10 Nortu CaRro.ina Troops, 1861-’65.

but were armed with Enfield rifles, which had been changed
to percussion from flint and steel, and which were well nigh
worthless. Later on better guns which had been captured in
Virginia, were issued to the Juniors.

On 29 May the battalion was ordered to Weldon, where it
went into camp on the Northampton side of the river, on the
ground formerly occupied by the F ifty-sixth Regiment, near
the residence of Mr. John M. Moody, who with his entire
family was as kind and considerate of the soldier boys as it
was possible to be. The camp was styled “Camp Daniel” in
honor of Brigadier-General Junius Daniel, then recently

killed in battle and who was born a few miles distant in Hal-
ifax County.

THE SIXTH BATTALION.

The Sixth Battalion consisted of five companies. Com-
pany A, Captain A. M. Heitman, 89 officers and men ; Com-
pany B, Captain C. D. Dowd, 80 officers and men ; Company
C, Captain W. 8. Lineberry, 78 officers and men; Company
D, Captain W. H. Carter, 76 officers and men; Company E,

Captain Thos. L. Lea, 82 officers and men. Total when or-
ganized, including field and staff, 408 officers and men.
This battalion was organized at Camp Holmes near Ral-
eigh, 3 June, 1864, by electing Walter Clark, Major. Major
Clark, a cadet at Tew’s Military School, had in May, 1861,
entered the service as drill-master and later went to Virginia
with Pettigrew’s regiment, Twenty-second North Carolina;
in 1862-63 he had served as Adjutant of the Thirty-fifth
North Carolina (Colonel M. W. Ransom). On the return
to this State of that brigade in 1863, he resigned and entering
the senior class at the State University, graduated 2 J une,
the day before his election as Major. His battalion was
equipped much as the First had been and was ordered to
Goldsboro, 8 June. After a few days stay it was ordered to
Weldon 18 June and went into camp 19 June, near the First
Battalion, in a camp styled “Camp Ransom,” in honor of
General M. W. Ransom, whose residence was close by and on

whose staff (when Colonel Ransom) the Major commanding
had served.

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The post at Weldon was commanded by Colonel James W.
Hinton, of the Sixty-eighth North Carolina, and the district
was under the command of General L. S. Baker, with head-
quarters at Goldsboro. Pickets were kept out by the two bat-
talions to guard against surprise by raiding parties, or a sud-
den advance of the enemy from the Chowan. The com-
mand was rigidly and constantly drilled and with the facility
of boys soon acquired military discipline and efficiency. On
27 June the Sixth Battalion was ordered to Gaston and took
post on the east side of the river to protect the railroad bridge
at that point from a threatened cavalry raid, but returned to

Weldon 1 July.

ORGANIZED INTO A REGIMENT.

On 4 July, 1864, the First and Sixth Battalions were, in
pursuance of General Orders, organized into a regiment. On
15 June, Captain M. C. Nixon’s company had been assigned
to the First Battalion. The Halifax County company of
Captain W. R. Williams, was now added to the two battal-
ions, making ten companies whose officers on that day elected ”

Cuartrs W. Broaproort, Colonel.
Watrer Crarx, Lieutenant-Colonel.

_N. A. Grecory, Major.

The election was conducted by Lieutenant Graham Daves,
Aide to General Holmes. Upon his report of the election,
orders were issued assigning above officers to duty accordingly.
Major Gregory had seen service as First Lieutenant of Com-
pany I, Twenty-third North Carolina Regiment, but having
been wounded and disabled at Chancellorsville, had resigned.
He now patriotically acepted his election and re-entered the
service.

During July, the headquarters of Lieutenant-General
Holmes were removed to Weldon. Not long after his arri-
val, he sent for the above field officers of the First Regiment
and explained to them his earnest wish that his chief of staff,
Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Armistead, might be made Colonel
of the First Regiment, as thereby he felt confident that he
would without delay be appointed Brigadier-General of the