516 Norra Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

Company E—Haywood County—Captain, R. A. Edmond-
son and J. Ramsay Dills; W. H. Bryson, First Lieutenant;
R. M. Wilson and M. L. Allison, Second Lieutenants.

Company F—Rutherford County—Captain, A. B. Cowan ;
Jas. M. Taylor, First Lieutenant; Jno. Jones and D. D. Wal-
ker, Second Lieutenants.

Company G—Jackson County—Captain, A. D. Hooper;
D. F. Brown, First Lieutenant; B. N. Queen and P. M. Par-
ker, Second Lieutenants.

Company H—Henderson County—Captain, W. G. B.
Morris; J. M. Owen, First Lieutenant; G. W. Whitmore and
I. F. Galloway, Second Lieutenants. ae

Company I—Haywood County—Captain, William J.
Wilson; I. P. Long, First Lieutenant; J. A. Burnett and P.
G. Murray, Second Lieutenants. :

Company K—Transylvania County—Captain, L. C. Neil;
S. C. Beck, First Lieutenant; Jas. M. Gash and V. C. Ham-
ilton, Second Lieutenants.

The Field Officers were happily chosen. Colonel Love was
a leading and influential citizen of Haywood county, a
man of first-class ability and often held places of trust,
honor and profit, as the gift of his people, until his
health gave way under disease, which resulted in his
death after the war. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Six-
teenth North Carolina Regiment in the Army of Northern
Virginia, and was transferred by promotion to the Sixty-
second.

Lieutenant-Colonel Clayton was of Buncombe county,
North Carolina, and a resident of the city of Asheville, a
graduate of West Point, of a most excellent family, an ele-
gant gentleman, a magnificent disciplinarian, and was loved
by every member of his regiment! Colonel Clayton died re-
cently greatly lamented by a large circle of friends and rel-
atives and mourned by his comrades in arms who shared with
him the privations and hardships of a soldier’s life.

While stationed at Cumberland Gap, a point which figured
conspicuously in the late war between the States, Colonel

Clayton fell a victim to typhoid fever. He was removed to

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a hospital at Greenville, Tennessee. Very soon after he
left, the siege of Cumberland was on, and he could not return
to his command at the Gap. Colonel Love was off on sick
leave at the time, so the command of the regiment was left in
the hands of the Major of the regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel
Clayton was not, therefore, able to return to his regiment
until after the surrender of Cumberland Gap (9 September,
1863), when that portion of the regiment which escaped from
the Gap was assembled at Pigeon river, in Haywood county,
to be again prepared to enter into active service.

Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel, B. G. McDowell, was a
native of Macon county, N. ©. Early in 1861, he enlisted
iu the 39th North Carolina under Colonel David Coleman
and was transferred to the 62nd by promotion to Major of
the Regiment 11 July, 1862.

All three of these officers were descendants of revolutionary
soldiers, and appropriately commanded men, most of whom
were also lineal descendants of «the heroes of 1776 and as
brave and patriotic as their ancestors.

Want of space precludes the possibility of the mention
of even the names of this heroic band which are given, with
sume omissions and inaccuracies in Moore’s Roster, Vol. 3,
p- 716, et seq. Their descendants should remember and be
proud of the membership of their parents in such a command.

EAST TENNESSEE.

Soon after the organization the regiment started for
Haynesville (now called Johnson’s City), in Washington
county, Tennessee, arriving there about 1 August, 1862,
when it was placed under rigid drill and prepared for active
service. A braver or more courageous body of men did not
belong to the Confederate army. They left their homes, a
majority of them leaving families dependent upon them,
and offered their lives a sacrifice upon the field of battle for
a cause they thought to be right. The rank and file of this
regiment were of the very best citizens of Western North
Carolina. A finer or braver set of men, taken all together,
I have never seen. This regiment when it went into camp