GENERALS COMMISSIONED BY STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1861-5.

1. Walter Gwynn, Brigadier-General. 5. James G. Martin, Adjutant-General.
2. Jno. W. McElroy, Brigadier-General. 6. Daniel G. Fowle, Adjutant-General.
3. David Clark, Brigadier-General. 7. R.C. Gatlin, Adjutant-General.

4. Collett Leventhorpe, Brig’r-General. 8. John F. Hoke, Adjutant-General.

 

 

 

GENEKALS COMMISSIONED BY
THE SLATE.

By Lizurenant E. A. THORNE, Orpnance Orricer, RaNsom’s
BriGaps.

During the war there were eight Brigadier-Generals under
State commission, who commanded troops at the front or oth-
erwise rendered active service.

1. Brigadier-General John F. Hoke, Adjutant-General of
the Militia. Through him the volunteer regiments were or-
ganized down till his election as Colonel of the Twenty-third
Regiment, when he resigned. Later he resigned as Colonel
of that regiment and in 1864 was elected Colonel of the Sev-
enty-third Regiment (First Senior Reserves) and in Octo-
ber, 1864, was placed in command as Senior Colonel of a
brigade consisting of the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth and
Seventy-sixth Regiments (First, Second and Third Senior
Reserves), which were in Confederate service and assigned
to duty guarding Federal prisoners at Salisbury and scouring
the three adjacent Congressional Districts for deserters.

2. Brigadier-General James G. Martin, who was Adju-
tant-General under the act to raise the eleven regiments called
“State Troops,” who enlisted in the beginning for “three
years or the war.” After the resignation of Adjutant-
General Hoke he was Adjutant-General of the entire service
of raising and equipping troops and likewise charged with
the defence of the State. It was on his suggestion that Gov-
ernor Vance began the importation of army supplies through
the medium of the Ad-Vance. In May, 1862, he was ap-
pointed Brigadier-General in the Confederate States service
and some months later a question being raised as to his right
to hold both commissions, he resigned the State appointment
and took command of a brigade in the field. In 1864 he
was sent to Asheville and placed in command of that depart-
ment, surrendering at Waynesville 10 May, 1865, the last

surrender this side the Mississippi.