SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
B. T. Morris, Captain, Co. E.

 

 

SIXTY-FOURTH ‘KEGIMENT.

By B. T. MORRIS, Caprarn, Company A.

In presenting to the public the Sixty-fourth North Caro-
lina Regiment, we are forced to admit that, in all probability,
there is not another regiment in the Confederate service with
just such a history, owing to the fact that it was never in a
pitched battle as a regiment and was so soon taken prisoners.

On 20 July, 1862, Lawrence M. Allen was commissioned
as Colonel to raise, as was first anticipated, a Legion, and at
one time had thirteen companies of infantry and some com-
panies of cavalry. But for some cause, his command was
cut down to a regiment of ten companies and numbered the
Sixty-fourth North Carolina Regiment.

Six companies were raised principally in Madison county,
one in Henderson, one in Polk and two in Tennessee.

The ten companies, including the commissioned officers,
numbering in all 1,110, probably presented one of the finest
looking regiments in the Confederate army. Having been
raised in the mountains of Western North Carolina and East
Tennessee, they were strong and sturdy, full of courage and
ready to do and do valiantly for their country.

FIELD AND STAFF.

When the regiment was first organized the officers were:

L. M. Atxen, Colonel, Marshall, N. C.
J. A. Kerru, Lieutenant-Colonel, Marshall, N. C.

W. N. Garrett, Major, Hot Springs, N. C.

Colonel Allen was not at the surrender at Cumberland Gap,
having resigned and the other field officers having been pro-
moted, Thos. P. Jones, of Company B, became Major. The
commissioned officers who served in the different companies,
so far as we know, were as follows: