Norra Carotina Troops, 1861-'65.

3. On General Martin’s resignation, Daniel G. Fowle was
appointed Brigadier and Adjutant-General, but a “e ere
tion only a short time, being soon elected to the vegislatu :
from Wake County. Previous to this appointment he ha
been Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment and had
been captured at Roanoke Island. In 1888 he was elected
Governor.

4. Brigadier-General Walter Gwynn was an Engineer
officer of high repute and was, on the outbreak of the war, as-
signed by the State to the supervision of our coast defences.
His reports, still on file, are valuable and show that if his
suggestions had been followed we should not have lost Hat-
teras and thus opened the door to the host of evils which beset
Eastern North Carolina the remainder of the war. With
Hatteras securely held all Eastern North Carolina would
have been exempt from invasion as fully as the Cape Fear
country was till the loss of Fort Fisher. He resigned in
1862.

5. On the resignation of Adjutant-General Fowle, Richard
©. Gatlin, who was the senior Brigadier-General from North
Carolina in the Confederate service, resigned and was ap-
pointed Brigadier and Adjutant-General in State service.
He rendered most efficient duty organizing the Home Guards,
assisting the conscript service, and supervising the State
Troops, which were the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Regi-
ments, the First Heavy Artillery Battalion, the Fifteenth
(cavalry) Battalion (Wynns’),and Fourteenth Battalion (cav-
alry) later Seventy-ninth Regiment, for none of these were
ever turned over to the Confederacy. The Sixty-eighth was
raised entirely from men within the territory occupied by the
Federals. General Gatlin’s letter and order books show the
great range of his work and the faithfulness and ability with
which he executed it.

6. Brigadier-General David Clark in January, 1862, was
assigned to the command of the defences of Roanoke river,
not so much by virtue of his command of a brigade of militia
(from Halifax, Northampton and Warren) as by special ap-
pointment from’ the Governor by reason of his knowledge of
that section. The militia of Bertie, Washington, Edgecombe

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and Martin were also placed under his orders, and authority
was given him to impress slaves, teams and supplies for his
purpose. On the fall of Roanoke Island he assembled his
militia at Plymouth, subsequently falling back to William-
ston. ‘These orders were renewed by General S. G. French
and General T. H. Holmes, who successively came in charge
of the department. The Thirty-fourth Regiment,under Col-
onel Leventhorpe and the Thirty-eighth under Colonel W. J.
Hoke were sent to his assistance, but he was not relieved of
the command till late in April when Colonel Leventhorpe suc-
ceeded him. This is the only instance of a General of Mili-
tia being in active service during that war in this State—
though it was common practice in the Revolution and in
1812-15—and this, as just stated, was rather a special as-
signment to duty than by virtue of his previous commission.

7. Brigadier-General John W. McElroy was appointed by
Governor Vance 19 September, 1863, under the act of 7 July,
1863, to establish a “Guard for Home Defence”—commonly
called Home Guards. He and General Leventhorpe, ap-
pointed a year later, were the only two Generals of the
“Home Guards.” General McElroy was assigned to duty in
charge of Home Guards of several counties adjacent to his
headquarters at Burnsville to protect that section against
raids from East Tennessee and was on duty till the surrender
of Johnston.

8. Brigadier-General Collett Leventhorpe had served as a
Captain in the English army. THe was successively Colonel
of the Thirty-fourth and Eleventh North Carolina Regiments
and was wounded at Gettysburg. In 1864 he was appointed
by Governor Vance Brigadier-General and assigned to com-
mand the three Home Guard regiments which were assembled
at Kinston in September, 1864. On 3 February, 1865, he
was appointed Brigadier-General in the Confederate service
but remained in command of these troops. He was at
Greensboro 14 April, 1865, and notified General Beaure-
gard on that date that his troops were leaving for home. 100
Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 800. But the same
thing was taking place at that time among all the troops, for
it was plain to all alike that our hope of success had passed.