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FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
*, Edmund Kirby, Lieut.-Colonel.(Killed 4, E. L. Moore Sergeant, Co. E.

at Chickamauzga. )
S. M. Silver, Lieut.-Colonel.
L. W. Gilbert, Captain, Co. H.
E. H. Crump, Sergeant, Co. H.
(Severely wounded at Chickamauga.)

5. J. L. Craig, Private, Co. H. (Captured
1864, and died in prison.)
6. A.C. Craig, Sergeant, Co. H.

ADDITIONAL SKETCH FIFTY-EIGHTH
KECIMENT.

By ISAAC H. BAILEY, Caprarn Company B.

The Fifty-eighth Regiment, Jno. B. Palmer, Colonel com-

manding, was composed of companies from the counties of
Mitchell, Yancey, McDowell, Ashe, Caldwell and Watauga.

Mircnett Counry—Company A, Colonel Palmer’s old
company, commanded by Captain M. D. Wiseman; Com-
pany B, by Captain Isaac H. Bailey; Company K, by Cap-
tain S. M. Silver.

Yancry—Company ©, by Captain S. B. Briggs; Com-
pany G, by Captain J. W. Peck.

McDowrrtt—Company F, Captain C. O. Conley.

Carpwert—Company E, Captain A. T. Stewart, and
Company H, Captain G. W. F. Harper.

Waravea anp Asuz—Captain Geo. W. Hopkins, Com-
pany M.

Waravea—Company D, Captain B. F. Baird ; and Com-
pany I, Captain Jno. A. Miller.

Asuz—Company L, Captain W. Gentry.

There were also three companies of cavalry. Do not re-
member where they were from, except Captain J. Milton
English’s company, from Mitchell. However, they were all
from Western North Carolina. The cavalry companies were
transferred when the idea of creating a legion was dropped.

The first general encampment of the Fifty-eighth North
Carolina was at Johnson City, Tennessee, in the Spring of
1862. They were mustered into service as Partizan Ran-
gers, but were soon attached to the regular army, where they
gallantly submitted themselves to the orders of superior of-
ficers of the Confederate Army.