650 NortH Carouina Troops, 1861-’65. iment, or adjacent. counties preferred to unite in a regiment. The battalions ranged from two companies to a county up, a battalion of five or less was commanded by a Major, if over that number by a Lieutenant-Colonel. The highest num- bered battalion was 78, as some counties were in the enemy’s lines, but with several vacant numbers where they had been combined into regiments. The regiments were as follows: First Regiment, Colonel W. H. Harrison, Raleigh. Third Regiment, Colonel J. T. Hambrick, Leasburg. Third Regiment, Colonel W. Draughan, Fayetteville. Fourth Regiment, Colonel J. R. Cole, Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Fau- cett, Major A. Sumner, Greensboro. Fifth Regiment, Colonel 8. A. Sharpe, Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Sharpe, Statesville. Sixth Regiment, Colonel T. P. Siler, Franklin. Seventh Regiment, Colonel J. G. Burr, Major H. C. Leonard, Wil- mington. Eighth Regiment, Colonel T. George Walton, Morganton. Among the battalions were these: Lieutenant-Colonel S G Worth, Forty-eighth Battalion, Asheboro. Lieutenant-Colonel 8. D. Byrd, Seventy-second Battalion, Burnsville. Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. Boyd, Twenty-second Battalion, Wentworth. Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Hampton, Sixty-eighth Battalion, Wilkesboro. Lieutenant-Colonel R. R. [hrie, Fourth Battalion, Pittsboro. Lieutenant-Colonel C. L. Harris, Sixty-ninth Battalion, Chimney Rock. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Wimbish, Twenty-third Battalion, Williamsboro. Lieutenant-Colonel Jesse Hargrove, Fourteenth Battalion, Lexington. Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Brem, Sixty-third Battalion, Charlotte. Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. Moses, First Battalion, Goldsboro. Lieutenant-Colonel N. B_ Whitfield, Twenty-ninth Battalion, Mosely Hall. Lieutenant-Colonel A A. McKoy, Twenty-seventh Battalion, Clinton. Lieutenant-Colonel K. Murchison, Twenty-fourth Battalion, Lillington Major John W. Dunham, Eighth Battalion, Wilson. Major E. R Liles, Eighteenth Battalion, Wadesboro. Major Clem Dowd, Fifty-ninth Battalion, Carthage. Major W. A. Allen, Seventh Battalion, Kenansville. Major W. F. French, Tenth Battalion. Lumberton. Major O. H. Dockery, Twenty-sixth Battalion. Rockingham. Major J. C. Gilmer, Twenty-first Battalion, Mt. Airy. Major W. F. Green, Second Battalion, Franklinton. Major A. A. Harbin, Third Battalion, Mocksville. Major J. Masten, Sixty-fourth Battalion, Winston. Major J. A. Bradshaw, Thirty-seventh Battalion, Salisbury. THE Home Guarp. 651 The other battalions in like manner, the object being as far as possible, to get as commanding officers men who had seen regular service in the army. Two brigades only were formed. One on our Northwest border commanded by Brigadier-General J. W. McElroy, ap- pointed by Governor Vance 26 September, 1863, with head- quarters at Burnsville, whose duty it was to protect against inroads from East Tennessee, and the other in the East, commanded by Brigadier-General Collett Leventhorpe. In February, 1865, he was made a Brigadier-General by the Confederate Government, at the request of the Governor. These two were the only Home Guard Brigadier-Generals. The services of these Home Guards were arduous and al- most continuous and their value has never been fully appre- ciated. They preserved public order, guarded bridges and the prisoners at Salisbury, arrested deserters and kept down the depredations of those who in organized bands made inroads upon defenseless neighborhoods. For weeks at a time, the Home Guards from other counties were ordered into Wilkes, Randolph and other counties. Two large (unprinted) volumes are filled with the correspondence and orders of the Governor in regard to the Home Guards, transmitted through Adjutant- General R. C. Gatlin. He reported that in four months’ time the Home Guard had returned to the army 1,289 de- serters and recusant conseripts, and this work was going on nearly two years, in which time with some aid from regular troops, over 9,000 deserters and recusant conscripts were sent to the army. This correspondence shows, among other orders from the Governor, directions to turn out to resist raiders and prevent their burning bridges, to catch deserters from Lee’s army as they should cross Roanoke river, sending the Home Guards into other counties as well as their own to catch deserters, to arrest and send to Raleigh Confederate soldiers who had treated the families of deserters badly, to restore property taken from deserters, to take care that arms issued to Home Guards should be guarded so as not to fall into the hands of deserters, sending a regiment to Salisbury December, 1864, that the Senior Reserves there might go home to sow wheat,