Nortu Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Number of students during 1830-1867 inclusive... .2,792

Deduct number dead before 1861, at least

Total number U. N. C. men entering the C. 8S. Army
1861~65 (including 6 before 1830)

Percentage of those living who were in C. S. Army....

Number of U. N. C. alumni during 1850-1862 in-
clusive

Number entering C. S. Army

Percentage of whole in C. 8. Army

Number of University men in C. S. Army killed

‘Percentage of those in army killed

NUMBER IN C. S. ARMY AND CASUALTIES.

Killed.

Lieutenant-Generals 1
Major-Generals a
Brigadier-Generals 4
Colonels 10
Lieutenant-Colonels 9
Majors 15
Moyvatants, eben os es

Surgeons 4
Captains 82
Lieutenants 63
Non-commissioned Officers ... 24
Privates 87

*299

*Later statistics collected by Dr S. B. Weeks increased the number

to 312.

The highest military rank attained by a University man
was by Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk, who was killed

at Kennesaw Mountain, in Georgia.
The University had only one son who rose to Major-Gen-

eral, Bryan Grimes.

 

University or N. C., 1861-65. 649

Of C. S. Brigadier-Generals she had thirteen. These,
named in the order of their rank (Vol. 1 of this work, p. 11)

were:

1. Richard C. Gatlin, 8. Alfred M. Scales,

2. L. O’B. Branch (k), 9. Matt. W. Ransom,
8. J. Johnston Pettigrew (k), 10. Robert D. Johnston,
4. Thos. L. Clingman, 11. Wm. Gaston Lewis,
5. Chas. W. Phifer (Miss.), 12. Rufus Barringer.

6. Geo. B. Anderson (k), 13. John D. Barry.

7. Isham W. Garrott (Ala.),

Adjutant-Generals R. C. Gatlin and John F. Hoke; the
first North Carolina Quartermaster-General L. O’B. Branch
and Colonel William Johnston the first Commissary-General,
were from the University. As were also Surgeon Peter E.
Hines, Medical Director, and Surgeon E. Burke Haywood,
of the General Hospital at Raleigh. Ashley W. Spaight was
a Brigadier-General in the Texas service, Thos. C. Manning
was Adjutant-General of Louisiana, and Jacob Thompson
was Inspector-General of Mississippi. These are not in-
cluded in the thirteen Brigadiers above who were in the Con-

federate service.
The University furnished thirty-six Colonels, twenty-two

Lieutenant-Colonels and twenty-seven Majors to North Caro-
lina. Adding those in other States, it furnished in all fifty
Colonels, twenty-eight Lieutenant-Colonels, and forty

Majors.
The names of Field Officers furnished to other States need

not be given here.
COLONELS.

John P. Cobb, Second Regiment N. C.
Gaston Meares, Third N. C. (killed).
W. L. DeRosset, Third.

D. K. MacRae, Fifth.

T. M. Garrett (killed), Fifth.

Isaac E. Avery (killed), Sixth.
William F. Martin, Seventeenth.

Robt. H. Cowan, Eighteenth.
QO. M. Andrews (killed), Nineteenth (Second Cav.).