628 Nortu Carorimna Troops, 1861-’65.

at Gettysburg 2 July and were in Hampton’s famous charge
on the 3d. On the morning of the 4th this writer, although
only an Orderly Sergeant, found himself in command of the
Tenth Virginia Cavalry and remained in command until we
got to Williamsport, where most of the scattered men came
in. After this Company B was with Lee constantly in front
of Grant from Culpepper Court House over the Rapidan to
Appomattox. At Brandy Station (or Fleetwood) Company
B lost seven of its best men. At Reams Station it lost five
men killed and nine wounded. At Stony Creek, twenty
miles south of Petersburg, Company B lost one-ninth of its
entire number present. At Appomattox it was helping Fitz-
hugh Lee to burn part of Grant’s wagon train where one of
Company B’s oldest veterans lost his life (Corporal Clodfel-
ter). This writer lost his right leg at the very cluse of the

war. The larger part of Company B did not surrender, but ‘

made their way home with their horses and arms and also
their least severely wounded.

H. R. Berrier.

Baepap, N. C,
31 December, 1901.

Norr.—Every effort has been made to get a narrative of Company G,
Sixty-first Virginia, and other North Carolina companies which served
in regiments from other States. but nothing has been obtained beyond
the data given in the article on ‘‘North Carolinians in other Commands,”
already printed in this work, Vol. 4, p. 403.—Eb.

THE HOME GUARDS.

By JAMES R. COLE, Cotonen Fourra Reement H. G.

In addition to what has been already stated as to the North
Carolina Home Guards in this work, I wish to add the follow-
ing:

Having served as a private soldier in Fort Macon under
Col. Tew in the months of April, May and June, 1861, I was
promoted to be First Sergeant in Co. F, Nineteenth North
Carolina (Second Cavalry), in which I served nearly a year,
and was in the battle of New Bern and several smaller fights;
was then made Adjutant of the Fifty-fourth Regiment and
served in Eastern North Carolina and in Virginia; was then
transferred to the Adjutancy of the Twenty-second North
Carolina Regiment, then near Berryville, Va., in the Shen-
andoah Valley. After the battle of Fredericksburg and the
winter of 1862-’63, I returned home to Greensboro, N. C., on
account of my health. Soon thereafter, while in Raleigh on
my way to the Army of Northern Virginia, I was informed
by General Gatlin that Governor Vance had appointed me
Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Home Guards, and wished
me to take immediate command. I returned home and or-
ganized ten companies out of the two militia regiments of
Guilford county. I suppose there were as many as 1,000
men in the regiment before it was depleted by the Confeder-
ate Act of 17 March, 1864, which took the men from 45 to 50
into the army as Senior Reserves. The county was divided
into districts and the officers and men had specific duties to
perform in guarding bridges, arresting deserters and return-
ing them to the army, protecting the people against deserters,
robbers and traitors. At this time of the war (latter part of
1863, all of 1864 and 1865, until the close of the war) this
portion of the State was overrun by deserters not only from
North Carolina, but from all the States south, as it was in the
direct path to their homes. On the waters of Deep River,