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16 Norra Carona Troops, 1861-65.

soht of the Baxter road threw a shell into a “es ae a
Gaitar afterwards exploded on. 30 July, ae shige
crowded with men from our regiment. Its exp = eae
have caused a great loss of life, but quick as thoug “ epee
John Alvis Parker, of my company, had - _ vies .
and threw it over the breastworks, saying, ia os Aaa ae
ra
t exploded as it went over. There was no ;
Me as war. I heard that the same pad - as done by a
f Pegram’s Battery the same day. : t
ok ‘icant © L. Faison, Sixty-first North aan a:
e f Sergeant Thomas L.
iment, says: “I send you the name 0 sis :
Gres Say A, of this regiment, as He of ah nd age
4, at Co arbor,
less heroes.’ On 3 June, 1864, L pie
i K hell fell in the trench o
my was shelling our works, a s in :

apie by our epuhent, in a smoking condition and =
ready to burst. It was at once seized by this brave man a

I ver the parapet.” :
& Canin J a D. Cumming, Cumming’s Battery, om:
phy C, Thirteenth North Carolina Battalion, <e :

?

“While Butler was ‘bottled up’ at Bermuda ee sie
a heavy cannonade on 3 June, 1864, a shell from a eat
battery, just opposite our position, fell into our trenches =
rolled under the trail of a gun by which I tes agree! hs
vate J. P. Pierce, from Columbus County, N. C., o red =
tery, raised the shell and threw it over the parapet. Gener =
Hestnecard in a general order complimented his bravery an
presence of mind.”

2. a.

orrr, N. C.,
ate 9 April, 1867.

Nore.—The above is taken from Vol 2, Land We Love Renarily seer
by General Hill, in which — ie aepbe = ar inate
i rved, which isalso true of Colone x ‘
Witte Our leaky and our Dead. There is no record of all those a. ise
tured flags from the enemy, but in 69 Off. Rec. Union and eee anger
806 is an official report of the one a lg? ae “4 . Oat
. regiment by Lieutenant O. A. Wiggins, Co. E, . C.
pes of he flag ot the 17th Michigan by Lieutenant J. dang mone
Co. K. 87th regiment, N. C., and of a brigade guidon by Priva sor
H. Wheeler, Co. E. Eighteenth N. C. regiment. It is to be reg aaa
that a complete list of the brave men from this State who thus cap
flags from the enemy can not now be made.

oo tae piven erepese sinter tne pie msie

Se eT A NET MMU TE F
once geese =

OTHEK DEEDS OF DARING.

By THE EDITOR.

Among the many other deeds of striking gallantry are the

following whose memory has been preserved to us by reso-

lutions of thanks by the General Assembl

y, for they are not
mentioned in any of the articles in these volumes.
On 4 July, 1863

, the General Assembly passed a resolu-
tion of thanks to “Captain John Elliott, of Pasquotank
county, his officers and men, for the gallant manner in which
they captured the two Federal steamers, Arrow and Emily,
(mail boats), the former in Albemarle and Chesapeake canal,
the latter in North river, and bringing the same through Al-
bemarle Sound and up the Chowan and Blackwater rivers
and placing them safely under our guns at Franklin, Va., a
distance of 120 miles from the place of capture, and that,
too, while numerous gun-boats were cruising the same route.”

On 7 July, 1863, the General Assembly passed a resolu-
tion of thanks to’a “detachment of six men,” of Captain 8.

_ C. Barrington’s company, of Major Jno. N. Whitford’s Bat-

talion, “for their gallant and daring conduct in boarding and
capturing the crew of one of the enemy’s boats (the Seabird)
on the waters of Neuse river, and in burning and destroying
said boat and cargo,” and requested that Major Whitford
should “forward a list of the names of the brave men who
have thus distinguished themselves” that they might be
placed on the roll of honor.

Captain Barrington’s company was from Craven and when
Whitford’s Battalion was increased and became the Sixty-
seventh Regiment, it was Company B, of that command.

On recent investigation by Major Graham Daves these
facts are learned:

“The schooner Seabird was captured at the mouth of South
river, off the Garbacon Shoals, and far within the Federal
lines. The names of the scouting party, ‘a detachment of six

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