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644 Norru Carorma Troops, 1861-65.

Commpany B, Cadet Captain David S. McAllister, of
Cumberland county, (now a Presbyterian minister in South
Carolina. )

Adjutant, Cadet Alex. Cunningham, of Vicksburg, Miss.
Each company had four Sergeants and three Corporals. No

Lieutenants.
While we did not “smell much powder,” we did all that

was required of us, and learned something of the privations
and hardships of a soldier’s life. The cadets and professors
who were at the Hillsboro Military Academy in 1861-2 fur-
nished a large number of officers to a number of North Car-

olina regiments, and several other States.

J. Gro. Hannan.

Smuer Ciry, N. C.
31 December, 1901.

Norre—There were other schools, as’ that of Capt. C. B. Denson, al-
ready referred to, that of D. H. Christie (later Colonel of Twenty-third

N. G. Regiment) at Henderson, Lovejoy’s at Raleigh, one at Statesville,
and perhaps others, which had added military features to their regular
course of study and which sent out many well drilled officers and soldiers,
put the history of the two exclusively Military institutions at Charlotte and
Hillsboro are given as bearing more directly upon the Military organiza-
tions whose story is told in these volumes and as furnishing a fair idea,
though ona somewhat larger scale, of the aid furnished by those other

institutions.—ED.

NORTH CAROLINA MILITARY
INSTITUTE.

By BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES H. LANE.

The North Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte was
established a few years before the war by some of the well-to-
do citizens of that patriotic and enterprising town. At the
outbreak of hostilities it numbered about one hundred and
fifty cadets, officered by D. H. Hill, Superintendent and
Professor; Chas. C. Lee, Commandant and Professor; Rob-
ert M. McKinney, Professor and Instructor of Taction: and
James H. Lane, Professor and Instructor of Tactics. "Hill
rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General; Lee as Colonel of
the Thirty-seventh North Carolina, was killed at Frazier’s
Farm ; McKinney, as Colonel of the Fifteenth North Caro-
lina, was killed at Williamsburg; and Lane attained the
rank of Brigadier-General, commanding North Carolina
troops. After the fall of Fort Sumter, the patriotic ladies
of Charlotte presented the corps of cadets with a Secession
flag, made by their own fair hands. Early one morning as
the train was speeding its way to South Carolina, those en-
thusiastic boys unfurled that flag for the first time over their
barracks and saluted it with a fire from their battery, and
loud and prolonged cheering, so characteristic of college
boys. Every window on the train was open with eager heads
thrust out, the men yelling and waving their hats and the
ladies waving their dainty handkerchiefs. The engineer
made his whistle scream as it had never screamed before.
When the troops of the State began assembling Colonel Hill
went to Raleigh where Governor Ellis put him in charge of
the First State Camp of Instruction. McKinney left Char-
lotte soon after to take part in the capture of a fort in the
eastern part of the State. Those brave boys caught the war
fever badly, and were eager to resign and enter the army.