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ADDITIONAL SKETCH FORTY-THIRD KEGIMENT.

COMPANY A.

By COLONEL THOMAS 8. KENAN.

The “Duplin Rifles” (organized at Kenansville in 1859)
entered the army in April, 1861, as volunteers, under Thomas
S. Kenan, Captain; Thomas S. Watson, First Lieutenant;
William A. Allen and John W. Hinson, Second Lieutenants ;
and was immediately ordered into the Camp of Instruction at
Raleigh. It was mustered in for six months with the First
Regiment of Volunteers, and assigned to it under Colonel
D. H. Hill, but as this regiment had more companies than
the number allowed by army regulations, the “Duplin Rifles”
and “Lumberton Guards” were taken out, and with eight
other companies, formed the Second Volunteers and elected
Sol. Williams, Colonel; Edward Cantwell, Lieutenant-Colo-
nel, and Augustus W. Burton, Major; the “Duplin Rifles”
being Company C.

The regiment was ordered to Virginia in May, 1861, (a
few days after the First Regiment) and served in and around
Norfolk, without special incident, except at Sewell’s Point,
where a detachment. consisting of this and three other com-
panies was subjected to repeated shellings from the long-
range guns of the Union troops stationed at the ‘‘Rip-Raps.”
At the expiration of the term of service of the “Duplin
Rifles” and “Lumberton Guards” they were mustered out,
and the regiment supplied with other companies in their
stead, and numbered the Twelfth Regiment of State Troops,
after the re-organization.

Upon the return of the company to Duplin county, it was
reorganized under a notice dated 23 December, 1861, for the
war, by electing Thomas S. Kenan, Captain; James G.
Kenan, First Lieutenant; Robert B. Carr and John W. Hin-
son, Second Lieutenants; ordered to Raleigh in March, 1862,