FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

1. Samuel H. Walkup, Colonel.

2. William Hogan Jones, Major.
3. W.H. H. Lawhon, Captain, Co. D.

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5.

John R. Winchester, Adjutant and
Ist Lieut.
John A. Thompson, ist Lieut., Co. G.

FORKTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

By W. H. H. LAWHON, Caprain Company D.

The great civil war began in 1861. Several companies
made up in the summer of 1861, composed of volunteers for
twelve months, in the Spring of 1862 reorganized for three
years or the war. The battles of Big Bethel, First Manassas
and others had been fought ; the result of which had given the
Southern troops courage, and some men in North Carolina,
who had been opposed to secession, were now changing their
minds, so that in the Winter of 1861 and 1862 preparations
were being made on both sides for the next summer’s cam-
paign. The Federal army was recruiting so rapidly that the
authorities of the Confederacy saw that they would have to
meet a heavy force in the field the next summer, so a draft
was ordered in North Carolina 25 February, 1862.

At this time volunteer companies were being raised in all
parts of the State. Many of the patriotic sons of North Car-
olina volunteered, most of the men who were drafted joined
some company then being raised. A few hired substitutes
who joined and thus the companies were rapidly filled up
and hurried off to the camp of instruction, near Raleigh, and
as they arrived they were formed into regiments. The For-
ty-eighth was composed of the following companies:

Company A—Union County—Francis L. Wiatt, Captain.
Company B—Davidson Cownty—Albert A. Hill, Captain.
Company C—Iredell County—Arthur M. Walker, Cap-

tain.
Company D—Moore County—Benjamin R. Huske, Cap-

tain.
Company E—Union County—John W. Walden, Captain.

Company F—Union County—Samuel H. Walkup, Cap-
tain.

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