702 Norro CaroLina Troops, 1861-’65.

. L. Hooper, Guilford;
. R. Saunders, Guilford;
E. W. Pharr, Cabarrus;
. A, Tatum, Guilford;
Wm. J. Christian, Orange;
Nat L, Brown, Wake;
Nathan D. Laffoon, Surry;
J. D. McLester, Stanly;
Sidney P. Clark, Wilson;
O. A. Ramseur, Lincoln;
W. J. Kincaid, Burke;
W. G. Turner, Burke;
W. M. Norman, Surry;
M. H. Norman, Surry;
E. T. Thompson, Surry;
B. W. Minter, Surry;
J. H. Saunders, Orange;
L. H. Workman, Orange;
Calvin Pritchard, Bertie;
Thomas Ruffin, Bertie;
L. Bond Sutton, Bertie;
W. A. Mebane, Bertie;
Matt Manly, Craven;
Wm. H. Johnson, Mecklenburg;
E. Smith, Meckienburg;
B. R. Smith, Jr., Mecklenburg;
M. R. McDonald, Richmond;
A. A. Moffitt, Richmond;
M. H. Shuford, Lincoln;
J M. Pierson, Stokes;
M. L. Efland, Guilford;

B. F,. Pearce, Cumberland;
Anderson Ellis, Rowan;

J. A, Lea, Caswell;

Sam’l G. Parham, Granville;
W. G. Guess, Orange;
Edward A. Speed, Orange;
Robt. F. Webb, Orange;

A. S. Staynes, Lincoln;

W. W. Sherrill, Lenoir;

J. H. Gilbert, Catawba;

J. J. Forney, Burke;

L. Warlick, Burke;

Thos, L. Cooley, Orange;
Edward A. Brietz, Forsyth;
S. C. Rankin, Guilford;

E. P. G. Murray, Haywood;
W. H. Leatherwood, Haywood;
Thos, P. Jones, Buncombe;
Virgil S. Lusk, Buncombe;
Asbury T. Rogers, Haywood;
W. G. B. Morris, Henderson;
Geo, T. Bethell, Rockingham;
John T. Williams, Warren;
W. N. Garrett, Madison;

J. P. Gaston, Buncombe;
Ira Proffit, Madison;

Z. M. Candler, Madison;
Chas, T. Garrett, Madison;
Thos, C, Powell, Wake;
Isaac N. Tillett, Camden;

Henry E. Shepherd, Fayetteville.

 

The foregoing was copied by me from the original letter,
which was transmitted to Governor Vance by being concealed
in the clothes of a Confederate soldier who was exchanged on

account of bad health.

The committee appointed by the meeting met and decided
that each member should submit to an adjourned meeting a
letter to the Governor for its consideration. The original
draft prepared by Colonel Hamilton C. Jones was in substance
adopted—a few formal changes, suggested by other members,
being incorporated.

Tuos. S. Kenan.

Ratzien, N. C.,
30 March, 1901.

N. C. OFFICERS IN PRISON AT
JOHNSON'S ISLAND, 1864.

By J. F. CROSS, First Lizurenanr Company B., Fiera N. ©. T.

I enlisted inCompany B, Fifth North Carolina State Troops,
commanded by Colonel Dunean K. McRae, and was-at the first
battle of Manassas; was with General Jackson at Chancel-
lorsville, where he received his death wound; and was in com-
mand of Company B at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in Iver-
son’s Brigade.

I was wounded twice in the first day’s fight and taken pris-
oner. I was taken to the military hospital on David’s Island,
near New York City; afterwards to officers’ military prison
on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie. The stockade in which
we were kept was surrounded by a wall about twelve feet
high. There were block houses at opposite corners, with
cannon mounted to guard against a revolt of the prisoners.
Also within the enclosure were thirteen buildings for the use
of the 2,437 Confederate officers, an average of 187 to each
building.

At first we were fairly treated. A sutler’s store was al-
lowed within the enclosure, where we could supplement our
short rations, provided we had money. I wrote to a friend
in the Government Department at Richmond, Va., to draw
my back pay, invest it in tobacco, and forward it to me, which
was received (100 pounds) a few days before the blockade
was closed against the prisoners receiving anything from the
South. As I did not use tobacco, I sold the whole lot in the
prison for $100,00 in United States currency, which made
me quite a capitalist there. Very soon the sutler was with-
drawn and then came the pinch, but we were equal to the oc-
casion. In asmall way the camp became a work shop; out of
bones and rubber buttons we made chains, rings, ete.

We could occasionally bribe a guard to bring us in food

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