MEMORANDUM.

These are articles which came after the rest of this work,
other than the Index, had been completed.—Ep.

THE FIRST NORTH CAROLINA
SOLDIEK WHO DIED.

By R. H. BRADLEY, Private Company A, Bernen ReGiMent.

The first soldier killed in battle on the Confederate side
was, as is well known, Henry L. Wyatt, of Company A,
Bethel Regiment. Three times as many men died in hospi-
tal as were killed on the battlefield, but it is not so well known
that the first soldier from North Carolina who lost his life
for the Confederacy was James Hudson, of Company B
(Hornet’s Nest Rifles), of the same regiment.

The ‘Pettigrew Hospital’ (as it was afterwards called),
was the first military hospital that was organized in the State
of North Carolina during the war between the States. It
was located on the old Fair Grounds, east of Raleigh, near
the present “Soldiers’ Home,” and in the house formerly oc-
eupied by the keeper of the Fair Grounds, which house is
still standing and is occupied by a colored family.

It was organized by the late Dr. E. Burke Haywood indi-
vidually, and not by the State, as many may think. Dr.
Haywood’s memory is revered by many an old soldier, who
was relieved and saved from an untimely death by his great
medical skill, love and sympathy. Dr. Haywood was greatly
assisted by W. H. Dodd, Esq., as druggist, whose pleasant
smiles and persuasive words would make the pills disappear
easier, let them be ever so bitter. How many (except the
oldest citizens) remember Bill Dodd as a pill roller ?

The first Regimental Hospital was organized by Dr. Peter
E. Hines, then of New Bern, now of this city.

The company of which I was a member, “Edgecombe
Guards,” arrived in Raleigh on 30 April, 1861, from Fort
Macon, where we were first ordered by the Governor.

I was just recovering from the measles when I took severe
cold from exposure, incident to camp life (my camp was

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