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Writs H. Litty, Assistant Surgeon.
H. Cray Turner, Sergeant Major. :
Waxrer R. Russert, Quartermaster Sergeant.
W. F. Brooxsutre, Commissary Sergeant.
E. J. DeBerry, Hospital Steward.
. Perper, Ordnance Sergeant.
z sued Charles DeCamp, J. H. C. Pearce, R. F. War-
ren and W. H. Shaw.

Captain Mareus A. Parks, of Company F, haying Hage
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, a .
the officers of this company were advanced one grade, Bs
Sergeant Joseph G. Hall was promoted to the Second Lieuten:

y to fill the vacancy. :

ee fk the aii of the organization of the ee R
was assigned to Brigadier-General J. G. Martin’s et :
About 1 June the regiment was moved from the camp : s
struction by rail to a point in Lenoir county on the rai _
near where the village of LaGrange now stands, and went into
amp.
We named this encampment “Camp Black Jack,” wees!
we remained about a week or ten days, engaged in ae ae
and performing other camp duties. At the expiration 0 : $y
time the command was moved nearer Kinston, where we me
more suitable ground, and this encampment was ca a
“Camp Johnston,” at which point the regiment ere
drilling daily, until the 16th, when it was ordered to = ash
duty about five miles below Kinston. The writer 2 ‘ pt
tenant being detailed to remain at camp and care tor . ce
(of whom there wére quite a number at that time, suffer :
with measles and colds), and guard the camp, did not ae
ticipate in this, the first duty performed by the —, a2
the field. The regiment continued in the discharge 0 ee
duty until relieved by other troops on the 24th, when 1 a
turned to camp and resumed its regular routine duties, v
daily drillings of the officers as well as the men.

On the afternoon of 30 June, orders were received eo ss
all the rations on hand and be ready to move at an hou ye
tice, whereupon all was bustle in the camp and a nase
were promptly complied with. The regiment mov

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the afternoon, taking the cars to Kinston, and thence march-
ing about five miles below the town on the road leading to
New Bern, to meet a column of the enemy advancing in our
direction. Night coming on, the regiment bivouacked by the
roadside, but the enemy, having received information of our
movements, retraced his steps in the direction of New Bern,
and, in consequence, General Martin sent a courier during
the night to Colonel Marshall, ordering him to return to
camp; accordingly the regiment began its march early next
morning and reached camp in the forenoon of 1 July. Rest-
ing this day, we resumed our drillings on the 2d and con-
tinued our routine work until the afternoon of the 5th, when
orders were received to cook three days’ rations and be ready
to move at a moment’s notice. These orders having been
promptly and cheerfully complied with, we were kept in sus-
pense until Tuesday evening, the 8th, when we boarded the
train for the half-way station on the Petersburg & Richmond

Railroad, reaching that point about daylight Friday morning,

the 11th, having been delayed en route by an ex-

press train derailed on the track ahead of us Tuesday

night, and awaited transportation at Petersburg. We
camped temporarily at that point until the 14th, on which
date we marched to Drewry’s Bluff, going regularly into
camp at this place, and naming our encampment “Camp
Campbell.” Here we were engaged in work upon fortifica-
tions, drilling and the various duties of the camp.

Captain James F. Foulkes, of Company B, having re-
signed in order to accept his commission as Surgeon of the
regiment, on 2 July the officers of this company were each
promoted one grade and on 21 July, Sergeant Lindsay ©.
Hardister was promoted to Second Lieutenant. The regi-
ment continued at this camp until the morning of 20 Au-
gust, when we broke camp at daylight and marched to Peters-
burg, Va., to await orders. Here we went into camp about
two miles east of the city and called this encampment “Camp
French.”

On 22 August, Lieutenant Lindsay C. Hardister, of Com-
pany B, died in his tent at Camp Campbell, after an illness
of a few days. About the 26th, the regiment was trans-