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church. Colonel Hinton, however, who was at the Sherrod
house, unknowing of these movements, was captured, as was
his brother, Joseph W. Hinton, our Adjutant. But Adju-
tant Hinton made his escape after the break of day. The
enemy at daylight fell back to Spring Green on the road to
Williamston our forces following and driving them further.

BATTLE OF SOUTH WEST CREEK.

Then only a short time had elapsed when the regiment was
ordered to a point just below Kinston, N. C., to reinforce
General Hoke’s command at a place known as Cobb’s Mill,
and here a heavy battle, the battle of South West Creek or
Wise’s Forks, 8 and 9 March, 1865, was fought. Our regi-
ment was in the division of General Hoke and several of the
regiment were killed and wounded. After this event the reg-
iment was moved to a bridge across the Neuse river a short
distance beyond Goldsboro, N. C., and there remained till the
Federal forces had advanced from Kinston and stopped on
the opposite side of the river for a night and day. At this
place there was a little skirmish engagement. The bridge
was burned and two or three of the regiment were wounded.
Then a movement was made eastward, making no permanent
stop at any place during which time orders were given to the
ofticers of the several companies to return with their men to
the respective communities in which they were mustered, seize
and take from any neighbor a horse, where he had more than
one, for the purpose of mounting each member of their com-
panies and re-enlisting them into cavalry service. But while
these orders were being carried into effect the information
came that the chief commander of the army, General R. E.
Lee, had surrendered. And thus each member of the several
companies being at home, remained, with all the parapherna-
lia of a soldier without being discharged or mustered out of
service in accordance with military rule; and so in the month
of April, 1865, the career of the Sixty-eighth Regiment,
North Carolina State Troops, came to an end.

TWO ADDITIONAL COMPANIES.

The writer deems it proper since the Roster of the North

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Carolina Troops fails to give the names of the privates and
non-commissioned officers of the several companies of the
Sixty-eighth Regiment, to mention the names of a portion of
two companies, ‘as remembered by Mr. B. T. Daniel, a na-
tive of Roanoke Island, who is still living. He says that two
other companies besides those above named were enlisted in
the counties of Beaufort and Hyde, and belonged to the Sixty-
eighth Regiment, and were supplied with guns, ammunition
and all of a soldier’s equipment, and that they were kept in
these counties to watch the movements of the enemy, and that
Laban Bridgeman was their Acting Quartermaster, through
whom their military supplies were furnished and that they
signed the quarterly pay rolls and same was forwarded to
headquarters by Quartermaster Bridgeman, and also says
that if the companies were designated by letters, that he don’t
remember them.

The names given and the county in which they resided at
the time of enlistment are as follows:

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

E. S. Swindell, Captain, and William N. Spencer, Cap-
tain, both of Hyde County; William Windley, First Lieuten-
ant, Beaufort county; Benjamin Boomer, Second Lieuten-
ant, Hyde county; Dave Credle, Junior Second Liedtenant,
Hyde county.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Elisha Credle, Sergeant, Beaufort county; Joseph Baum,
Sergeant, Hyde county; Samuel Jones, Corporal, Hyde
county ; Josephus Flinn, Corporal, Beaufort county.

Privates.—Jas. Pledger, Saunders Smith, William Wil-
liams, William Davis, John Swindell, Willis Williams, Na-
thaniel Gibbs, Frank O’Neal, Morgan O’Neal, David Johnson,
David Gibbs, Stanley O’ Neal, Richard Daniels, JesseW. Dan-
fels, Frank Bell, George Boyd, of Hyde county; John Whit-
ney, of Beaufort county; John Bell, Alvin Swindell, Asa
Voliver, James Sadler, Joseph Spencer, Alexander Gibbs,
Thomas Watson, Hyde county; B. T. Daniel, Amos R. Ether-
idge, Daniel B. Austin, John W. Meekins, Samuel D. Hooker,