66 Norru Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

rolls, after the fall of Richmond, and are now in the Bureau of
Pensions and Records at Washington, but to an application by
the writer, backed by an official request of Governor Aycock,
General F. C. Ainsworth, in charge of the bureau, gave only
the list of the field officers of the eight regiments of reserves
(which we already had in General Holmes’ Order Book), and
stated that owing to the precarious condition of the rolls writ-
ten on Confederate-made paper, he could not give-a list of the
company officers or men without an act of Congress. We
know by incidental mention in General Holmes’ letter book
that Captains Turner and Surratt commanded two of the com-
panies.

The Fourth Regiment of Reserves (Seventy-third North
Carolina) were as already stated, Senior Reserves, 7. e., men
between the ages of 45 and 50. The names of the company
officers can only be had from the rolls at Washington, which
are now not accessible. The regiment was organized in
July, 1864, at Salisbury, by the election of—

Joun F. Hoxs, Colonel.
Leroy W. Srowsn, Lieutenant-Colonel.
Jno. N. Prior, Major.

All three of these had seen previous service. Colonel Jno.
¥. Hoke in the beginning of the war was Adjutant-General
of North Carolina, and later for a time, Colonel of the Twen-
ty-third Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Stowe and Major
Prior had both served in Virginia, and been wounded, in con-
sequence of which the former (who was Captain in the Six-
teenth North Carolina) had resigned, and the latter assigned
to light duty was Lieutenant and Enrolling Officer when
elected Major of this regiment. R. P. Waring, of Meck-
lenburg, who had served as Captain Company B, Forty-
third North Carolina, was appointed Adjutant, and J. M.
Williams Surgeon, and Daniel W. Perry Assistant Surgeon.
John F. Hill was captain of one of the companies. A portion
of the regiment was assigned to the important duty of guard-
ing the bridges on the lines of railways upon which depended
the sustenance and recruiting of our armies and the remaining
companies were sent to Salisbury to guard the thousands of

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prisoners there confined, thus relieving other troops for the
field.

The regiment was ordered to Raleigh 21 August for service
at Wilmington, but was stopped at Greensboro and soon after
it was sent to Salisbury where it performed the duties above
mentioned till 4 March, 1865, when not being longer needed
to guard prisoners, it was placed in the Eighth Congressional
District to arrest deserters with regimental headquarters at
Salisbury.

A brigade was formed in November, 1864, of the Fourth
Fifth and Sixth Regiments of Reserves (Seventy-third Sev-
enty-fourth and Seventy-sixth North Carolina) all of Which
were on the same service, guarding prisoners at Salisbury
bridges on railroads and arresting deserters. This brigade
was placed under command of Colonel Jno. F. Hoke with
headquarters at Salisbury. The services performed were
useful and indispensable and relieved other troops for ser-
vice in the field. On some occasions there were fights with
deserters who were armed and when banded koodiivas made
themselves a terror to certain neighborhoods. The only time
these three regiments seemed to have come in contact with the
enemy was when Stoneman made his raid to Salisbury to re-
lease the prisoners at that point. es

Upon Johnston’s surrender, some few of the regiment were

paroled, but the majority doubtless went home without cere-
mony.