatchie to confront the Federals who had
landed on the South Carolina coast; and in the spring of 1862,
it joined Jackson’s corps in Virginia.

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Dr. Wood was often called on to help the sick soldiers in the
hospitals, and after the Seven Days’ Battles around Richmond
he was ordered to hospital duty. When Dr. Otis F. Manson, of
Richmond Hospital, learned that he was a medical student, he
secured from the Secretary of War an order detailing him for
duty at the hospital, with the privilege of attending lectures at
the Virginia Medical College. Doctor Manson had brought his
library to Richmond with him, and gave Dr. Wood free access
to it. In 1862, after passing the examination by the Medical
Board, Dr. Wood was appointed assistant surgeon and served in
that capacity until the end of the war.

After the war, Dr. Wood attained eminence in his profession.
He served many years as secretary of the State Medical Society,
and he established and edited until his death the Medical Jour-
nal, a publication, highly valued by his professional brethren.

John L. Wooster was first lieutenant of Company E, First
Regiment. He was wounded in the shoulder at one of the

Seven Days’ Battles around Richmond in 1862, and disabled
from further service.

William A. Wooster, private, Company I, Eighteenth Regi-
ment, was killed in the Seven Days’ fight in Virginia. He was
one of the brightest young men of the Cape Fear. He had been
commissioned lieutenant before he was killed.

Adam Empie Wright was commissioned the 20th of July,
1862, as assistant surgeon of the New Hanover County Hos-
pital, in Wilmington.

Thomas Charles Wright, sergeant major, was one of the
brightest and best of the Wilmington boys who went from
Jewett’s school to the War between the States. Fired with the
enthusiasm of youth and manly courage, he served with great

credit in the Virginia campaigns and was mortally wounded in
the head and died at a hospital in Richmond.

Capt. James A. Wright, son of Dr. Thomas H. Wright, was
captain of Company E, First Regiment. He was killed in the
battles around Richmond. He was the most brilliant young
man of Wilmington—and of the State—and his early death
was greatly deplored.

Lieut. Joshua Grainger Wright first enlisted for military
duty in the spring of 1862, becoming the orderly sergeant of an
independent cavalry company. But he was with this command

hot more than four or five weeks when he became a member of
the First North Carolina Infantry, which had been on duty in