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ginia, in which he had served from and including the first
battle of Bull Run up to that time. He is, therefore, unable
to give a detailed account of the services of the several com-
panies composing the regiment prior to the time when he
joined the same, which was in February, 1864; soon after
the Pickett expedition against New Bern. The regiment
participated in that expedition, being a part of the troops in-
tended to attack Fort Anderson, opposite New Bern, on the
north side of Neuse river. The conditions under which the
attack was to be made did not occur, and no attack was made.

When the writer joined the regiment he found seven com-
panies encamped at Coward’s bridge, on Contentnea, twelve
miles below Kinston. Company A, from Craven, James H.
Tolson, Captain; Company B, from Craven, Stephen Bar-
rington, Captain; Company C, from Wilson, D. W. Edwards,
Captain; Company E, Charles A. White Captain; Company
F, from Craven, David P. Whitford, Captain; Company G,
Asa W. Jones, Captain; Company I, from Pitt, Edward F.
White, Captain. The other three companies, viz: Company
D, from Craven, Daniel A. Cogdell, Captain; Company H,
from Duplin, Jones and Craven, Christopher D. Foy, Cap-
tain; and Company K (cavalry), from Wayne, Joseph D.
Myers, Captain, were encamped some miles in front, nearer
the enemy’s lines, and engaged in scouting and doing picket
duty in the vicinity of New Bern and Washington. Captain
Foy was a man of 60 years, was six feet and a half high, wore
a long, flowing white beard that reached to his waist and was
unique both in personal appearance and in the. influence
which he wielded over the men of his company. He was
familiarly known in the regiment by the name of ‘“Tecum-
seh.” When the writer first saw him he was marching at the
head of his company of 65 or 70 men, who were following
him, Indian-like, in single file. As the men had had but
little opportunity for company and none at all for battalion
drill, the companies at regimental camp, spent the next few
weeks in these exercises.

About the last of April, 1864, another expedition against
New Bern was undertaken, this time under command of
Major-General R. F. Hoke, who had just won his promotion

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by the brilliant battle and capture of Plymouth, N. ©. In
the expedition the Sixty-seventh headed the column. Noth-
ing of importance happened until we reached Deep Gully,
eight miles from New Bern. Here we came on a strong out-
post of the enemy which made some resistance, but was
quickly driven in by the Sixty-seventh, which remained in
this vicinity for the next two days, while General Hoke pro-
ceeded with the balance of the troops, down the Trent, on the
south side, to the vicinity of New Bern. Before the capture
of New Bern, which was almost a certainty, was accomplished
General Hoke, to his great disappointment, received orders to
hasten back to Virginia with his command. He arrived in
Petersburg just in time to save that city from capture.

The regiment returned to its former position and continued
in the same service as before for a short time, but was soon
removed to the vicinity of Kinston, where it remained, doing
outpost duty until October, when it was ordered to Washing-
ton and Plymouth, N. ©., to relieve the troops stationed at
those points.

Occasionally we had to repel incursions made by the en-
emy, outside of his lines and sometimes we made incursions
into the territory occupied by him. In one of these raids a
squad of men, about fifty strong, led by Major Whitford,
proceeded down Neuse river on the north side to a point
several miles below New Bern, crossed the river in boats at
night and made its way to the Atlantic & North Carolina
Railroad at a point between New Bern and Beaufort, where it
arrived about daylight on Monday morning. The object of
the raid was to capture General Palmer, the officer then in
command at New Bern. It was understood by us that he
was in the habit of spending Sunday at Beaufort, returning
to New Bern Monday morning. While arranging to capture
the train, our force were discovered by some colored people
who notified the Yankee troops at a fort a mile away. The
party finding that their presence had been discovered and
being many miles inside the enemy’s lines, considered it im-
prudent to await the arrival of the train. It, however, passed

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