646 Norru Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

Lee wrote Hill that he could not control them much longer,
and Governor Ellis ordered the whole corps to Raleigh as
drill masters, where Lee, at Colonel Hill’s request, acted as
assistant commandant of the camp, and Lane as Adjutant.
There is no doubt that the tactical knowledge of the Bethel
Regiment and the other troops in that camp was largely due
to those well drilled boys. When the Bethel Regiment was
organized, Hill was elected Colonel; Lee Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Lane Major. Colonel Hill appointed Cadet Poteat Ad-
jutant, and made Cadet Ratchford his Aide. The whole
corps wished to follow their professors to the seat of war in
Virginia, but Colonel Hill told them that none could go ex-
cept those that had their parents’ permission. A detach-
ment of them attached themselves to the regiment and took a
conspicuous part in the battle of Bethel, the first battle of
the war. After the Bethel Regiment was organized, the
corps of Cadets was disbanded, some remaining in Raleigh
and others going to the other camps of instruction. When I
took charge of the Twenty-eighth North Carolina, I found
that several of them had been assigned to it as drill-masters,
and I had one of them, Cadet Nicholas Gibbon, appointed
my Captain Commissary. After rendering such efficient
service as drill-masters, those boys were found in the army
in various official positions. In my brigade, for instance,
James G. Harris, the gallant Major of the Seventh North
Carolina, and often in command of the regiment, was a
eadet; so was John P. Young, a brave boy Captain in the
same regiment, who was killed in the bloody charge at Chan-
cellorsville. David M. Oates, the gallant Adjutant of the
Thirty-seventh North Carolina, was also a cadet. I have no
data to refer to—write only from memory—and am sorry I
cannot recall, at this late day, others of those brave boys and
their military careers. Much of my life has been spent in
military institutions of learning, and it gives me pleasure to
say that I have never seen a finer body of boys than the corps

of cadets of the North Carolina Military Institute at Char-
lotte. James H. Lane.

AvuBuRN, ALA.,
81 December, 1901.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOKTH CAR-
OLINA IN- THE WAR, 1861-65.

By Hon. K, P. BATTLE, LL. D., Mempzr Convention 1861.

These numbers are based on statistics collected in 1887
and 1890, twenty-two and twenty-five years after the close of
the war. After such a length of time it was impossible to
reach all students, owing to change of address, death or other
causes. It is believed that a much larger number entered
the army than is actually recorded. The number killed is
also too small for the same reason.

In very many cases, the statistics only give the bare fact
that the persons were in the Confederate States Army. In
such cases, for want of better information, they have been
counted under the head of “Privates.” This has undoubtedly
increased the number of privates far beyond what was actu-
ally the case. Unfortunately, however, at this time it is im-
possible to remedy this.

The alacrity with which University students rushed into
the war is indicated by the fact that out of the 80 Freshmen
who matriculated in 1859, only one graduated, and he was
of infirm health. Out of the class which matriculated in
1860, all but two enlisted, and Dr. S. B. Weeks states that
23 of them were killed. The number at the University in
1858-9 were 456; in 1859-60, 480; in 1860-1, 376; in
1861-2, 129; in 1862-3, 73. Yet, she alone of all Southern
State institutions, kept her light burning all through the war.
Dr. Weeks counted the graduates from 1825 to 1864 and as-
certained that out of the number, 1,384, at least 537 entered
the Confederate service.

Out of the Faculty of 1861, five entered the army of
whom four were killed.