100 Norru Carottna Troops, 1861-65.

lock and Frederick Smith. This company was organized 13

June, 1864. Bees

Company D—Person—Captain, R. 8S. Davis; First Lieu-
tenant, T. H. Brooks; Second Lieutenants, Chesley Hicks
and Alfred Blalock. This company was organized 21 June.

Company E—Stokes—Captain, W. H. Watts; First Lieu-
tenant, W. G. Haynes; Second Lieutenants, Dempsey Bailey
aud Matthew Phillips. This company was organized 28
June, 1864.

Company F—Caswell—Captain, A. A. Mitchell; First
Lieutenant, J. S. Glass; Second Lieutenants, A. M. Fuller
and J. J. Chandler. This company was organized 23 June,
1864.

Company G—Forsyth-—Captain, E. E. Nolland; First
Lieutenant, Jno. H. Shore: Second Lieutenants, David
Shouse and Solomon Tice.

Company H—Stokes—Captain, William Clinard; First
Lieutenant, N. S. McGee; Second Lieutenants, P. B. Cook
and Israel Moser.

The muster rolls of the other two companies are not
given in Moore’s Roster.

This regiment was ordered to Raleigh 27 October, 1864,
and on 1 November General Holmes telegraphed General
Bragg at Wilmington that he had sent him this regiment to-
gether with Erwin’s Battalion (Seniors) ; three companies of
Millard’s Battalion (Juniors) and thirteen other companies
of Seniors, and that there were no others except those guard-
ing prisoners at Salisbury. The thirteen companies of Sen-
iors were probably the ten soon after organized into the
Eighth Reserves and the three companies that formed Little-
john’s Battalion. On 10 November it was reported at Wil-
mington with nine other companies of Seniors, 89 Off. Rec.

Union and Confed. Armies, 1207, at Masonboro Sound. On
28 November the regiment elected

Cuas. E. Suosmr, Colonel.

Ezexter. W. Hancock, Lientenant-Colonel, who was pro-
moted Colonel 26 January, 1865, upon the resignation of Col-
onel Shober.

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SEVENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. 101

James R. McLean, Major.

It was soon sent south and as appears from the above Of-
ficial Records it left Charleston for Savannah 7 December and
on 9 December was in the battle of Coosawhatchie under the
command of General Beverly H. Robinson, 92 Off. Rec.
Umion and Confed. Armies, 446, and on 26 December it was
in the skirmish at Tullifinny Iron Works, 130 of the regi-
ment being present. Another detachment of 263 were in
Harrison’s Brigade at Coosawhatchie, same Vol. pp. 992,
999. From January to March, 1865, inclusive, it was in a
brigade commanded by Colonel Wash. M. Hardy, of the Six-
teenth North Carolina, composed of this regiment, the
Fiftieth North Carolina and Tenth North Carolina Battal-
ion, which brigade belonged to McLaw’s Division.

So far this sketch has been taken from General Holmes’
Order Books and the above Official Records published by the
United States Government. What follows is the above cited
sketch of Lieutenant Albright, of Company A. It probably
gives a fair idea of the scope of duties imposed upon the Sen-
ior Reserves. To read it causes us to regret that the histories
of the other regiments of Senior Reserves were not obtained
from members of those commands, while it was possible to
do so. Lieutenant Albright’s interesting sketch is as fol-
lows:

LIEUTENANT ALBRIGHT’S HISTORY.

The Senior Reserves of Alamance County, having been
conscripted, met in Graham in June, 1864, and elected the
following officers: W.S. Bradshaw, Captain; John G. Al-
bright, First Lieutenant; Alfred Sharp, Second Lieutenant ;
James Gilliam, Junior Second Lieutenant. These officers
were never commissioned, but were ordered into the service.
Fifteen men were selected out of the company and were sent
to Greensboro as a guard at that place. In a short time the
remainder were ordered into the southern part of the county to
catch deserters from the army. A detachment under the
First Lieutenant was sent to scour the Cane Creek Mountains,
where they caught a deserter and found five caves, dug for
the purpose of hiding provisions, ete., in which was found one
quilt, one large jug, tin cups, ete., which had just been de-