52 Norru Carorina Troops, 1861-’65. ay Gri Sibu Rac enie: ta ~~ Q—_From Burke and Caldwell Counties—Cap- mained there only a day or two, the enemy having with- — ne 2 , ie o> / drawn. It returned to Goldsboro where it remained drilling tain, L. A. Bristoe. tt and doing guard duty until the last of J Tt was th cont sata 1s land, Robeson and Harne g gu uty until the last of January. was then COMPANY H oe ag — wee ordered to Kinston and camped near the beautiful home of a Rick , ae d County—Captain, A. B. Colonel John C. Washington. It was here employed in con- te ae structing the breastworks and fortifications for the defence McCollum. . Company K-—From Rockingham County—Lieutenant F. _ M. Hanlin. Colonel Hinsdale, upon receiving notice in the city of pos eigh of his election, at once signified his acceptance, bse was questioned by General Holmes whether he was e a under the orders of the War Department, by reason of the fact that he was not a disabled officer. The matter was aed ferred to the authorities in Richmond and after nagenines ble delay the department decided in Colonel Hinsdale 8 nee and he was assigned to the command of the regiment ie : February, 1865, by the following all too partial general or der: “Hreapguarters Reserves Norrn Carorina, Raxetien, N. C., 14 February, 1865. rene rders No. 4. Ze - S. Sirinefellow, Assistant Adjutant-General rats A., will relieve Captain John W. Hinsdale, cane ant-Adjutant-General of Reserves of N orth Carolina, the latter officer will proceed to join the Third Regiment - serves of North Carolina as its Colonel, he having been duly elected to that office on 3 January, 1865. — : “The Lieutenant-General commanding in taking leave 0 Colonel Hinsdale, tenders his warm congratulations on ne promotion and earnestly hopes that the intelligence, zeal an gallantry, which has characterized his services as a staff “mee may be matured by experience into greater usefulness in hi new and more extended sphere. “Turo. H. Hormss, + ? “Lieutenant-General Commanding. While at Camp McLean, near Goldsboro, the regiment was ordered to Halifax to repel another Federal raid. It re of the town and especially of the county bridge across the Neuse river. Kinston was in easy reach from New Bern and had been visited by many Federal raiding parties from time to time. Our boys were heartily weleomed by the good people of that town. The rations: which were issued to officers and men while here and at Goldsboro were very scant. They con- sisted of half a pint of black sorghum syrup, a pint of husky meal every other day, a third of a pound of pork or Nassau bacon and a few potatoes occasionally. The old soldiers will all remember Nassau bacon, a very gross, fat, porky substance which ran the blockade at Wilmington and was distributed among Lee’s veterans as bacon. When a ration of cornfield peas was issued the boys were in high jinks indeed. But never was there collected together more uncomplaining men. They recognized the fact that the Confederacy was doing for them its best. BATTLE OF SOUTH WEST CREEK. Upon the discovery of the advance of the enemy from New Bern, whence they set out early in March, General Hoke’s Division was ordered to Kinston. On 6 March, the Junior Reserve Brigade, consisting of the First Regiment under Lieutenant-Colonel Charles W. Broadfoot; the Second under Colonel John H. Anderson, and the Third under Colonel Hinsdale, and Millard’s Battalion under Captain C. M. Hall, all under Colonel F. S. Armistead, marched through Kinston and across, to the south side of Neuse river, which here runs in an easterly direction past the breastworks which they had 80 laboriously constructed. They marched down the river road which leads out in a southeasterly direction to Southwest ereek. This creek is a sluggish, unfordable stream, which runs in a northerly direction and empties into the river about