FORKTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

By COLONEL THOMAS S. KENAN.

This regiment was organized at Camp Mangum, about
_ three miles west of Raleigh, in March, 1862, by electing
Junius Daniel, Colonel; Thomas S. Kenan (Captain Compa-
ny A, formerly Captain Company C, Second North Carolina
Volunteers), Lieutenant-Colonel; and Walter J. Boggan
(Captain Company H), Major, commissions bearing date 25
March, 1862. Daniel was at the time Colonel of the Four-
teenth Regiment, and soon thereafter was also chosen Colonel
of the Forty-fifth, and accepted. Upon his reporting for
duty he was placed in command of a brigade, of which the
Forty-third afterwards formed a part. Daniel was subse-
quently promoted to Brigadier-General. About 20 April,
Kenan was notified that he had been chosen Colonel of the
Thirty-eighth upon its reorganization at Goldsboro, the in-
formation being officially conveyed by the hands of Lieuten-
ant D. M. Pearsall, of the Thirty-eighth; but he remained
with the Forty-third and was elected its Colonel a few days
thereafter, and William Gaston Lewis (Major of the Thirty-
third) was elected Lieutenant-Colonel, commissions bearing
date 24 April, 1862.

The staff and company officers, and their successors by pro-
motion from time to time in the order named, as appears
from the “Roster of North Carolina Troops,” pp. 196-225,
and gathered from memoranda of participants in the opera-
tions of the regiment, were:

 

 

Apsutants—Drury Lacy, W. R. Kenan.
FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT. Surezeons—Bedford Brown, Jr., William T. Brewer, Joel

Thos. S. Kenan, Colonel. 5. Drury Lacy, Adjutant. B. Lewis.

i Ww. ston Lewis, Lieut.-Colonel. 6. Wm. R. Kenan, 2d Lieut. and 3
James G. Kenan, Captain, Co. A. Adjutant. QuarTERMASTERS—John W. Hinson, Joseph B. Stafford.

i ffin B. , Captain, Co. C. 7. R.H. Battle. 1st Lieut., Co. I. foe
east ienea stata Commissary—W. B. Williams.

CuapLarns—Joseph W. Murphy, Eugene W. Thompson.

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