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Nort Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

COMPANY E.

This company was raised in Richmond and Robeson
Counties, 22 October, 1861, and ordered to Raleigh. On ar-
rival at Wilmington the order was countermanded, and the
company remained at Wilmington about three weeks, when
it was ordered to Fort Caswell, at the mouth of the Cape Fear
river, for heavy artillery service.

On 23 February, 1863, the warships Monticello and Daco-
tah opened fire on Fort Caswell, which would return fire.
This was continued for some time, when the ships withdrew,
leaving the fort uninjured.

On 12 July, it was ordered to Bald Head to protect the
blockade-running steamer Kate, then ashore back of Smith’s
Island, and in possession of the enemy. While marching up
the beach with a Whitworth gun, the fleet opened fire on
it, disabling the carriage of the gun so it had to take a posi-
tion among the sand hills, until Company B, from Fort
Fisher, with a Whitworth gun, came to its relief and drove
the fleet off, and took possession of the steamer.

This company remained at Fort Caswell and did garrison
and picket duty, and shared in all the duties of that com-
mand until the formation of the Fortieth Regiment, when it
was assigned to it and ordered to Bald Head for duty.

This was one of the best companies in the service, and had
in it many descendants of Highlanders who fought under
Lochiel at the fatal battle of Culloden, and who displayed
on the sands of Carolina the war-like spirit of their ances-
tors.

COMPANY F.

This company was organized in the fair grounds at New
Bern, N. C., on 28 August, 1861. After remaining there a
few days, was ordered to Fort Macon, N. C., where it re-
mained until 1 November, when it was ordered to Shell
Point on Harker’s Island, where it remained doing picket
duty until about 1 March, 1862, and was then ordered back
to Fort Macon, where it remained and did garrison duty,
and participated in the bombardment and was cap-

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tured at Fort Macon, 26 April, 1862, (with two men
killed) when it was paroled and sent to New Inlet on the
gunboat “Chippewa,” and landed at Fort Fisher under a flag
of truce ; from there to their respective homes, where they re-
mained until 4 September, 1862, when they were exchanged
and reorganized at Goldsboro, N C.; from there the company
went to Kinston and guarded the different fortifications on
the Neuse river, during General Foster’s raid on Goldsboro.
This company participated in the fight at Kinston on 14 De-
cember, White Hall the 16th and Goldsboro the 17th, 1862.
The enemy being defeated fell back to New Bern. It
also participated in Generals Pickett’s and Hoke’s cam-
paigns in the winter and spring of 1863; engaged in the fight
at Washington, N. C., and Deep Gully and skirmished with
the enemy at various points between Kinston and New Bern,
until 16 March, 1864, when it was ordered to Fort Caswell
at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, where it remained about
a month and was then ordered to Fort Campbell, on Oak
Island beach, where it remained until Fort Fisher was cap-
tured. Then ‘it evacuated Fort Campbell and fell back to

Fort Anderson, where it joined the regiment for the first
time.

COMPANY @G.

Some one has said that in writing an account of battles or
campaigns, each writer’s narrative must necessarily be more
or less personal in its nature; but I will try to avoid it in this
instance.

This company was organized at Morehead City, N. C., 16
October, 1861, and went into camp at “Camp Canal,” where
it remained until January, 1862, when it was ordered to
Fort Thompson, on the Neuse river, five miles below New
Bern, where it remained and built batteries, did garrison and
picket duty, and participated in the skirmishes on the 13th,
and battle on 14 March, 1862. It was the heavy discharges
of shot and shell from the guns on Fort Thompson that re-
pulsed a heavy column of the enemy while charging on our
line of works (defended by our infantry), and caused them
to fall back under cover of the woods, with a heavy loss. The