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tally wounded, and on 27 October he died in the Winder hos-
pital.

Captain William Wilson, Company B, was killed at Get-
tysburg on the first day’s fight gallantly leading his men up
the hill and through MecPherson’s woods. Left school to
join the army, and in June, 1861, was elected First Lieuten-
ant of Company B, Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment.
At the reorganization of the regiment in April, 1862, he was
elected Captain. He would have achieved higher command
had he survived the fateful battle of Gettysburg. He was
buried on the field by the side of his Colonel. They were
stricken about the same time and fell within a few feet of
each other.

Captain William Pinckney Martin, Company H, was born
4 October, 1817. He was elected a delegate to the proposed
Constitutional Convention 28 February, 1861; but as the
calling of the Convention was defeated, he did not take his
seat. His was the first company that volunteered from his
county. It became Company H, Twenty-sixth Regiment.
He was shot in the head at the battle of New Bern just be-
fore the regiment had orders to retreat, and was buried on the
field.

Captain James D. McIver, Company H, was born in
Moore County, N. C., 14 December, 1833; graduated from
Davidson College in June, 1859; volunteered in the first
company raised in his county, and was elected Second Lieu-
tenant in July, 1861. This company became Company H,
in the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment.

On the resignation of Captain Clement Dowd in the Spring
of 1862, Lieutenant McIver succeeded him as Captain of the
company and remained in the regiment until the Fall of
1863; was in all the battles in which his regiment was en-
gaged up to that time, except the battle of Gettysburg, at
which time he was absent on furlough. Captain McIver was
a most gallant and competent officer, and his leaving the regi-
ment was much regretted. After the war he was County So-
licitor, member of the Legislature in 1876, Solicitor of his
District in 1878-1886, Judge Superior Court 1890-1898.

Captain James C. McLauchlin, Company K. This ac-

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complished officer became Captain of his company in the re-
organization for the war, April, 1862. He was wounded at
Malvern Hill and again at Gettysburg, this last time so
severely that it disabled him for service in the field, and he
resigned from the regiment to accept lighter duty. Since the
war for more than twenty years and at the present (April,
1901) Captain MecLauchlin has been Clerk of the Superior
Court for Anson, his native county.

Captain Thomas Lilly, Company K, who succeeded to
the command of his Company, K, on the resignation of Cap-
tain McLauchlin, was also wounded at Gettysburg. He rose
from Corporal and became recognized as one of the best of-
ficers in the brigade. He had command of the sharpshooters
of the brigade, and fell mortally wounded 25 March, on the
lines at Petersburg.

Lieutenant Orren Alston Hanner, Company E, enlisted
28 May, 1861, at the age of 18 as a private in Company E,
Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment; was wounded at
Malvern Hill 1 July, 1862; promoted to Second Lieutenant
of the company in October, 1862; severely wounded at Get-
tysburg 1 July, 1863, and captured on the retreat of the

Jonfederate army; carried first to hospital at David’s Island,
New York, then to prison at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, where
he remained until paroled in March, 1865. Has been a
member of the General Assembly in 1872, 1874, and 1880.

Lieutenant Hanner was one of the bravest and best subal-
tern officers of the regiment. He and his Captain (S. W.
Brewer) were both wounded and captured at Gettysburg, and
the First Lieutenant, John B. Emerson, was mortally
wounded at the same time. Captain Brewer’s and Lieuten-
ant Hanner’s imprisonment prevented their being promoted
to the positions of Major and First Lieutenant respectively.

First Lieutenant Gaston H. Broughton, Company D, was
born in Wake County, 1838, enlisted in Company D, 1861,
was promoted First Lieutenant 28 April, 1862, was wounded
at the foot of the stone wall in the third day’s charge at Get-
tysburg and remained a prisoner till the end of the war. He
has been a farmer and a good citizen since the war and is
now custodian of the Supreme Court building in Raleigh.