1. James M. Ray, Lieut.-Colonel.

2. James T. Weaver, Lieut.-Colonel,
(Killed at Columbia, Tenn., De-
cember 7, 1864 )

8. Thad Coleman, Lieut.-Colonel.

 

 

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SIXTIETH REGIMENT,
4,

James T. Huff, Major.

M. C. Toms, Captain, Co. A.

Robert L. Coleman, Captain, A. C. S.
John G. Chambers, 1st Lieut., Co. C.

 

SIXTIETH KEQIMENT.

By JAMES M. RAY, Lieutenant CoLoneEL.

The Sixtieth Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confed-
erate States Army, more largely representative of Asheville
and Buncombe than any other regiment going out from this
State, had its nucleus in a battalion of State troops. The or-
ganization of said battalion having been authorized by the
Governor of North Carolina early in 1862, Dr. Joseph A.
McDowell, of Warm Springs, Madison county, a member at
that time of the Legislature, was invested with power to raise
it. He called to his aid a number of well known gentlemen
who raised the companies, and in May, 1862, the organization
of said companies into a battalion was temporarily effected,
with Dr. Joseph A. McDowell, Major commanding; Edward
M. Clayton, Adjutant; Augustus W. Patton, Quartermaster,
and Robert L. Coleman, Commissary.

The battalion was designated as the Sixth, and was com-

posed of six companies, as follows:

First Company—Hardy’s Light Artillery, made up in
Asheville and near vicinity; Wash M. Hardy, Captain ;
Harry Deaver, First Lieutenant; Pleas. Israel, Second Lieu-
tenant; J. Thomas Weaver, Junior Second Lieutenant.

Srconp Company—MeDowell’s Madison county com-
pany; Joseph A. McDowell, Captain; Belton Ducket, First
Lieutenant; B. F. Patton, Second Lieutenant; W. P. Cook,
Junior Second Lieutenant.

Turrp Company—Reynold’s company, made up in Ashe-
ville and vicinity; F. S. H. Reynolds, Captain; Thomas W.
Patton, First Lieutenant; John Gregg Chambers, Second
Lieutenant; Thomas H. Riddle, Junior Second Lieutenant.

Fourta Company-—MeDowell’s Buncombe company;
Wn. W. McDowell, Captain ; Thomas J. Candler, First Lieu-