652 NortH Caroitina Troops, 1861-’65.

detailing 100 men to guard public stores in Greensboro, de-
clining (almost invariably) applications for exemption, ete.

The Home Guard consisted of two classes, those who were
drilled at stated periods and who were to go wherever or-
dered, and a smaller number as mail carriers, millers, public
contractors and the like, who were not required to be drilled
and who were only ordered out when their county was in-
vaded. The “detailed men” were not in the “Home Guards”
but were subject to Confederate service and were detailed as
artisans and on other special duty. They numbered over
3,100 in this State, and were organized into the Eighty-first,
Eighty-second and Eighty-third Regiments, and one Battal-
ion as already stated in this volume.

When the Conscript Act extended the Confederate limit
by taking those between 45 and 50 years into the Senior Re-
serves, it took out of the Home Guards about 6,500 men,
leaving only the 5,500 militia officers and magistrates and
other civil officers as coroners, constables and possibly 500
overseers of “fifteen negroes,” mail contractors and the like.
This so reduced the Home Guards that when ordered out the
Governor consolidated them into temporary regiments. They
were divided into first, second and third class, to serve suc-
cessive tours of duty of about thirty days each. The first
class east of Morganton were ordered to Goldsboro in Sep-
tember, 1864, and was organized into three regiments,
which numbered altogether about 1,000 men, which were at
Kinston 26 October, 1864, under command of General Col-
lett Leventhorpe. On that date Governor Vance placed them
at the disposal of General Bragg to be called to Wilmington,
if attacked.

In the latter part of November, they were sent home and
the second class were called out, who also formed three regi-
ments. A part of these later were at Wilmington under
Colonel J. G. Burr, 96 Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies,
1052, 1103, 1121, 1165; 99 Vol. do 1378, when Fort Fisher
was assailed on Christmas day. The Home Guards from
Morganton west were on duty to watch invasion of that sec-
tion. On 13 January, 1865, all three classes were called out.
In October Major M. L. Brittain’s Battalion of Cherokee

 

THE Home Guarp. 653

Home Guards was captured or dispersed. 89 Off. Rec.
Union and Confed. Armies, 1188.

In April, 1865, a stout resistance was made near Morgan-
ton by Colonel T. George Walton, and his Home Guards
against a raid under Stoneman.

Colonel A. M. Booe’s Home Guards were still under arms
at Lexington 14 April. General Leventhorpe was in com-
mand of the Home Guard Brigade at Greensboro on the same
date. 100 Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 800.

It seems that this last reorganization of Home Guards
consisted of three regiments of each class, a total of nine reg-
iments, as all were ordered out in the Spring of 1865. The
organization of these regiments is now lost except the fol-
lowing:

First Regiment Home Guards at Goldsboro, 19 October,
1864, Colonel O. R. Rand, of Wake.

The Second Regiment, same time and place. G. C.
Moses, of Wayne, Colonel; W. P. Lloyd, of Edgecombe,
Lieutenant-Colonel; W. A. Pearson, of Halifax, Major; D.
C. Clark, of Halifax, (ex-Captain Company D, Twenty-
fourth N. C. T.), Adjutant; Assistant Surgeon, H. Turner,
of Moore.

Company A—Pitt, Green and Lenoir—Captain Pope.
Company B—Warren and Franklin—Captain Speed.
Company C—Columbus and Sampson—Captain Autry.
Company D—Duplin and Lincoln—Captain Roberson.
Company E—Chatham and Rowan—Captain Jenkins.
Company F—Wayne and Johnston—Captain Phillips.
Company G—Halifax—Captain Ponton.

Company H—Randolph—Captain Wood.

Company I—Cabarrus and Gaston—Captain White.
Company K—Person and Caswell—Captain Patillo.

The Third Regiment also at same place and time, com-
manded by Colonel J. R. Cole.

First regiment of third class, at Raleigh, 14 March, 1865.
W. Forney Green, of Franklin, Colonel; D. C. Clark, of Hal-
ifax, Lieutenant-Colonel; Joseph Jenkins, of Nash, Major;