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FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

1. Jno. L. Cantwell, Colonel.
2. Hector McKethan, Colonel.
3. Robert J. McEachern, Captain,

4. George Sloan, Captain, Co. I.
5. W.F. Murphy, Captain, Co. K.
Co.D. 6. H.C. Rockwell, Captain, A. Q.

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FIPTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

By A. A. McKETHAN, Srconp LisuTenant Company B.

The Fifty-first North Carolina Regiment could well be
called a Cape Fear Regiment, as the ten companies compos-
ing the command came from the counties of Cumberland,
Sampson, Duplin, Columbus, Robeson and New Hanover.

The regiment was organized at Wilmington, N. C., 13
April, 1862, with the following officers, viz. :

Joun L. CantweE tu, Colonel.

Witiram A. Auten, Lieutenant-Colonel.
Hector McKeruan, Major.

J. R. Larra, Adjutant.
_Atexanper Exuiort, Sergeant-Major.

H. ©. Rocxwetx, Captain and Quartermaster.
Wittiuam McKenzis, Quartermaster Sergeant.
Dr. S. B. Morrisey, Surgeon.

Dr. James McGer, Assistant Surgeon.

A. T. Rostnson, Hospital Steward.

Rev. J. B. Atrorp, Chaplain.

The regiment went into camp near Wilmington, spending
the Summer at various camps near that city and at Smith-
ville (now Southport), excepting companies D and K,
which were detached and employed in building the iron-clad
fort on the river a few miles below Wilmington. From Wil-
mington we were ordered in August to Kinston, N. C., part
of the command being employed on picket duty at Core
Creek, about eighteen miles distant.

On 1 October, the Eighth, Thirty-first, Fifty-first and
Sixty-first North Carolina Regiments were organized into a
brigade with Thomas L. Clingman as Brigadier-General.
About this time Colonel Cantwell resigned, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Allen assumed command, and we were employed