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FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

John B. Palmer, Colonel.
Benjamin F. Baird, Captain, Co. D.
G. W. F. Harper, Major.

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Tsaac H. Bailey, Captain, Co. B.
F. A, Tobey, Captain, Co. A.
Drury D. Coffey, Sergeant-Maior.

FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

By G. W. F. HARPER, Masor.

In preparing the following sketch as a contribution to the
History of North Carolina Troops, official records have been
consulted where accessible. The dates and other memoranda
in many cases were obtained from the writer’s personal jour-
nal, in which daily entries were made during the war.

The part referring to the battle of Bentonville was writ-
ten and published in 1887, in the Raleigh Observer and other
papers in North Carolina and Tennessee. It is much to be
regretted that repeated efforts failed to secure the pictures of
more of the rank and file, and particularly of those devoted
men, officers and privates who laid down their lives for their
home-land on the field of battle.

The writer esteems it a privilege to bear witness to the
courage, patience and endurance of his comrades, and he
offers this imperfect sketch as an humble tribute to the high
soldierly qualities which they uniformly displayed.

The regiment was organized in Mitchell county, North
Carolina, 24 July, 1862, by the election of—

Joun B. Parmer, Colonel, of Mitchell county.

Wx. W. Prorrrrv, Lieutenant-Colonel, of Yancey county,
(resigned in 1863).

Joun ©. Keener, Major, of Yancey county (resigned in
1863).

The regiment was raised as a part of a Legion of the three
arms of the service to be commanded by Colonel Palmer.

The other field, staff and company officers and their suc-
cessors, as appears in the Roster of North Carolina Troops,
Vol. III, p. 633, and Vol. IV., p. 429, with some additions
and corrections made by the writer are as follows, the refer-
ence last named, however, through error of copyist or com-