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TWENTY-SIXTH BATTALION.

(FREEMAN’S BATTALION.)

By THE EDITOR.

The following should have been printed in Vol. 4, p. 401,

as T'wenty-siath Battalion.

This battalion was the Prison Guard at Salisbury and ren-
dered faithful and onerous service. It was known as “Free-
man’s Battalion” and consisted of three companies:

Company A— Captain C. D. Freeman—110 men.
Company B—Captain H. P. Allen—108 men.
Company C—Captain H. D. Sneed—112 men.

See “Salisbury Prison, by Chaplain A. W. Mangum,” Vol.
4, at p. 753. That article also gives us a fair conception of
the nature of the duties, often most unpleasant, performed
by these companies. But beyond that narrative, we have

very little information.

COMPANY B, TENTH VIRGINIA
CAVALRY.

By H. R. BERRIER, Orperty SERGEANT.

This company was raised in Rowan, Davie and Davidson
counties, N. C. W. B. Clements, of Davie, was Captain;
H. J. Grimes, of Davidson, First Lieutenant; T. F. Grimes
and G. A. Bingham, of Davie were Second Lieutenants.
The company, when first organized, was known as the “North
Carolina Rangers,” and was attached to the Wise Legion.
The company was in the battle of Roanoke Island, but sue-
ceeded in escaping capture. It went thence to Murfreesboro,
N. C., and came under the command of Colonel W. J. Clarke,
of the Twenty-fourth Regiment N. C. T., and did picket
duty. After the burning of the town of Winton, N. C., by
the enemy, the seattered troops of Wise’s Legion were ordered
to Richmond, Va., where the Legion was reorganized with

’ geven Virginia companies, one North Carolina company, one

Kentucky company and one Louisiana company. These ten
companies formed what was afterwards known as the Tenth
Virginia Cavalry, commanded by J. Lucius Davis. The
regiment was with Wade Hampton in the charge at Seven
Pines (or Fair Oaks). Four of the company were wounded,
none killed. Company B lost seven men at Gaines’ Mills
and was under fire at both battles of Cold Harbor, Second
battle of Manassas, Antietam (or Sharpsburg), and first
Fredericksburg. In the Gettysburg campaign Company B
was under fire eighteen days out-of twenty-one consecutive
days. We forded the Potomac river at an old deer crossing,
destroyed the canal, besides seventeen packet boats loaded
with commissaries for the Federal army and went near
enough to Washington to see the big guns on the breastworks.
We burnt Montgomery Blair’s house and after numerous
small skirmishes we reached Hanover, where we had a hard
fight and lost some of our best men, and reached Lee’s army