732 NortH Carotina Troops, 1861-’65. N orth Carolina, and at request of Colonel Thomas, he and his entire company was transferred to the Legion. Colonel Love was a graduate of Emory and Henry College, studied law and was a member of the North Carolina Legis- lature, also after the war a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention (1863), and later of the State Senate; also a member of the Tennessee Senate, after his marriage and removal to that State, where he subsequently raised a family; died twelve or fifteen years since, honored and respected by all. William W. Stringfield, the writer of this sketch, was a native of Nashville, Tenn., and raised near Knoxville, Tenn. He was of old North Carolina stock, being a grandson of Jos. Williams, of Yadkin county. He was a private of the First Tennessee Cavalry, 1861. Captain of Company E, Thirty- first Tennessee Infantry, 1862, and Assistant Provost Mar- shal at Knoxville, 1862; elected Major of the Sixty-ninth — 27 September, 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel, J anuary, After the war, married and located near Waynesville, N. C.—member of the North Carolina Legislature in 1882 and 1883, and of the State Senate in 1901. In 1895 was elected commander of the Confederate Veterans of Western North Carolina, and as a member of Military and Veteran Commit- tee, feels and takes great pride and interest in all that per- tains to the fame, fortune, welfare and success of all his old comrades, their widows and children. Captain Elisha G. Johnson, of Company C., was promoted to Major of the regiment after its return from the Valley campaign in November, 1864. Major Johnson was an in- telligent gentleman and a singularly brave soldier. He moved to Florida soon after the war, was elected to the State Senate, and finally was murdered at his own home in 1875 or 1876. Captain James W. Terrell was Captain of Company A, succeeding William H. Thomas and preceding M. H. Love. He was Chief Quartermaster of the regiment and faithful. He had the confidence of his neighbors, and has represented Srxty-Ninto REGIMENT. 733 them (Jackson county) in the Legislature. He now resides in Webster, N. C. Dr. Lawing was a good doctor and a kind man. Nothing known of him since the war. Dr. John Love was a kind man and good doctor. Died soon after the war from its expo- sures. A. R. Carmack, Sergeant-Major, a Pennsylvanian by birth, was the son-in-law of a strong Union man in East Tennessee. He was a man among men, cool, clear-headed and brave; was wounded and captured at Cedar creek; lived in Kansas since driven from East Tennessee in 1866-67, and died recently, 18 December, 1900, in Texas, beloved by all. Lucius M. Welch, Assistant Commissary, is a native son of Haywood county. He was quite young in those days, but made a faithful Commissary. He now lives near Waynes- ville. The Adjutant of the regiment, Captain L. M. May, was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., a Vir- ginian by birth and an elegant gentleman. Aside from this the entire command was composed of citi- zen soldiery—eduecated for peace, but not afraid of war. After the organization and equipment of the regiment the companies were scattered throughout upper East Tennessee, between Knoxville and Bristol. The battalion of our legion whose story will hereafter be told, was sent below Knoxville, toward Chattanooga, and Cleveland, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga., was raised to a regiment (Kightieth North Carolina) and becoming a part of Bragg’s army was never reunited to the old Legion. ENFORCING CONSCRIPTION. About this time the enforcement of the conscript law was begun in earnest, and consequently it was a serious time in the short life of the Southern Confederacy—and thinking men were fully alive to the hereulean task before us. Last Tennessee was placed under martial law and many of the most prominent citizens were in rebellion against the South. The celebrated Parson Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig, a widely circulated paper, who was afterwards elected