128 Norra Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

was captured at Somerset, Ky., ine The fate or subse-
areer of many others is unknown.

| Gin Dhoriey is also living in North Georgia. om
the capture of Lieutenant-Colonel McK amy, Winchester, Va.,
19 September, 1864, Major Stephen Whitaker, of Cherokee
County, assumed command of the regiment and was pated
faithful to his trust. He was the last field officer of the “Le
gion” to lay down his arms, and in this he had a rather pon. i
and remarkable experience. When Lieutenant-Colonel W.
W. Stringfield was sent with a flag of truce to Knoxville to
General Stoneman, the notorious Colonel Kirk violated a
truce made at Asheville and moved rapidly west, to Franklin,
Macon County, there he actually treated the people kindly
and gave most of them their horses.

Major Whitaker, hearing of the surrender of Lee and John-
ston in April, and of Colonels Thomas and James R. Love at
Waynesville on 9 and 10 May, went to Franklin and surren-
dered himself and son on the 14th. His men—like those of
Colonel Thomas—were allowed to keep their guns, in self de-
fense. Thus closed the service of some as good men as ever
fought for the South. Much more should be said concerning
numbers of officers and private soldiers, but the information
cannot be gotten. Captain T. D. Johnston, Quartermaster,
is an invalid now living at Asheville. He has twice repre
sented us in Congress. P. ©. Gaston, Adjutant, lived and
died in Macon County—a highly respected citizen. Dr. B.
Mayfield recently died at Murphy, N. C., a loved and respect-
ed physician. Dr. Walker, Sergeant-Major, is a highly re-
spected citizen of Cherokee County.

In the preparation of this sketch I am greatly indebted to
Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Stringfield, of the Sixty-ninth
North Carolina, a most gallant and efficient officer of our Le-
gion, whose memory will always be dear to them as long as
a member of the command survives.

R. A. AIKEN.
Morpny, N. C.,

30 May, 1901.

EIGHTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

(FIRST REGIMENT OF DETAILED MEN.)

By THE EDITOR.

At this late date it is diffieult to get data as to this regi-
ment. Its history is substantially that related of the Eighty-
second Regiment.

In November, 1864, the Confederate authorities directed
that the detailed men in this State should be at once organized
into regiments and battalions. General Holmes reported
their number in this State to be 3,117.

On 12 January, 1865, he directs that the First Regiment
Detailed men under Colonel (or Lieutenant-Colonel) L. M.
McCorkle, the Second under Colonel A. G. Brenizer, and
the Third under Colonel Bouchell, should constitute a’ bri-
gade under the command of Colonel W. J. Hoke, and they
were all ordered to Salisbury. There was also a battalion of
them under Major Rencher, which was ordered to Raleigh.

On 21 February, 1865, General Holmes telegraphed Gen-
eral Bragg that he had organized two regiments of detailed

men and could turn them over to him. They were probably
utilized to guard prisoners and public property. It can not
be certainly known—auntil we can get copies of the rolls from
Washington—even who the field officers were. It seems
probable that the Colonel was W. J. Hoke, formerly Colonel
of the Thirty-eighth North Carolina and just then command-
ing at Charlotte, and that Lock McCorkle was Lieutenant-
Colonel.

The artisans in the Navy Department works at Charlotte

were in September, 1864, organized into two companies and
were doubtless placed in this regiment.