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son was elected Colonel, W. F. Beasley Lieutenant-Colonel,
and N. A. Gregory Major. W. G. Hunter, of Salisbury, was
appointed Adjutant; J. P. Jordan, Assistant Surgeon ; Chas.
R. Ramseur, of Lincoln, Sergeant-Major; C. F. Bisaner, of
Lineolnton, Commissary Sergeant; J. W. Worth, Quarter-
master Sergeant.

The companies as finally reorganized and relettered, were
as follows (including all the officers from the beginning) :

Company A—Wayne and Duplin—Captains, Albert R.
Hicks, of Duplin, David E. McKinne, of Wayne; First Lieu-
tenant, James Walter Draughan, of Sampson; Second Lieu-
tenants, David E. McKinne and Buckner H. Smith, of
Wayne, and Hugh F. Murray, of Pitt.

Company B—Rowan—Captain, W. H. Overman; First
Lieutenant, Nevin D. Fetzer; Second Lieutenants, J. J.
Trotter and Turner P. Trotter, all of Rowan.

Company C—Lincoln and Gaston—Captain, J. Q. Hol-
land, of Gaston; First Lieutenant, J. A. Beale, of Bertie;
Second Lieutenants, L. M. Hoffman of Gaston, C. F. Bisaner
of Lincoln, G. F. Lucas and J. N. Hopper.

Company D—Cleveland and Rutherford—Captain, J. K.
Wells, of Cleveland ; First Lieutenant, H. G. Logan, of Ruth-
erford; Second Lieutenants, J. G. Falls, Jr., of Cleveland,
H. H. Weatherman and R. J. Durham.

Company E—Cabarrus—Captains, S. Spears and G. F. C.
Corl, of Cabarrus; First Lieutenants, W. G. Hunter of
Rowan, Thos. J. Shinn of Cabarrus; Second Lieutenants,
Frank Winecoff, John O. Wallace and B. F. Rogers of Ca-
barrus, and W. R. Hines of Edgeemobe.

Company F—Union—Captain T. C. Rowland ; First Lieu-
tenant, B. H. Benton; Second Lieutenants, S. R. Robinson
and H. E. Nelson.

Company G—Greene and Lenoir—Captain, Jesse W.
Grainger, of Lenoir; First Lieutenant, Samuel Laughing-
house of Pitt; Second Lieutenants, J. Ed. Clarke of Pitt,
Jno. F. Humphrey of Wayne, Charles S. Smith of Halifax.

Company H—Pitt, Johnston and Wilson—Captains,
McD. Boyd and Joseph J. Laughinghouse; First Lieutenants,

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J. J. Laughinghouse, Benj. Sheppard; Second Lieutenants,
R. B. Anderson, —. —. Smith, all of Pitt, and Robert M.
Furman, of Franklin.

Company I—Beaufort, Hyde and Tyrrell—Captain Wil-
liam §. Flynn, of Beaufort (previously in United States
Army); First Lieutenant, Samuel Selby, of Hyde; Second
Lieutenants, John W. Wilkinson and John Adams.

Jompany K—Halifax—Captain, W. R. Williams; First
Lieutenant, David C. Whitaker; Second Lieutenants, W. K.
Martin, Jr., and W. T. Purnell, all of Halifax.

This last company had done provost duty at Weldon from
its organization in May, 1864. Captain Williams had been
Captain Company F, Forty-third Regiment, and had resigned
on account of wounds. It had been attached to the Seven-
tieth North Carolina as Company K, 4 July, when it was
first organized, but subsequently Captain Jno. A. Manning’s
company was substituted.

BELFIELD, VA.

On 8 December, the regiment, together with six companies
of the Seventieth Regiment (First Juniors), hastily ordered
from Hamilton, and the Seventh Battalion (French’s),
Eighth Battalion (Ellington’s), and Ninth (Millard’s) bat-
talion, all of Junior Reserves, ordered from Wilmington,
were sent to Belfield, Va., to meet the advance of Warren’s
Corps. The Junior Battalions from Wilmington were un-
der the command of Colonel George Jackson. They were
there under the enemy’s fire for the first time and followed
the enemy several miles on his retreat. The weather was
intensely cold and the boys, poorly clad and badly fed, suffer-
ed terribly from exposure, though only a few were killed or
wounded in the fight. For their conduct in this expedition,
the Legislature of North Carolina passed a special vote of
thanks to the Junior Reserves.

COLERAINE EXPEDITION.

In January, the regiment was joined by Millard’s Battal-
ion and sent to Coleraine, on the Chowan, to meet an expected
advance of the enemy. The command forded rivers,