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FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

By ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Caprraiy Company D.

This regiment was composed of ten companies which assem-
bled at the camp of instruction, known as Camp Mangum,
located on the North Carolina railroad, four miles west of
Raleigh, in the Spring and Summer of 1862.

 

Company A—Camden County, mainly—As twelve
months’ volunteers, they had formed a part of the detach-
ment captured at Hatteras 29 August, 1861, and had recently
been exchanged. Its officers were successively as follows:
G. Gratiott Luke, Captain, April, 1861, elected Lieutenant-
Colonel 31 July, 1862; Noah H. Hughes, Captain, 1 August,
1862, from First Lieutenant 17 April, 1862, died 1 June,
1864; Thomas P. Savilles, Captain, 1 June, 1864, from Sec-
ond Lieutenant, 17 April, 1862; Henry W. Lane, First Lieu-
tenant, 1 August, 1862, transferred from Company G, killed
12 June, 1864; Edward P. Hanks, First Lieutenant, 12
June, 1864, from Second Lieutenant 17 April, 1862; Caleb
L. Grandy, Second Lieutenant, 1 June, 1864; Wm. H. Sey-
mour, Second Lieutenant, 12 June, 1864; Caleb P. Walston,
First Sergeant, became Captain in the Sixty-eighth Regi-
ment.

Company B—Cumberland Cownty—This company came
in under Frank N. Roberts. A good portion of this com-
mand was from the old ante bellum organization known as
the Lafayette Light Infantry, and with their present Cap-
tain had formed a part of the First North Carolina Volun-

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teers known as the “Bethel” Regiment, who were six months

volunteers, and who had been in the battle of Bethel 10 June,
Francis N. Roberts,

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rarest 1861. Its officers in succession were:

Paul F. Faison, Col
'G. G. Luke, pihecton. ‘ 4. John W. Graham, Major. bet ee, pe 2, hed b ‘i ac é

onel. 5 , Captain, 30 September, 1861 (who had been a Lieutenant in
4; Alexander R.

8. H. F. Schenck, Major. by E. J. Hale, Adjutant.
e, 1864, for gallant service from Sec-

 

 

 

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7. James M. Clark, Ensign? 2° Surgeon. the Bethel Regiment), killed 18 June, 186

Carver,.Captain, 18 Jun