618 NortH Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

Conference for years. Has since been transferred to Arkan-
sas and lives there.

Frank Sanford, a local Methodist preacher, of Richmond
County, was promoted from the ranks to the Chaplaincy of
the Fifty-seecond Regiment a short while before the surren-
der. He has since died.

FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

James H. Colton, Presbyterian, son of Simeon Colton, D.
D., commissioned 28 May, 1862. Served through the war,
preached in different States, and died in Burkesville, Ky.,
1893. “A noble, earnest man, scholarly and consecrated, he
was willing to take the humblest place so he might serve the
Master.” Was born 22 March, 1834, at Amherst, Mass.
At the time of his death, 14 February, 1893, he was presi-
dent of Alexander College, Burkesville, Ky.

FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

John Paris, D. D., Methodist Protestant, commissioned 11
July, 1862, and followed the regiment everywhere every day

till the end. This holy man was perhaps the oldest Chaplain
we had, having been born in Orange County, N. C., 1 Sep-
tember, 1809. While he walked hundreds and hundreds of
miles to preach to the soldiers, he had a wife and six children
at home that needed his presence and the labor of his hands.
What a holy sacrifice. Having been one of the most efficient
Chaplains, he continued to preach till 6 October, 1883, when
he died at Buffalo Springs, Va.

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

William Royal, D. D., Missionary Baptist, served from
Spring of 1862 till Spring of 1863, most of the time in East-
ern North Carolina. “Of those who heard him there survive
veterans who delight to testify to the impressions made upon
their hearts by his simple and sympathetic presentations of
the great truths of the Gospel.” He was born in South Caro-
lina in 1823. He preached, before the war, in South Caro-
lina, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. Since, in North
Carolina, Texas and Tennessee. The eldest of his five chil-

 

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dren was in the army. Died 3 January, 1893, in Savannah,
Georgia.
FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

J. W. Raby, M. E. Church, South, born Caldwell County,
N. C., 11 May, 1838; joined South Carolina Conference
1860; enlisted in Company I, Twenty-sixth Regiment, 30
November, 1861. Was captured when New Bern fell and
served in ranks till 4 May, 1864, when he was commis-
sioned as Chaplain to the Fifty-eighth Regiment, and served
as such till the surrender. Left North Carolina in 1868,
spent nine years in Kentucky, and the last eighteen in Bal-
linger, Texas, where he still resides, as farmer and preacher.

FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT.
SIXTIETH REGIMENT.
SIXTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

William B. Jones, Missionary Baptist, Johnston County.
Commissioned 11 March, 1863.

SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT.

Jacob Massey, M. E. Church, South, Haywood County;
born 1821, served about fourteen months, was captured 9 Sep-
tember, 1863; resigned 24 March, 1864. He moved to Ten-
nessee in 1870, and now lives at Newport, in that State. He
had a wife and seven children when he gave his time to the
soldiers.

SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

H. B. Pratt, Presbyterian, Orange County; commissioned
1 February, 1863; resigned 1 December, 1863. Some to
whom he preached in 1863 were killed in 1864. No doubt
he had attentive hearers, for he had forty “Macs” in one com-
pany. Since the war he has been a missionary in the United
States of Colombia, in Brazil, in Mexico and in Cuba.