40 Nortu Caroiina Troops, 1861-’65. into an impregnable intrenched camp, containing perhaps one hundred acres. On 9 December, 1864, the battalion went from Sugar Loaf to Belfield, Virginia, in company with the Seventh and Eighth Battalions. Its future movements will be described in connection with the other two batteries. THE SEVENTH BATTALION. The Seventh Battalion, 300 strong, was organized at Camp Lamb, near Wilmington, in June, 1864, by the election of W. F. French, of Lumberton, Major, and E. F. McDaniel, of Fayetteville, was appointed Adjutant. This battalion was composed of the following companies: Company A—From Cumberland, Robeson and Harnett Counties—T. L. Hybart, Captain; D. 8. Byrd, First Lieuten- ant; ©. ©. McLellan and C. S. Love, Jr., Second Lieuten- ants. Upon the death of Captain Hybert, on 9 September, D. S. Byrd was promoted to the Captaincy. Company B—F rom New Hanover, Brunswick and Colum- bus Counties—John D. Kerr, Captain; J. B. Williams, First Lieutenant; E. H. Moore and B. F. Gore, Second Lieuten- ants. Company C—From Richmond County—Donald Mc- Queen, Captain; A. B. McCollum, First Lieutenant; A. C. McFadyen and S. A. Barfield, Second Lieutenants. The battalion did guard duty at Wilmington until the mid- dle of July. Here Captain Donald McQueen died of typhoid fever on 25 June. He was a fine soldier, an honor to his name and to his cause. Lieutenant McCollum succeeded him in command of the company. On the night of 3 July, 1864, Lieutenant Cushing, of the Federal Navy (the same who blew up the Confederate ram “Albemarle” at Plymouth), with a few detailed men, entered the Confederate headquarters at Smithville (now Southport) and carried off General Paul O. Hebert’s Adjutant-General to the Federal fleet. Thereupon the Seventh Battalion was ordered from Wilmington to Smithville for its protection. SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 41 It camped in a beautiful grove of live oaks back of the town. Here it did its full share of guard and picket duty under the command of General Hebert, an old officer who had served with distinction in Mexico and had been Governor of Louis- jana. It was here that Captain T. L. Hybart, of Fayetteville, was stricken with typhoid fever and died 9 September, 1864. He was one of the best officers in the command, and had: he lived and the war continued, would have made his mark. The battalion remained at Smithville until 9 December when, with the Fourth and Eighth Battalions, all under Colonel Jackson, it moved to Belfield, Virginia, to repel a Federal raid. THE EIGHTIU BATTALION. The Eighth Battalion, 300 hundred strong, was organized at Camp Vance, near Morganton, N. C., on 7 June, by the election of James B. Ellington (First Lieutenant in Com- pany D, Sixty-first North Carolina Regiment), as Major. It was composed of the following companies: Company A—F rom Iredell County—W. G. Watson, Cap- tain; George Rufus White, First Lieutenant; Amos M. Guy and Sinclair Preston Steele, Second Lieutenants. Japtain Watson resigned in January, 1865, for the pur- pose of joining a cavalry regiment in Lee’s army. He re- turned home to procure his outfit for the service, but was captured by Stoneman and sent to prison in Louisville, Ky. He is now the excellent and popular clerk of the Superior Court of Rowan County. Upon his resignation, Lieutenant White was promoted to the Captaincy. Sompany B—lrom Catawba—J. R. Gaither, Captain; J. M. Lawrence, First Lieutenant (both captured at Fort Fisher) ; Charles Wilfong and J. M. Bandy, Second Lieu- tenants. Lieutenant Wilfong resigned after the battle of Kinston, and Lieutenant Bandy thereafter until the surrender, com- manded the company. He made a fine officer. After the war he was for a number of years a professor in Trinity Col- lege. He now resides in Greensboro, where as a civil] engineer he ranks high in his profession. Sergeant James M. Barkley