162 Norru Carona TROOPS, 1861-69.

was called the “Caldwell Rough and Ready Boys” : Company
B, of McDowell County, Captain Jas. M. Neal, the * McDow-
ell Rifles” ; Company E, of Guilford County, Captain Colum-
bus ©. Cole, the “Guilford Men” ; Company F, of Alleghany
County, Captain Jesse F. Reeves, the “Alleghany True
Blues” ; Company G, of Caswell County, Captain Edward M.
Scott, the “Caswell Rifles”; Company H, of Stokes County,
Captain Hamilton Scales, the “Stokes Boys” ; Company ds of
Randolph County, Captain Shubal G. Worth, the Davis
Guards”; Company K, of McDowell County, Captain Alney
Burgin, the ‘““MeDowell Boys” ; Company L, of Randolph
County, Captain Robert H. Gray, the “Uwharrie Rifles” ;
Company M, of Randolph County, Captain John M. Odell,
the “Randolph Hornets.” :

Companies © and D, which, as before mentioned, were
transferred to other regiments, were named: Company C, -
Surry County, Captain Reaves, the “Surry Regulators ;
Company D, of Ashe County, Captain Cox, the “Jefferson
Davis Mountain Rifles.”

The organization of the regiment was completed by the ap-
pointment of Lieutenant Graham Daves, of Craven County,
as Adjutant, 24 July, 1861; Dr. James K. Hall, of Guilford
County, Surgeon, 24 July, 1861; Dr. Benj. A. Cheek, of
Warren County, Assistant Surgeon, 24 July, 1861; James
J. Litchford, of Wake County, Assistant Quartermaster, 19
July, 1861; Rev. A. B. Cox, of Alleghany County, 6 July,
1861, Chaplain; and Hamilton G. Graham (Company I), of
Craven County, as Sergeant Major.

First called the Twelfth Volunteers, the regiment was
shortly after numbered and designated the Twenty-second
Troops. The change was made in the Adjutant General’s
office at Raleigh to avoid confusion. With the exception
of the “Bethel Regiment,” or First Volunteers, which served
for six months only, the troops first enlisted were mustered

into service for one year and were called volunteers. The
Legislature, however, also authorized the enlistment of ten
regiments “for three years or the war”—eight of infantry,

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one of cavalry (Ninth), and one of artillery (Tenth),
to be called “State Troops,” and numbered one to ten.
This would have caused the numbering of ten regi-
ments each of “State Troops” and of ‘‘Volunteers” res-
pectively to have been the same, and the numbers of the vol-
unteer regiments were therefore moved forward ten. This
will explain a change in the numbering of the regiments, to
include the Fourteenth Volunteers, afterwards the Twenty-
fourth Troops, which might not to be understood. A dupli-
cation of this sort in the numbering of certain regiments of
Georgia and South Carolina troops did actually exist and
caused much confusion.

The first Captain of A Company was W. F. Jones, of Cald-
well County, who was succeeded by Thos. D. Jones, of the
same. ‘The entire number of rank and file in this company
serving at one time or another during its whole term of ser-
vice was 187 men. Company B had for its first Captain
James M. Neal, of McDowell County, and numbered rank
and file from first to last 171 men. Captain Columbus C.
Cole, of Greensboro, commanded E Company, which num-
bered 184 rank and file, while in service. Jesse F. Reeves,
of Alleghany County, was first Captain of F Company, which
numbered 160 men during its term. J. A. Burns was Cap-
tain of G Company at the organization of the regiment, but
was shortly after succeeded by John W. Graves. The com-
pany numbered in all 145 men. Hamilton Seales, of Stokes
County, was Captain of H Company, which numbered in all
200 men. I Company’s first Captain was Shubal G. Worth,
ef Randolph County. The company numbered 188 men all
told. Alney Burgin, of McDowell County, was first Captain of
K Company; Robert H. Gray, of L Company, and John M.
Odell, of M Company, which numbered respectively, during
their several terms of service, 151, 178 and 146 men. These
figures are mentioned here for convenience, and represent, of
course, enlistments and assignments for the whole period of
the war. At the completion of its organization the regiment
numbered nearly 1,000 enlisted men. Shortly after its or-
ganization it was ordered to Virginia, and made its first halt