354 Nort Carouina Troops, 1861-65.

son and John Malone, Second Lieutenants. The battery
was ordered to Eastern North Carolina and for a while garri-
soned Fort Branch near Hamilton. In April, 1863, the bat-
tery reorganized with Henry Dickson, Captain; Halcott P.
Jones and John C. Webb, First Lieutenants, and F. L. Dam-
eron, Second Lieutenant. On 27 November, 1863, it re-
ported 126 present for duty, being then at Kinston. It ren-
dered service continuously in Eastern North Carolina and
Christmas day, 1864, aided at Poplar Point to drive back
the enemy’s fleet, who were endeavoring to ascend the Roanoke
river. The battery was supported, in that fight, by the Sev-
entieth North Carolina Regiment (First Junior Reserves).

COMPANY F.

Was raised in 1862 principally in Craven and Wake with
some men from Beaufort and other counties. Its Captains
were successively Alexander C. Latham, of Craven, 1 Sep-
tember, 1862; John R. Potts, of Beaufort, promoted from

First Lieutenant 16 September, 1863, and Henry G. Flan-
ner, of New Hanover, originally Second Lieutenant.

The First Lieutenants were successively Jno. R. Potts
(promoted to Captain) and John M. Perry, of Beaufort
County; Henry G. Flanner, of New Hanover, and Geo. W.
Bryan, of Craven. The Second Lieutenants were in succes-
sion Henry G. Flanner, Martin L. Stephenson, of Lenoir
County ; Bennett Flanner, of Richmond County, and James
A. Collins. A section under the last named officer served in
the winter of 1863-’64, and spring of 1864, attached to Mac-
Rae’s (Eighteenth) Battalion in Western North Carolina.

This battery was ordered to Virginia in 1862, and served
continuously, with above exception, in Lee’s Army. In Oc-
tober, 1864, it was in Haskell’s temporary battalion of artil-
lery attached to the First Corps and served on the lines
around Petersburg with great credit and was surrendered at

Appomattox 9 April, 1865.
J. H. Myrover.

Fayerrevitiz, N. C.,
26 April, 1901.

ADDITIONAL SKETCH THIRTEENTH
BATTALION--COMPANY A.

By CAPTAIN LEWIS H. WEBB.

This company was raised in Richmond County and was
organized in April, 1862, by the election of Lewis H. Webb
Captain ; Malcolm D. McNeill and Thomas W. Moody First
Lieutenants, and H. R. Horne, of Cumberland, Second Lieu-
tenant, who later became Junior First Lieutenant.

The State being unable to equip a battery of Light Artil-
lery, the company was ordered to Richmond for equipment
and left 7 May, 1862, with 83 men and 4 officers. It reached
that city 11 May, such being the slowness of communication
in those days for Rockingham was not then on a railroad.

On 15 May a Battalion was formed of four artillery com-
panies, ours being Company D, and though nearly one-half
of the personnel was from this State, it was styled the
Twelfth Virginia Battalion and Francis J. Boggs, of that
State was made Major. Geo. H. Gregory, of Martin County
and Thos. G. Skinner, of Hertford, were Lieutenants in ae
of the other companies, and some forty of the men in that
company alone were from North Carolina.

On 25 May we were moved to Battery No. 7 near Mechan-
iesville, and assigned to duty at the siege guns already
mounted and were put to work mounting others. Here we
were during the battle of Seven Pines in hearing and almost
in sight of the firing. Measles soon after broke out from
which we had 40 men down at one time and lost 13 by death.
We were without any medical officer or any medicine except
that bought with our own means, and but for the skill and at-
tention of Lieutenant H. R. Horne, the sick men would have
fared badly indeed.

Soon an order came to disband ours, together with several
other artillery companies and transfer the men to infantrv.
The officers of our company went to the Secretary of War to

 

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