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those five companies in fact constituted the First Battalion
(originally the Ninth) of Junior Reserves. Evidently,
Major Moore in getting up his work had to deal with a great
deal of confusion, as is shown in this particular instance, and
which accounts for the note he appends in which, after giving
what he supposed to be the first five companies of the Seven-
tieth Regiment, he says: ‘The rolls of the remaining com-
panies of this regiment have not yet been found, but I am in
hopes of yet receiving them in which event they will be in-
serted further on in this volume.”

ORGANIZATION,

The First Battalion, composed of young men or boys be-
tween the ages of 17 and 18 years, was organized into com-
panies at Camp Clingman in the town of Asheville, at a point
now in the heart of the city of Asheville, near the present resi-
dence of the Hon. Thomas D. Johnston, on Grove street, in
May and June, 1864. At first the battalion was composed of
only three companies.

Company A—Buncombe and McDowell—Captain, Chas.
M. Hall; First Lieutenant, J. J. Culberson; Second Lieuten-
ants, N. N. Sumner and B. F. Young.

Company B—Rutherford, Polk and Henderson—G@aptain,
J. L. Eaves; First Lieutenant, G. W. Suttle; Second Lieu-
tenants, S. T. Blanton and I. M. Gross.

Company C—Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, M acon, Polk
and Rutherford—Captain, William P. Lane; First Lieuten-
ants, S. E. Smith, A. J. Liner, A. C. Webb and T. R. Gray.

Dr. D. T. Millard, of Asheville, was elected Major 27
June, 1864; Lieutenant Thos. E. Brown, of Abingdon, Va.,
was appointed Adjutant; Alonzo Rankin, of Asheville, Ser-
geant-Major; and Samuel D. Burgin, of Swanannoa, Bun-
combe County, was appointed Commissary Sergeant. After-
wards, at Wilmington, the writer was appointed Hospital
Steward.

After the organization of the first three companies into a
battalion at Asheville, it remained there in camp of instruc-
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mer’s command until the latter part of the summer of 1864,
when it was ordered and moved to Camp Vance, near Mor-
ganton, where it remained for several weeks on garrison duty.
Just previous to its going to Camp Vance a portion of Kirk’s
command had made a raid on that camp 28 June and cap-
tured the small garrison stationed there and had carried them
away prisoners, back through the mountains into East Ten-
nessee. 77 Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 284, 239, a
very full account. Part of the company of Captain Conrad,
afterwards of Company E, which was in camp there, was cap-
tured. The remnant which escaped capture afterwards made
up a part of Company E. Captain Conrad was himself
among the captured, but by some good fortune escaped from
his captors and afterwards had the Davie County boys added
to the remnant of his company, which escaped from Camp
Vance and on a reorganization at Salisbury, he was again
elected Captain and was attached to the battalion as Company
E. After the Bentonville fight Captain Conrad resigned
and returned to his home in Yadkin County and was twice
captured by General Stoneman’s command, but succeeded in
again making his escape in both instances.

SALISBURY—-TWO COMPANIES ADDED.

From Oamp Vance we were sent to Salisbury, 4 October,
1864, to perform guard duty over the Federal prisoners who
were in the Confederate prison at that place, and were en-
camped a few hundred yards east of the Federal cemetery.

At that place 17 October we were joined by Company D,
commanded by Captain J. A. Stephenson, composed of boys
from the counties of Alexander, Ashe, and Wilkes. The
First Lieutenant was E. F. Prather, Second Lieutenants W.
C. York and G. W. Wilcox; and, as already stated, we were
also joined by Company E, commanded by Captain S. F.
Conrad, composed of boys from the counties of Davie, Surry
and Yadkin. The First Lieutenant was James B. Douthit,
of Davie, (killed at South West Creek) ; Second Lieutenants,
G. W. Sain, of Davie, and Edwin C. Lineberry, of Yadkin.

The battalion remained on duty at Salisbury as a part
of the prison guard until about the last of October, when it

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