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SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

James W Hinton, Colonel.

2. W.H. Bagley, Major.

SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

By J. W. EVANS, Corporat, Company D.

The Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Regiments were raised
for the protection of the State, mustered into its service and
were never turned over to the Confederacy, though as a mat-
ter of fact they were under the orders of Confederate generals
like any other, except that they could not be, and never were,
ordered beyond the State borders, beyond one slight incursion
of this regiment into East Tennessee.

The regiment was organized in July, 1868, with the fol-
lowing Field and Staff officers:

James W. Hiyron, of Pasquotank, Colonel. He had been
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eighth Regiment.

Epwarp C. Yrettowtey, of Pitt, Lieutenant-Colonel, who
had served also in the Eighth Regiment as Major.

Jos. J. Epwarps, of Hertford County, was Major, and on
his resignation April, 1864, William H. Bagley, of Pasquo-
tank, Captain of Company A, of the Eighth Regiment, suc-
ceeded. On the resignation of the latter in June, 1864, Wil-
lis B. Sanderlin, of Camden, Captain Company B, was pro-
moted to Major.

Josrepu W. Hinton, of Pasquotank, Adjutant.

Jno. W. Sxssoms, of Bertie, A. Q. M.

Lewis C. Lawrence, of Hertford County, A. C. 8.

Jno. W. Hurcuines was Surgeon and was succeeded by

Thomas M. Nixon.
Jesse ©, Srannon, Assistant Surgeon, succeeded by J. T.

F. Cummings.

Company A—From Pasquotank—Captains, John T. El-
liott and Thomas H. Tamplin. First Lieutenant, Wm. J.
Munden; Second Lieutenants, Thomas H. Tamplin and An-

drew J. Turner.
Company B—F rom Camden—Captains, Willis B. Sander-

lin and F. M. Halstead; First Lieutenant, F. M. Halstead;
Second Lieutenants, Enoch Stephens and Willis Morrisett.