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ties made him exceedingly popular in every relation of life.
When a young man he emigrated to Texas, but soon returned
to his native State and settled in Cherokee county. His peo-
ple soon chose him for their sheriff and continued him in that
position until he entered the Confederate army. After one or
two contests opposition to him ceased, as itwas seen to be hope-
less. A fever supervened his wound at Murfreesboro, and
upon the retreat of theConfederates from thatfield he fell into
the hands of the enemy and was sent to Camp Chase, where
he spent many weary months in captivity. When exchanged
his arm was found to be useless, and his health so impaired
that he could no longer serve in the field, and he resigned.
At the close of the war he resumed his residence on his
farm in Cherokee county, taking an active and leading part
in public matters—representing the county in the General
Assembly of 1865-67. In 1880 he removed to Clay county
and spent the remaining years of his life in his favorite pur-
suit of agriculture. He died as he lived, an upright, useful
citizen, universally beloved. He left surviving him a large
number of descendants.

Of Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds, unfortunately, there is
no data of his subsequent career, except that with his father,
General A. W. Reynolds, at the close of the war he went to
Egypt and was for several years in the service of the Khedive.
He died shortly after his return to America. He was not 4
native of North Carolina, but was a graduate of West Point
and an accomplished soldier.

Major Paschal ©. Hughes was born in Macon county 13
October, 1834, and died in Cherokee 10 December, 1878,
leaving surviving him his widow (who was a daugh-
ter of Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson), two sons and two
daughters. At the close of the war he studied law, was ad-
mitted to the bar and soon became known through-
out the Western counties as a safe and ‘reliable counsellor
and faithful business lawyer. His character in every
respect was of the highest; and while he never sought
public honors he always commanded the respect and confi-
dence of all classes of the community. The same stern sense
of duty and exalted courage which characterized him as #

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soldier, marked his civil life and made him that best of all
citizens—a good and useful man.

Jas. D. Harden, Adjutant of the regiment, was born in
Alamance county, but at the time of his enlistment in Com-
pany C, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, was a resident of
Cherokee county. In the famous charge at Chickamauga, on
Sunday, he was shot through the neck and was left for dead
on the field as his comrades swept forward in the charge; but
after months he was sufficiently restored to return to service,
when he was promoted to Quartermaster, and as such faith-
fully served his country in the armies of the West until the
end. He now resides at Cheraw, South Carolina. He mar-
ried the daughter of Judge McIver, of the Supreme Court
of that State.

The writer has ventured to give these short and imperfect
notices of the leading spirits of his old regiment. They are
entitled to have their names and deeds inscribed upon the an-
nals of their people; and if this sketch shall have contributed
anything to the perpetuation of the glory of the services they,

and the men whom they led, rendered their country in
the times of its greatest need, he will be, in some measure,
reconciled to the imperfections of his efforts.

Turo. F. Davinson.

Asnevitie, N.C.,
4 May, 1901.