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geant, and not J. E. Dobson. J. Y. Hemphill, of McDowell
County, was Second Sergeant. Dobson was wounded at
Weldon 11 December, 1864, and died from the effects of his
wound, as already stated.

In Company B, the name of the Captain was J. L. Eaves,
and not J. L. Evans, as given in the “Roster.”

In Company C, the name of the Second Lieutenant was A.
J. or Joseph Liner, and not “Lines,” as printed in ‘Roster.”

In Company D, the name of the Second Sergeant is A. H.
Matheson, and not “A. H. Wilkerson,” as printed in “Ros-
ter.” °

In Company E, the name of Captain Conrad is “8. F.” in-
stead of “F. S.” The name of the First Lieutenant is James
B. Douthit (mortally wounded at Kinston), and not “James
B. Danthel.”

There are undoubtedly many mistakes among the names of
privates and non-commissioned officers on the “Roster” that
perhaps can never be corrected.

In conelusion I desire to say that in looking back over a
period of thirty-six years since the boys laid down their arms
at Greensboro and saw their last service in that brave, but
overpowered army of the strangled Confederacy, I am re
minded how swiftly time has flown and that while we were
of the youngest of those who entered the military service of
the “Lost Cause,” the survivors are now men who have long
since crossed the meridian mark of life. Many of them have
gone to their final reward. Others have sought homes in
distant States. More than the third of a century has passed
since they were last together in a common cause. The mel-
lowing influences of time has done much to allay the surging
billows of bitterness and strife that surrounded their earlier
years and they remain only in the retrospect of the past. Let
us hope that our children may never see such fratricidal strife
in their day and that in the “great beyond” we may meet our
old comrades and realize the full fruition of hope in a grand
reunion in the land of eternal joy and peace.

E. R. Hamperon.

Bryson Ciry, N. C.,
26 Aprit, 1901.

 

TWENTY-FIRST BATTALION.

(ERWIN’S SENIOR RESERVE BATTALION. )

By THE EDITOR.

This Battalion was organized at Asheville in July, 1864,
and was composed of Senior Reserves from the counties of
Polk, Rutherford, McDowell, Henderson and Transylvania.
It elected as Major, L. P. Erwin, who had been Captain of
Company G, Sixteenth North Carolina Regiment, and had
been disabled by wounds at Fredericksburg 13 December,
1862, having been previously wounded at Mechanicsville, but
who now patriotically returned to aid his State in this hour
of direst need. He has in the last few days died at his resi-
dence in Rutherfordton. On 1 September, 1864, the battal-
ion then in Asheville reported 200 men present. On 1 Novem-
ber General Holmes telegraphed General Bragg that he had
sent him Millard’s Battalion (Juniors), Erwin’s Battalion
(Seniors), Shober’s Regiment, Seventy-seventh (Seventh
Seniors), and thirteen other companies of Seniors. If, as is
probable, Erwin’s Battalion went to Wilmington, one com-
pany probably remained at Asheville, for 18 December, 1864,
General Martin reports 43 men of Erwin’s Battalion at that
point, 89 Off. Records Union and Confed. Armies, 1279,
and 10 March, 1865, there were 88 reported present, at that
point, Vol. 103 of above work at page 1048.

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