808 NortH CaroLina TRoopS, 1861-65.

ters, the regiment was moved to the mainland and camped
midway between Morehead and Carolina Cities. While in
this camp, Captain McLean, of Company G, was appointed
Acting Assistant Surgeon, and Corporal John R. Lane elected
Captain of the Company.

The winter of 1861-1862 was passed in unremitting drill
and under strict measures of discipline, which got the regi-
ment into fine condition for the opening campaign ; and here
they acquired a reputation for efficiency in drill and obedi-
ence to orders which they retained with increasing eredit until
the final surrender

In October, 1861, General D. H. Hill was appointed to the
command of the District of Pamlico, to be succeeded in No-
vember by Brigadier-General L. O’B. Branch. After the fall
of Roanoke Island (10 February, 1862) and in view of the
threatened attack on New Bern by General Burnside, the reg-
iment was ordered up the railroad within three miles of New
Bern, and there went into bivouac and assigned to Branch’s
command, which as then constituted, was composed of the
Seventh, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-third, Thir-
ty-fifth and Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiments, In-
fantry, and Latham’s and Brem’s Batteries of artillery, Colo-
nel Spruill’s Second Cavalry (Nineteenth North Carolina),
a battalion of militia under Colonel H. J. B. Clark, and some
detached companies. Brigadier-General R. ©. Gatlin, com-
manding the Department of North Carolina and coast de-
fenses, headquarters at Goldsboro, was in supreme command.

BATTLE OF NEW BERN, N. ©. 14 Marcu, 1862.

General Ambrose E. Burnside flushed with his captures of
Fort Hatteras (29 August, 1861) and Roanoke Island (19
February, 1862) was now about to attempt still greater move-
ments on the military chess board, and on 11 March, 1862,
he embarked the brigades of Foster, Reno and Parke and
accompanying artillery, at Roanoke Island and reached Slo-
cum’s Creek where it empties into the Neuse river, some six-
teen miles from New Bern, on the evening of the 12th. Early
next morning, after shelling the country around, General
Burnside disembarked his command, and ordered Foster’s