640 Nortu Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

where to guard prisoners—large bodies of Federal officers on
the road to exchange. These prisoners were turned over at
Goldsboro to the Junior Reserves, who presumably carried
them to Wilmington to be exchanged. These officers doubt-
less saw that the end of the Southern Confederacy was near
when companies of cadets were ordered into the field and so
it proved; for soon General Johnston’s army retreated past
Raleigh and Lee had surrendered.

The corps of cadets was disbanded at Hillsboro a few days
before Johnston’s surrender.

The foregoing very brief sketch will give some idea of the
part played by the Academic Corps during the four years of
the war. It was a modest part, but it was done thoroughly
and well. :

The cadets who were at the academy in the Spring of 1861
went into the army with scarcely a single exception and
nearly all became officers in spite of their youth. Four of
them ultimately became Field Officers; Walter Clark (one of
the youngest at the academy), Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sev-
entieth Regiment N. ©. T.; W. F. Beasley Lieutenant-Colo-
nel, Seventy-first N. C. T.; Egbert A. Ross (killed at Get-
tysburg), Major of the Eleventh N. ©. T., and Nathaniel A.
Gregory Major of the Seventy-first Regiment N. C. T.

Among those who rose to be Captains were Jason P. Joy-
ner, Twenty-seventh N. C. Regiment, killed at Sharpsburg,
and Matt. Manly, who at the close of the war was senior Cap-
tain of the Second N. C. Regiment. A very large number be-
came Lieutenants. Many of the cadets were from other States
and an accurate roll is not possible, but probably a third of
the young cadets at the academy in the Spring of 1861 per-
ished in the war. Among the dead, there was no more gal-
lant, chivalrous spirit than Luria, of Georgia, who was killed
around Richmond, a Lieutenant in the Twenty-third N. C.
Regiment, none more daring or indefatigable than Jock Cald-
well (son of Governor Tod. R. Caldwell), a Lieutenant in
the Thirty-third N. C. Regiment, who was killed at Gettys-
burg, and no gentler, purer, braver boy died for the Con-
federacy and the State of his birth than John Henry Cur-
tis (son of Rev. Dr. Curtis, of Hillsboro), who fell in the

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battle of Bentonville, near the close of the war, a private in
an artillery company.

Every one of the professors in 1861 also went into the
army. Colonel Tew became Colonel of the Second North
Carolina Regiment and was killed, as already stated, at
Sharpsburg, in Maryland, 17 September, 1862; Captain
Chas. E. Lightfoot became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth
N. C. Regiment, then Colonel of the Twenty-second Regi-
ment, and was taken prisoner in the Seven Days Battles in
front of Richmond, and after his exchange was in command
of the artillery defences of Richmond till the close of the
war and was paroled at Appomattox; Captain John M. Rich-
ardson was Major of the Twenty-first N. ©. Regiment in
1861; Lieutenant D. H. Hamilton was Major of the Thir-
teenth N.C. Regiment and Lieutenant Frank Schaller became
Colonel of the Twenty-second Mississippi Regiment, was
wounded and taken prisoner. Lieutenants A. S. Gaillard
and Warren Adams joined South Carolina regiments. The
first rose to rank of Captain, the latter became Lieutenant-
Colonel by the end of the war.

If the institution had been in existence a half century or
even ten years when the war broke out, instead of only two
years, it can not be doubted that the officers of the State regi-
ments would have been drawn largely from its ranks and that
North Carolina’s quota of Generals would have been in-
creased. Indeed the need of such an institution was shown
by the number of men from other States who commanded
North Carolina regiments and brigades.

Wma. Cain.

Cuapet Hut, N. C.
31 December, 1901.