TWENTIETH BATTALION.

(MILLARD’S BATTALION OF JUNIOR RESERVES. )

By E. R. HAMPTON, Hosprray Srewarp.

One who writes history ought to be familiar with all the
facts necessary to give a complete narration of such events, in
their various details, so that by methodical arrangement one
harmonious and consistent whole may result. In attempting
to write a sketch of the First Battalion of North Carolina.
Junior Reserves,* and the part it took in the Civil War, I am
forced to admit, in the beginning that I am not thus fully
equipped for the undertaking. But in the absence of some
one better qualitied to do justice to the memory of the brave
- young men that composed it, I have consented to undertake
this patriotic and, I may say sacred duty. In an humble way
[ hope to contribute something to rescne and preserve from
obseurity and oblivion the memory of my comrades. I shall
give the organization of our battalion, and recite, as far as
in my power lies, the part it took in the great struggle be-
tween the States of the North and the South, in the latter part
of the conflict. I will narrate such facts as I can from my
own knowledge and from whatever other information I have
been able to collect.

Major John W. Moore, in compiling his “Roster of North
Carolina Troops in the War Between the States,” fails to as-
sign it a place in his work as an organization, but the compa-
nies composing the battalion have been improperly placed by
him as composing a part of the Seventieth Regiment. The
Field and Staff officers which he gives of that regiment on
page 293, Vol. 4, of his Roster, never had any command over
the five companies that follow from pages 294 to 303, but

*The First Battalion was the one commanded by Major C. W. Broad-
foot which was merged into the First Regiment of Reserves. When the
other battalions were organized into Regiments this which had been the

Ninth Battalion of Reserves became the First.--Ep.

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