SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT,

R. G. A. Love, Colonel.

 

 

SIXTY-SECOND KEQIMENT.

By B. G. McDOWELL, Lirurenant-CoLonet.

The Sixty-second Regiment was composed almost entirely
of Western North Carolinians, officers and men.

The companies composing the same met at Waynesville
July 11, 62, and organized by electing the following:

R..G. A. Love, Colonel, Waynesville, N. C.

G. W. Crayton, Lieutenant-Colonel, Asheville, N. C.

B. G. McDowrx1, Major, Macon county, N. C.

STAFF AND COMPANY OFFICERS.

The staff and company officers were as follows:

R. B. Jounson, Captain and Quartermaster, of Asheville.

Patrick Turasn, Captain and Commissary of Subsist-
ence, Buncombe county.

Dr. H. M. Rogers, Surgeon, Haywood county.

Dr. G. D. S. Atren, Assistant Surgeon, Haywood county.

Lievrenant James H. McAuisrer, Assistant Commis-
sary of Subsistence.

Josrpu E, Haynes, Adjutant, of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The commanding officers of all these companies were, as
elected :

Company A—Haywood County—A. T. Rogers, Captain;
W. H. Leatherwood, First Lieutenant; E. R. Furgerson and
Geo. H. Nelson, Second Lieutenants.

Company B—Clay Cownty—Captain, Benjamin Moore;
C. M. Crawford, First Lieutenant; J. J. McClure and M.
Passmore, Second Lieutenants.

Company C—Haywood County—Captain, John Turpin ;
J. M. Tate, First Lieutenant; Jere Ratcliff and Robert L.
Owen, Second Lieutenants.

Company D—Macon County—Captain, R. M. Henry; M.
L. Kelly, First Lieutenant; L. Enloe and W. P. Norton, Sec-

ond Lieutenants.