466 NortH Caroitina Troops, 1861-’65. the devotion of a people to what they considered a duty, in sustaining a cause, right or wrong, to which their faith was pledged. The records of the Adjutant-General’s office of the State will show that North Carolina sent into the service of the Confederacy as volunteers, men at the outset, 64,636 There were recruited by volunteers from time to time 21,608 Pp SONS Saks GS ov a oe ee 18,585 Making in all, 104,829 regular troops from North Carolina in the Confed- erate service. Besides these there were regular troops in the State SEG AVE]: SES Ra Cae igi eree 8,203 Militia on home duty 2,962 Junior Reserves 4,217 Senior Reserves 5,686 Troops from North Carolina serving in regiments of other States not borne on our rolls 3,103 Total of all grades 121,038 Of this number 107,932 were regular soldiers in the Con- federate service, 3,203 were regular troops in the State ser- vice, and the remainder what may be termed ‘‘Land-wehr,” doing garrison duty, guarding prisoners, arresting deserters, ete. These were organized as follows: Sixty regiments of infantry, 6 regiments of cavalry, 3 reg- iments of artillery, 2 regiments of reserves—total, 71. Four battalions of artillery, 4 battalions of cavalry, 3 bat- talions of infantry, 9 battalions of reserves—total, 20, and 13 unattached companies, and 11 companies borne on our rolls serving in regiments from other States. These figures are official. Nore.—Governor Vance’s figures are official as far as they go but he omits some data then not known to him. A fuller and more complete statement of the number of regiments and number of troops furnished by this State will be found in the article “Number of Troops Furnished by North Carolina” in Vol. 5 of this work.—Ep. NortrH Carouina’s ReEcorp. 467 I do not know but what my assertion might be amended so as to claim that this is not relatively, but positively, more troops than any State put into service. At all events, I shall be glad if this brings forth the records of any sister State, and will submit when faily beaten. According to the report of Adjutant-General Cooper, the whole number of troops in the Confederate service was 600,- 000, of which North Carolina furnished largely more than one-sixth; one-tenth would have been about her share. Her total white population was in 1860, 629,942; of this she sent to the army more than one man to every six souls!* How they demeaned themselves in the field the bloody records of killed and wounded in all the great battles of the war bear melancholy testimony. In many of the severe conflicts on the soil of Virginia—notably in that of Fredericksburg—a large majority of the casualties of the whole army were in the North Carolina troops, as appeared by the reports in the Richmond papers at that time. One regiment, the Twenty- sixth North Carolina, at the battle of Gettysburg, which went in 900 rank and file, came out with but little over 100 men fit for duty. They lost no prisoners. One company, 84 strong, made the unprecedented report that every man and officer in it was hit, and the Orderly Sergeant, who made out the list, did it with a bullet through each leg. The regiment com- manded by General George B. Anderson (then Colonel), the Fourth North Carolina, at the battle of Seven Pines, lost 462 men, killed and wounded, out of 520, and 24 out of 27 of- ficers. Of the four divisions, D. H. Hill’s, A. P. Hill’s, Long- street’s and Jackson’s, which assailed and put to rout Me- Clellan’s right on the Chickahominy, there were 92 regi- ments, of which 46 regiments were North Carolinians. This statement I make upon the authority of one of the division commanders. At the dedication of the Confederate cemetery in Winches- ter, Virginia, some years ago, I was invited to deliver the ora- tion, and the reason assigned by the committee for soliciting *In fact more than one in every five. —Ep.