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By CHARLES M. COOKE, Apsuranr.

The Fifty-fifth Nortn Carolina Regiment was organized at
Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, in the early part of 1862. The
companies composing the regiment were:

Company A—From Wilson County—William J. Bullock,
Captain.

Company B—From Wilkes County—Abner S. Calloway,
Captain.

Company C—F rom Cleveland County—Silas D. Randall,
Captain.

Company E—From Pitt County—James T. Whitehead,
Captain.

Company F—F rom Cleveland, Burke and Catawba Coun-
ties—Peter M. Mull, of Catawba county, Captain. ©

Comrpany G—From Johnston County—J. P. Williams,
Captain.

Company H—From Alexander and Onslow Counties—
Vandevere Teague, Captain; Alexander J. Pollock, First
Lieutenant.

Company I—From Franklin County—Wilson H. Wil-
liams, Captain.

Company K—From Granville County—Maurice_ T.
Smith, Captain.

Joun Kerr Connery, of Yadkin county, who was for a
while at the National Naval Academy at Annapolis, and

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT. who had been Captain of a company in the Eleventh Regi-

1. A. H. Belo, Colonel. 8. Rev. William Royall Chaplain, ment of North Carolina Volunteers, was elected Colonel

2. John Kerr Connally, Colonel 4. D D Dickson. C; i J egi
Ir ; nel. a d . Captain, Co. C, i
5. C. M. Cooke, 1st Lieut. and acting meant. of the * ment.

Caprarn Ayer 8S. Cattoway, of Company B, was elected

Lieutenant-Colonel.
Caprarn James T. Wurrenxap, of Company E, was elec-

ted Major.