MARTIN-KIRKLAND BRIGADE.

James G. Martin, Brigadier-General, also Adjutant-General of North Carolina.

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: nae See Cie ana Q. M., 17th Regiment, Acting Brigade Q. M.

. L, D. Starke, Captain and Acting Inspector-General.

THE MARTIN-KIRKLAND BRIGADE.

By CAPTAIN CHARLES G. ELLIOTT,* A. A. G.

In the fall of 1863, Brigadier-General James G. Martin,
commanding the District of North Carolina, with headquar-
ters at Kinston, was by the Secretary of War directed tc or-
ganize a brigade from the troops in his district and assume
the command for service in the field. This was composed of
the Seventeenth North Carolina Troops, Colonel William F.
Martin; the Forty-second North Carolina Troops, Colonel
John E. Brown; the Fiftieth North Carolina Troops, Colo-
nel George Wortham, and Sixty-sixth North Carolina Troops,
Colonel A, Duncan Moore.

The brigade staff consisted of Captain Charles G. Elliott,
Assistant Adiutant-General ; Major A. Gordon, Quartermas-
ter, succeeded by Captain John S. Dancy, Assistant Quarter-
master; Major James DeMille, Commissary, succeeded by
Captain Imcien D. Starke, Assistant Commissary ; Lieuten-
ant Theodore Hassell, Ordnance Officer ; Lieutenant William

B. Shepard, Jr., Aide-de-Camp ; Surgeon, Dr. Virginius Har-
rison.

EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

Soon afterwards ordered to Wilmington in the department
commanded by Major-General W. H. ©. Whiting, the bri-

*Since this admirable sketch of his brigade was written Capt. Elliot has
died at Healing Springs, Va., 14 August, 1901. He was born at Elizabeth
City 18 March, 1840. At the outbreak of the war he at once joined the
army. Captured at Roanoke Island, on being exchanged he was appoint-
ed Adjutant-General of Martin’s brigade which post he filled under suc-
cessive commanders till the close of the war, conspicuous in all its battles
and never absent from duty a single day from sickness or any other cause.
There was no better officer of his rank in the Confederate Army. On
many occasions he was practically in command of the brigade. He com-
manded the entire confidence and esteem of both officers and men. A
most gallant, capable officer and courteous gentleman, to know him was
tolovehim. The writer wishes to put on record not only his acknowl-
edgment of this admirable sketch but his indebtedness to Capt. Elliott

for valuable assistance in getting the histories of the several regiments
of his brigade written.—Ep.