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Nort Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
W. D. Waugh.

SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
SIXTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT,

E. A. Wilson, M. E. Church, South. Having spent sev-
eral years of usefulness before the war as an itinerant and as
a local preacher, he continued to preach, and entered the trav-
eling ministry of the Methodist Protestant Church.

SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT.

Hezekiah West, M. E. Church, South, Haywood County;
born 1831; commissioned 22 September, 1862; resigned 26

April, 1863, and moved to Illinois after the war.
SEVENTIETH REGIMENT.
SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

J. D. Buie, M. E. Church, South, Cumberland County,
son of a preacher, was pastor at the Straits in 1862. When
New Bern fell in March, Beaufort was in the possession of
the Federals. He writes: “Major A., commanding in Beau-
fort, sent thirty men to the Straits to arrest me, and sent
handcuffs to put on me. I escaped by sailing up Core Sound
and across Pamlico Sound to Hyde County. Walked to Tar-
boro, 125 miles, and went to Wilson, where I found Captain
J. J. L. making up a company of cavalry. I volunteered 27
April, 1862, and was mustered out with Johnston’s army 26
April, 1865.” He was made Chaplain in August, 1863.
Has been a useful preacher since the war, and is now at Jon-
athan, N. C. He writes: “After the battle of Burgess

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Mills, on 27 October, 1864, I was going over the field looking
after the dead and wounded, and I found a man, one of our
church members, sitting on the ground leaning against a tree,
with his Testament in his hand. He was dead. Died with
his open Testament and found it stained with blood.”

Of the 1,552 men in the Thirteenth Regiment, 358 were
killed or died during the war—a little over 23 per cent.
Husbands, 114. That made 114 widows. The dead fathers
left 249 orphans! North Carolina furnished over 127,000
men. ‘There is evidence that she lost 40,000. If so, taking
the loss of the Thirtieth Regiment as an average, 31 per cent.
of the dead were married, the war made 12,400 widows for
North Carolina, and something near 25,000 children father-
less !

In the Fall of 1861 a farmer who had three sons in one
regiment, shouted to their Chaplain as he passed by: “Take
care of my three boys, brother!” What fearful responsibil-
ity rested on Chaplains! They felt it. Over thirty out of
every hundred to whom they preached at the beginning were
to die before the end of the war! There have been and will
be some glad greetings between Christian soldiers and faith-
ful Chaplains in Heaven.

A. D. Bers.

Brruzt, N. C.,
9 April, 1901.