J.R. Lane. H. K. Burgwyn. Z. B. Vance.
Three Colonels of the 26th N. C. Regiment.

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geous. When duty called Vance from the army to be Gov-
ernor of North Carolina, in the most trying period of the war,
he had gained much from his career as Colonel of the Twen-
ty-sixth that I believe he found valuable in his future duties.
He had a sympahtetic knowledge of the needs of the Con-
federate soldier, the war wrought into his sinews; he knew
how with all his kindness to deal firmly with men and affairs.
He was a better Governor for having been Colonel.”

COLONEL HARRY KING BURGWYN, JR.

A short time after the death of this young officer, born 3
October, 1841, probably the youngest of his rank in the Con-
federate army—obituary notices appeared in the Raleigh pa-
pers. From one of them we copy: “It would be unjust to the
living no less than to the memory of the young hero and
martyr who now sleeps beneath the sod of a distant and for-
eign State, were the death of Colonel Harry King Burgwyn,
Jr., permitted to pass with the brief notice of his fall pub-
lished in a late number of this paper.

“The life, career-and death of young Burgwyn, convey a
lesson to the youth of this Confederacy which cannot be too
well studied and thoroughly profited by. He was the eld-
est son of Henry King Burgwyn, Esq., of Northampton
County, in this State, his mother was Miss Anna Greenough,
of Boston, Mass., and had barely attained the age of twenty-
one years when he attested his love for his country by the sac-
rifice of his life on the altar of its liberties. Born to the en-
joyment of affinence, he might, as too many of our youth do,
have been content to grow up in idleness and luxurious ease.
But such a life had no charms for him. Blessed with a fine
capacity and docile disposition, he well availed himself of the
abundant means of education afforded him by his parents.

“His education preparatory to his entrance into the Univer-
sity of the State, was partly from private tutors in the family
and at Burlington, New Jersey, and at West Point, where he
was a private pupil of Foster,—now the Yankee General at
New Bern. Leaving West Point, he entered the University
of his State, and graduated with the highest honors (1859).
At this period he might, as the phrase goes, have been consid-