608 NortH Caroiina Troops, 1861—’65.

etteville in 1812; commissioned 23 August, 1861; died in
1872. While his service was so short, we may be sure his
heart was still with the soldiers, for his only son, John Bur-
gwyn McRae, was a private in Company B, Thirteenth Bat-
talion North Carolina Troops.

Samuel W. Howerton, Missionary Baptist, Davidson
County; commissioned 31 July, 1862. Some paper pub-
lished the following: ‘Rev. S. W. Howerton, Chaplain of
the Fifteenth North Carolina Regiment, reports seventy hope-
ful conversions and many anxious inquirers in it. Every
company has prayers, nightly, immediately after roll call,
and nearly all attend and are respectful. The officers in
some instances conduct the exercises and lead in prayer.”
His life has been given to the ministry, and he is (or lately
was) living at Roanoke, Va.

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.

Rev. J. F. Watson.
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.

Jesse H. Page, Methodist Protestant, Wake County; com-
missioned in February, 1862, and served through the war.
He served six months as a private in the “Bethel Regiment”
in 1861. He continued to be a useful minister in the Meth-
odist Protestant Church until 1881, when he joined the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, South. Still faithful and efficient,
he now lives at Aberdeen, N. C.

EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.

Colin Shaw, born in Fayetteville in 1812; graduated at
Chapel Hill in 1836, began to preach in 1841, was appointed
to this Regiment by the State Legislature early in 1861, and
served one year. Became Chaplain of the Fifty-first Regi-
ment 1 January, 1863, and served through the war. (See

Fifty-first Regiment. )
NINETEENTH REGIMENT.
TWENTIETH REGIMENT.

James M. Sprunt, D. D., Presbyterian, Duplin County ;
born in Scotland in 1818. Came to Wilmington in 1839,

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taught and preached in Duplin until 1861; commissioned
June, 1861, and served through 1862 and 1863. His friends
in the army can never forget him. He walked hundreds and
hundreds of miles. Perhaps no one ever saw him on a horse
or in an ambulance during the war. The devout, scholarly
man preached in his beloved Duplin, to the delight of the
people, till the close of his long and useful life. He died in
Kenansville 6 December, 1884.

LL. A. Bikle, D. D., Lutheran, Cabarrus County ; commis-
sioned 25 January, 1864. He was preaching in General
Lee’s army in November, 1863. He has done good service
in his church as pastor, and as instructor in her schools and
colleges. He is now living at Concord.

TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

J. P. Moore, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Person
County. ‘Roster’ just gives his name and the fact of his
resignation. His service must have been very short. His
whole life was very faithful. He was born in Person County,
joined the North Carolina Conference in 1853, and died in
Halifax County in 1878.

J. J. Hines, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, spent
the last year of the war preaching to the regiments of Hoke’s
Brigade, this being one of them. We have reason to believe
that he was faithful and useful. He lives near Pollocks-

ville, N. C.

TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.

A. B. Cox, Alleghany County; commissioned 16 July,
1861; resigned 19 October, 1862. He is remembered as an
active, earnest Chaplain. His friend, Major Graham Daves,
knew him only in service and praises him. Others ought to
have told of his after life.

Frank H. Wood, D. D., Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, served January to December, 1564. He writes:
“About one and a half miles above Barnett’s Ford, on Rapi-
dan river, we built us a chapel of good-sized logs, with two
good chimneys to it, covered it with clap-boards, chinked and
daubed it thoroughly, making it entirely comfortable. In

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