516 Norra Carouina Troops, 1861-’65.

wounded: Captain W. L. London, A. A. G.; Lieutenant W.
S. Barnes, Aide, and Captain W. E. Stitt (who was acting on
his staff) and who was commander of sharpshooters. On 19
October, 1864, General Ramseur (one of North Carolina’s
best officers), who commanded this division after Rodes’
death, was killed, and General Grimes was placed in com-
mand of the division and commissioned Major-General 15
February, 1865, and commanded this division until General
Lee surrendered.

Colonel D. G. Cowand, of the Thirty-second Regiment,
was then placed in command of the brigade, which he com-
manded until the surrender. Colonel Cowand enlisted in
May, 1861; was appointed Second Sergeant of his company
at the organization of the regiment; was made Major; after-
wards became Colonel. He was a brave and good officer, and
was very much liked by his officers and men. ‘This brigade
participated in all the fights and hard marches in Early’s
Valley campaign and in the latter part of December, 1864,
was ordered to the vicinity of Petersburg, Va. This division
lost more men in the campaign of 1864 than they started that
year with. This brigade oceupied a position in the trenches
in front of Petersburg during February and March, 1865;
participated in the battle of Hare’s Hill 25 March,
1865, and suffered very severely. No one who has ever
tried the trenches, can imagine what this brigade went
through during that Spring, up to their knees in mud and
water ; not half enough to eat; cold and wet; very often fight-
ing; until General Lee evacuated the trenches and fell back
towards Appomattox this brigade bringing up the rear most
of the time and checking the enemy whenever they advanced
too near. On the morning of Lee’s surrender this brigade,
with others, was ordered to drive the enemy from our front,
which they gallantly did, capturing a battery and driving the
enemy before them when the sad news came to fall back, that
General Lee had surrendered and the gallant Tar Heels un-
der General W. R. Cox fired the last volley.

Captain W. M. Hammond, of Anson County, was ap-
pointed by General Daniel A. A. G. and Chief of Staff in
September, 1862, as soon as the brigade was organized, and a

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splendid officer he made, attentive to duty and always to the
front when there was any fighting going on. He enlisted as
a private in the Fourteenth Regiment and was promoted to
Lieutenant and then to Captain and A. A. G. He resigned
his position in the Fall of 1863. He is now a lawyer in
Georgia. After Captain Hammond resigned Captain W. L
London, who had been acting as Assistant Tnspector-General,
was commissioned as A. A. G. and assigned to this biivade:
W. L. London was born in Pittsboro, N. C., 1838 siilinted
in Chatham Rifles, the first company that volunteered from
his county ; was elected Third Lieutenant, and when the
regiment was formed, he was promoted to First Lieutenant
and at the reorganization of his company he was made Ca :
tain, his company having been transferred from the Fifteenth
Regiment to the Thirty-second Regiment. Captain London
was severely wounded at Malvern Hill in 1862; was again
wounded at Gettysburg, 1863, and again at Winchcstée 1864
While at home wounded he married Miss Carrie Hawditon
on 14 November, 1864. He returned to his ols and
remained with the brigade until the surrender. Since the
war, _ has been honored by his comrades and made com-
ena ae ange North Carolina Brigade, United Con-
Richard C. Badger was born at Raleigh 8 August, 1839;
graduated at University of North Carolina in 1859 ‘audited
law under Judge Pearson and was licensed to prdetioa law
. 1860; the same year he was elected County Attorney for
W ake County. In the Spring of 1861, he was very active in
getting up the Raleigh Rifles and was Sergeant of said com-
pany, which company became a part of the Fourteenth Reg-
iment. When General Daniel was promoted, he appminted
Sergeant Badger Major and Brigade Cound and he
made a good one, for if any of the brigades had anything to
eat, Badger had his share for his brigade. He vecieued on
account of his father’s health in the Winter of 1864 and
accepted a position given him by the Legislature While
a soldier, he did his duty manfully in wee siaiehiod Hi
died in Raleigh 22 April, 1882. ae ;
Major James Edmundson was appointed Assistant Quar-