FORTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

3. R. C. Brown, Captain, Co. B.
. Robert Bingham, Captain, Co. G.
. Thos. Hill Norwood, Captain, Co. H.

. Taz-well F. Hargrove, Lieut.-Colonel.
. Elkanah E. Lyon, Captain, Co. A.

FORTY-FOURKTH KEGIMENT.

By MAJOR CHARLES M. STEDMAN.

This brief record of the organization, movements and
achievements of the Forty-fourth Regiment, North Carolina
Troops, could not have been written except for the assistance
of Captains W. P. Oldham, Robert Bingham, Abram Cox,
and Lieutenants Thomas B. Long and Richard G. Sneed, of-
ficers of the regiment, who participated in its career, and
especially am I under obligations to Captain John H. Robin-
son, of the Fifty-seeond North Carolina Regiment, who was
detailed during the latter part of the campaign of 1864, at
the request of General William MacRae, to serve on his staff
as A. A. G., in place of Captain Louis G. Young, who had
been severely wounded. The facts stated in a memorial ad-
dress delivered by the writer in Wilmington, N. C., on 10
May, 1890, on the lite and character of General William
MacRae, in so far as they are connected with the operations
of the regiment, and its participation in the various engage-
ments described have been used without reserve, as they are
known to be correct. nor has there been any hesitancy in quot-
ing from the language of that address, when appropriate to a
description of events constituting alike a part of the history
of the regiment, as well as of the brigade.

This regiment was organized at Camp Mangum, near Ral-
eigh, N. C., on 28 March, 1862, with George B. Singletary
as its Colonel, Richard C. Cotten, Captain Company E, its
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Elisha Cromwell, Captain Company
B, as its Major. Colonel Singletary was killed in a skir-
mish with Federal troops at Tranter’s Creek, in Eastern
North Carolina, on 5 June, 1862. He was an officer of ex-
traordinary merit, and would have unquestionably attained
high distinction but for his premature death. On 28 June,
1862, Thomas ©. Singletary, his brother, was elected Colonel