486 Norta Carotina Troops, 1861-65.

First Lieutenant, James S. Garland, Mitchell County ; See-
ond Lieutenant, David M. Young, Mitchell County.

Company K—Captain, B. S. Proffitt, Yancey County ;
First Lieutenant, B. G. Whittington, Yancey County; See-
ond Lieutenant, Jas. C. Proffitt, Yancey County; J. R. Neill,
Assistant Quartermaster.

The election of officers occurred in Camp Patton in Sep-
tember, 1861, which resulted as follows:

R. B. Vance, Colonel, of Buncombe County.

Wm. C. Watxer, Lieutenant-Colonel, of Cherokee County.
Tuos. F. Garpyer, Major, of Yancey County.

Joun E. Hory, Adjutant, of Cleveland County.

The vacancies in the companies were filled by the election
of John H. Robinson, Captain Company H; J. Stanhope An-
derson, Captain Company A.

The regiment was then put into camp in Camp Vance, near
Sulphur Springs, N. C., where it was drilled until 28 Octo-
ber, 1861. From thence it was ordered to Raleigh and
camped near the old depot in that city. The companies were
armed then with the old flint muskets changed to percussion
cap muskets, except Captain Anderson’s (Company A),
which was supplied with the Mississippi rifle without bayo-
nets. The command was then ordered to East Tennessee to
guard the bridges from Bristol to Chattanooga, leaving Ral-
eigh 25 November. In February, 1862, it was ordered to
Cumberland Gap and went into garrison under Colonel
James E. Raines, of the Eleventh Tennessee. At this
point the command was under fire frequently, the right
resting on the top of the mountain above the Harlan road,
and the left reaching to Fort Pitt. The camp of the
Twenty-ninth being the highest point for observations, Ma-
jor-General Stevenson ordered Colonel Vance daily to
sweep the view with his field glass from the mountain on
the side next to Yellow creek, and along the Harlan road.
Early on 24 March the Colonel carefully scrutinizing the
country in front, observed the flash of a bayonet. Then
closer view disclosed a column of men advancing up

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the ridge in the direction of Fort Pitt. The guards were
at once doubled, but while we were looking to the front Gen-
eral DeCourcy, of Ohio, with 1,600 men, was moving on our
extreme right. The guards came in and the firing was lively.
On the top of the mountain, above Fort Pitt, we had a big
gun called “Long Tom.” With that we opened on them.
Presently Colonel Vance sent Lieutenant Dewese and Lieu-
tenant Rollins with company D, around the side of the moun-
tain. They opened a hot and unexpected fire on DeCourcy,
and he was driven from the mountain. Next morning we ex-
pected fighting, but when we felt the woods the enemy was
gone.

In September, 1862, the command was sent to hold Baptist
Gap in the direction of Knoxville. While there the regi-
ment was ordered, in company with the Thirty-ninth North
Carolina, to cut off a detachment of Federals which had
marched in the direction of a gap still nearer Knoxville, but
before the regiments reached the cross roads the Federal
command had returned to the gap. When the command got
back to Baptist Gap 15 September, the Federals had driven
in the picket line on the mountain and killed Lieutenant
Astoogatogech, of Thomas’ Legion. The Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-ninth, Colonel David Coleman, were thrown forward
into the thick undergrowth in columns of companies,
marching by the flank, so as to deploy when the enemy was
found, but he had retired on our approach. On 19 Septem-
ber, in the early morning, the Twenty-ninth crossed
through Baptist Gap and moved down the valley,
capturing a hospital camp. This movement was made to
get in the rear of Cumberland Gap, but General George
W. Morgan, commanding at the Gap, had moved out
in the night and had escaped by the Goose creek salt works.
Our Major-General Stevenson pursued to within the vicinity
of the salt works, where he halted, rested and retraced his
steps, passing into Kentucky via Danville, Lancaster, Har-
rodsburg, ete., to Frankfort.

From there we moved, on Saturday night, to Versailles,
from which point on Sunday we could hear the guns at Per-
ryville. Without multiplying words, let it be said that the

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