FORTIETH REGIMENT.

(THIRD ARTILLERY. )

 

By SERGEANT T. ©. DAVIS, Company G.

“Go, warrior, go, thy country calls thee
Now unto the embattled plain
Where gorgeons plumes and glittering crests
Are waving o’er the noble slain.”

This regiment was organized at Bald Head (Smith’s
Island, N. C.;) at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, 1 De-
cember, 1863, from heavy artillery companies organized the
first year of the war, which had been in active service, build-
ing forts, batteries and other defences of North Carolina
coast and rivers, at Hatteras, the Pamlico, Neuse and Cape
Fear rivers, by the appointment of John J. Hedrick (Major
of Engineers) Colonel; George Tait (Captain of Company
K, formerly Major of the Eighteenth North Carolina) Lieu-
tenant-Colonel; William A. Holland (Captain of Company
G), Major.

The staff and company officers and their successors by pro-
motion from time to time in the order named as gathered
from memoranda of participants in the operations of the reg-
iment, were:

 

James B. Hancoox, Adjutant.

Tuomas Hix1, Surgeon.

Cuartes A. Mircuett, Assistant Surgeon.
Joun G. Brount, Quartermaster.
Wirtram D. Neat, Sergeant Major.

CAPTAINS.

FORTIETH REGIMENT. Company A, from Lenoir County, William Sutton, A. W.
- John J. Hedrick, Colonel, 8. William Blount Rodman. Capt., Co C. Ezzell Enlisted men. 124
4 . f on, :

2. George Tait, Lieut.-Colonel, 4. T.C. Davis, Sergeant, Co. G.
Company B, from Beaufort County, William H. Tripp.
Enlisted men, 126.