if [ i EB 1| if if cae athena 80 Norra Carorina Troops, 1861-’65. Rogers; Second Lieutenants, George V. Snider and W. P. Moore. Company B—Iredell County—Captain, C. M. Andrews ; First Lieutenant, S. Jay Andrews; Second Lieutenants, Richard W. Allison and James N. Turner. Company C—Gates und Hertford Counties—Captain John G. Boothe; First Lieutenant, James M. Wynn; Second Lieutenants, Mills L. Eure and William P. Roberts. Company D—Cumberland County—Captain, James W. Strange; First Lieutenant, T. S. Lutterloh ; Second Lieuten- ants, Joseph S. Baker and James F. Williams. Company E—Nash, Wilson and Franklin Counties— Captain, Columbus A. Thomas; First Lieutenant, A ed Biss oy Vick; Second Lieutenants, Nick M. Harris and Robert W. Atkinson. Company F—Guilford County—Captain Barzillai F. Cole; First Lieutenant, R. W. King; Second Lieutenants, P. A. Tatum and ———— Nelson. Company G—Beaufort Counfy—Captain, Louis E. Sat- terthwaite; First Lieutenant, William Satterthwaite; Sec- ond Lieutenants, Samuel S. Whitehurst and George P. Bryan. Company H—Bertie and Northampton Counties—Cap- tain, John Randolph; First Lieutenant, H. B. Hardy; Sec- ond Lieutenants, W. H. Newsom and George Bishop. Company I—Moore County—Captain, Jesse L. Bryan; First Lieutenant, J. L. Arnold; Second Lieutenants, D. O. Brvan and J. S. Ritter. Company K—Orange County—Captain, Josiah Turner, Jr.; First Lieutenant, William A. Graham, Jr,; Second Lieutenants, John P. Lockhart and James V. Moore. In October the regiment broke camp, Companies D, E, F, I and K, with Colonel, Major and Staff, to Hertford, thence to Edenton; the second squadron (Companies B and G), Lieutenant-Colonel commanding, to Washington, N. C.; the third squadron (Companies © and H), under Captain Boothe, to Neuse River, below New Bern. Company A was at Asheville. While at Edenton there was mention of arming the five NINETEENTH REGIMENT. 81 companies there with muskets and sending them to Roanoke Island as infantry, to remain until relieved by infantr The Colonel favored this, but the company officers objected si it was putting the men inte a different service from that into which they had entered, and for an indefinite time. After several weeks’ “jawing” the idea was abandoned. Major Woodfin commanded the Battalion most of the time while at Edenton, Colonel Spruill being in attendance upon the State (Secession) Convention ; of which he was a member. In De- cember the regiment, except the second squadron, was assem- bled at New Bern. Company A had come from Asheville the fifth squadron (Companies E and K) received hieoes here, and the whole regiment was now mounted but was not armed. Governor Clark complained to the Confederate Government on 12th March, 1862, that the regiment had not been armed, although it had been in service six months. Win- ter quarters were built across the Trent river. These, on the evacuation, were occupied by “runaway negroes” and were the beginning of the present James City. : The regiment took part in the battle of New Bern, 14 March, 1862, Companies A. E and K dismounted, and under command of Colonel Z. B. Vance, Twenty-sixth N. G. T. Af- ter the battle of New Bern the camp was at Wise’s Fork, five miles below Kinston, and for the first time the regiment met asa whole. It picketed the roads to New Bern, the first via Tuscarora, the second via Dover Swamp and the Third via Trenton and near Pollocksville. This was the severest service the regiment saw in its his- tory. A company of from thirty to sixty men would go from twenty to twenty-five miles to the front, establish its Picket in from a half to a fourth of a mile of those of the enemy, who had a “reserve” of several thousand a mile or two in their rear, and General Burnside’s whole command at New Bern, not ten miles from our outpost. For us there was no Teinforcement, except a few “couriers,” in twenty miles. Each company in turn had a picket tour of about ten days on ri of the roads, and frequently the horses were not unsad- ed for re that time. It frequently rained nearly every