14 Norra Carotina Troops, 1861-65.

Twentieth Regiment, Forts J ohnston and Caswell, “pe
Twenty-first and Twenty-third Regiments, Manassas, ‘
ri { t, Virginia.
Twenty-second Regiment, Evansport, g ees,
Pecury tous Regiment, ordered from Western Virginia
to Petersburg, Virginia. =
Pwenty-ffth Regiment, near Port Royal, South Sm
Twenty-sixth Regiment, Bogue Island, near oe ~~
Twenty-seventh Regiment, Companies A, B and ys i 0
Macon; the balance at Fort Lane, near New Bern, = us,
Twenty-eighth Regiment, near Wilmington, N. C. .
Twenty-ninth Regiment, at Raleigh under marching orders

to Jonesboro, Tennessee. shee
Thirtieth ‘dud Thirty-first Regiments, near Wilmington,

N.C. :

Thirty-second Regiment, Companies G, H, I and K 3

prisoners at Hatteras; the other six companies are statione

vear Norfolk, Virginia.
Thirty-third Regiment, Companies A, B were in Hyde

beyond s ee

County ; the balance in this city getting equipp ‘
Thirty-fourth Regiment, at High Point, North Carolina.
Thirty-fifth Regiment, at Raleigh without arms. p
Thirty-sixth Regiment, the six companies on the coast o

North Carolina.
Thirty-seventh Regiment, organized at High Point to-day.

No arms.
i ized soon if arms can be
Two more regiments can be organi

furnished for them.
The above does not include the battalion and companies

that have tendered their services to the Confederacy. They
would form, at least, two regiments.
I am very respectfully,

J. G. Martin.

Ratztes, N. C.,
21 November, 1861.

Notr.—The above is report of Adjutant General Martin, 21 November,

1861, to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper, ©. S. A.

DEEDS OF DARING--SIX HEROES.

By D. H. HILL, Lrizurenant-GENERAL.

There were at least six instances in the siege of Petersburg
in which shells, with burning fuse attached, were picked up
and thrown over the breastworks. On inquiry, each of these
brave men were from North Carolina and their names and
commands were as follows:

1. Captain Stewart L. J ohnston, Company H, Seventeenth
North Carolina Regiment, says: “A shell from one of the
enemy’s mortars fell in the midst of the company, and while
it was spinning round like a top and the fuse still burning,
Private William James Ausbon picked it up and cast it over
the breastworks where it immediately exploded. General
Beauregard in general orders directed his name to be placed
on the Roll of Honor and that he be presented with a silver
medal.”

2. Colonel Jno. E. Brown, F orty-second North Carolina
Regiment, says: “Private Frank Campbell, Company F,
of this regiment, though belonging to the Drum Corps, was
frequently on the firing line. On one occasion a loaded shell
fell into the trenches at Petersburg. Campbell caught it up
immediately and threw it outside, before it could explode,
thereby saving the lives of a number of his comrades. On an-
other occasion he threw water upon a shell for a like purpose.
He was from Davie County and survived the war.”

3. Captain T. J. Adams, Company K, F orty-ninth North
Carolina Regiment, says: “Private William Guffey, of my
company, while rubbing up his field piece, as he was pleased
to call his rifle, had the misfortune to have it smashed by a
mortar shell. Seeing the shell, with the fuse burning rap-
idly and almost ready to explode, he cried out, ‘Why, there is
the darned old thing frying now,’ and grabbing it up, threw
it over the breastworks.”

4. Captain R. D. Graham, Company D, Fifty-sixth North
Carolina Regiment, writes: ‘On 18 June, 1864, the next
day after the terrific night battle of 17 June, a battery to the