2 NortH CAROLINA Troops, 1861-’65.

from the official returns of the three Home Guard Regiments
at Kinston September-November, 1864, and their number an
embarrassment.

In the early part of the war the “State Troops” consisted of
the first ten regiments and the Thirty-third, which were en-
listed at the start “for three years or the war,” the others being
twelve months men or “Volunteers.” But the State Troops
in above table are the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Regi-
ments, the First Heavy Artillery Battalion (herein styled
Ninth Battalion), the Fifteenth Battalion (cavalry), and
Fourteenth Battalion (cavalry), which later was raised to a
regiment, the Seventy-ninth (or Eighth Cavalry). These
commands were never turned over to the Confederacy, having
been raised for service in the State, though they served under
Confederate Generals, like all others.

EXEMPTIONS.

As a matter of interest, the following table is here given
of exemptions in this State which were reported to the Con-
federate Congress in February, 1865. 129 Off. Rec. Union
and Confed. Armes, 1101:

Physical disability
State officers (including in this 2,650 militia officers )
Ministers of the Gospel

Newspaper employees

Apothecaries

Physicians

Presidents and College Professors

Presidents, etc., Deaf, Dumb and Blind

Overseers and Agriculturists .............-2. seers eee ee cere ;
Railroad officers and employees. ........- 2. sveeeeeeee cree sree
Mail contractors. .

Mail drivers.

Non combatants (Quakers)

Foreigners

Special exempts

Agricultural details

Shoemakers, tanners, etc

The State also furnished a large number of negroes from

time to time to work on fortifications under Confederate au-
thority.