402 Nort Caroxina Troops, 1861-65.

In same work, (Serial Vol.) 96, p. 1186, Captain J. Daw-
son’s and Captain Jno. B. Griswold’s companies (both Sen-
ior Reserves) are reported at Goldsboro and on the next page
Captain Croom’s company at Kinston and Captain McDou-
gald’s and a company of Coast Guard at Wilmington. From
same publication we know Captain Foy’s and Captain Bass’
company were both unattached. This is sixteen unattached
companies (if none of these are counted twice) and there
were certainly several others, for on 11 October, 1864, the
official reports show that there was then twelve unattached
companies from this State in the Confederate service. This
was exclusive of the unattached companies in State service.
129 Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 722. On 19 No-
vember, 1864, the Adjutant-General’s office of North Caro-
lina reported 13 unattached companies. These being those
in Confederate service, the unattached companies in State
service could hardly have been fewer than seven, making a
total of twenty companies, or two regiments.

Captain Spencer was captured in Hyde County, 60 Off.
Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 154. In the history of the
Sixty-eighth Regiment its author regards Swindell’s and
Spencer’s companies as the eleventh and twelfth companies
of that regiment, Vol. 3 of this work, p. 723, but they were
probably unattached companies. These unattached compa-
nies were doubtless all very full, being mostly on home ser-
vice. Foy’s reported 100 present.

Among many patriotic companies serving temporarily on
an emergency as volunteers and of whom no official record
was kept may be mentioned the Clarendon Guards, of Fay-
etteville, composed of the best people of Fayetteville, not sub-
ject to military service, who volunteered for an emergency in
1862, and served for a month at Fort Fisher with Dr. T. D.
Haigh as Captain, without pay and supported mostly by their
own commissary. ‘Their patriotism was a brilliant instance
of the spirit of our people and should be recorded here.
There were doubtless other like companies elsewhere which
volunteered in emergencies, though not subject to duty.

NORTH CAROLINIANS IN OTHER
COMMANDS.

By THE EDITOR.

In Governor Vance’s address before the Southern Histori-
cal Society at White Sulphur Springs 18 August, 1875, he
stated that the records of the Adjutant General’s office showed
“troops from North Carolina serving in regiments of other
States not borne on our rolls,” 3,103.

Of these companies, we can now trace a company from
Halifax and Northampton whose officers were Captain Lit-
tleberry W. Mason, later Richard E. Mosely, and Lieuten-
ants Junius C. Simmons, later Matthew M. Greene First
Lieutenant, and Wm. F. Baugh and James M. Perkins, Sec-
ond Lieutenants. The roll of this company is given in Vol.
4, Moore’s Roster, pp. 432-435. This company was attached
to the Twelfth Virginia Regiment, Colonel Weisiger, in
Wise’s Brigade.

Moore’s Roster, pp. 435-438, mentions two companies,
Captain Wm. B. Clement from Davie, and Captain H. E.
Hinton from Northampton, which served in the Tenth Vir-
ginia Battalion (Cavalry). Another North Carolina com-
pany served in the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment. Besides
we know that there were North Carolina companies serving
in other regiments or battalions, raised in Virginia, East
Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. In Captain Webb’s
history of Company A, Thirteenth North Carolina Battalion,
he tells of his and another company from this State which
served in Bogg’s Virginia Battalion of artillery, and the ef-
fort to transfer them to a Virginia regiment of infantry.
The number 3,103 given by Governor Vance from the records
of the Adjutant-General’s office would indicate probably about
thirty companies, equal to three regiments.

In Captain Denson’s history of the “Engineer Corps” in
this work, he gives account of a North Carolina company be-
longing to the First Regiment Confederate States Engineers.

Another North Carolina company was Company F, in the