ADDITIONAL SKETCH TENTH BATTALION.

By FG: FRAZIER, First Lieutenant Company A.

The Tenth Battalion, after its organization, was encamped
some three months at Salisbury in the early part of 1862.
Company A was mostly from Randolph County. The writer
of this sketch, was first a member of Company I, Tenth North
Carolina (First Artillery), and was in the battles around
Kinston and Goldsboro, at the time of General Foster’s raid
on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in 1862. The North
Carolina troops at that juncture had nearly all been sent to aid
General Lee in Virginia, who was hourly expecting an attack
by Burnside at Fredericksburg. The same time was selected
by General Foster to make his attack in the eastern part of
the State that Burnside made his assault on Lee’s forces.
His force numbered some 20,000 men and 36 pieces of artil-
lery. All day the 12 December Colonel Pool, commanding
six companies of the Sixty-first Regiment, Bunting’s Battery,
and Starr’s, fought and held them in check between Southwest
creek and the Kinston bridge across the Neuse river, assisted
late in the evening by a part of General Evans’ Brigade. On
15 December, General Evans’ Brigade, with Mallett’s Battal-
ion and the troops engaged the day before, formed a semi-cir-
cle around the bridge on the south side of the Neuse and held
them back until 1 p. m., when a great part of the ammunition
being exhausted and no prospect of any more reinforcements,
our forces attempted to recross the bridge and burn it, partial
arrangements having been made for that purpose, but the en-
emy got near the bridge before our troops could get over. Only
a part being over when it was set on fire, some men ran
through the fire, some fell in the river and some six hundred
were captured. Two guns of our battery were lost at the
bridge. Our forces fell back to the rear of town, to Washing-
ton’s Hill. The Federals next morning recrossed the river
and marched up the river on the south side. The 15th they