668 NortH Carorina’ Troops, 1861-’65.

FIFTIETH REGIMENT.

Vou. 3, p. 165, line 11, for “Brem’s Battery” read “Gra-
ham’s (Petersburg, Va.) Battery.”

Extract from report of Colonel James Deshler, Chief of
Artillery to General Holmes:

“Graham’s Battery seems to have completely stampeded—
resulting in the loss of two guns and three caissons.

“Captain Branch, First Lieutenant Cooper, of French’s
’ Battery, and First Lieutenant Coleman, of Brem’s Battery,
served their pieces themselves and did everything that men
could do to encourage their men.”

Extract from report of General Junius Daniel, of the bat-
tle of Malvern Hill:

“T directed Captains Graham and Brem to move forward
and report to Colonel Deshler, and I did not see these bat-
teries any more until I saw them leaving the field when Cap-
tain Graham’s Battery was almost completely disorganized,
and with two pieces and two caissons less than when it left
me. This battery, as I afterwards learned, left the field
without proper orders and in great disorder.

“For the operations of Captain Brem’s Battery, I respect-
fully refer you to his report.”

Extract from report of General Theo. H. Holmes:

“The enemy kept up a furious cannonade until after dark.
Under this my troops, which were mostly newly levied, be-
haved well, with the exception of Major E. Burroughs’ Bat-
talion of cavalry and Graham’s Battery, with a part of
Branch’s, whose conduct was shameful in the extreme.”

(In his amended report General Holmes withdraws his
reference to Captain Branch.)

(See serial Vol. 13, pages 906-911 Off. Rec. Union and
Confed. Armies.)

J. C. Exxiverton.

Rauzien, N. C.

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

Vor. 3, p. 287. In Company O, Dixon Falls was Captain
instead of Silas D. Randall. Just after Company C insert:

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“Co. D, from Cleveland county, Silas D. Randall Captain.”
On page of engraving facing p. 287, No. 4 should be “E.
D. Dixon,”
On page of engravings facing p. 299, No. 2 is T. D. Falls
and No. 3 is J. A. Whitley.
C. M. Cooxs.

Lovissure, N. C.
(This last error has been corrected in all but a few volumes.—Ep. )

FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

Vou. 3, p. 314. Line 7, on this page, by some accident
dropped out and in its place line 19 is duplicated.

This obscures the fact that Lieutenant Daniel M. McDon-
ald, of Company B, Fifty-sixth Regiment, was captured with
Lieutenant R. W. Thornton, of the same company, 22 May,
1863, and Lieutenant B. W. Thornton, also of the same com-
pany, was killed in our capture of Plymouth. The two of-
ficers first named were never exchanged.

Page 322, line 9, for Captain Bower read Barnes.

As the regiment boasted of many soldiers who could have
acquitted themselves well as company and even battalion
commanders, some of them among the earliest volunteers of
the war who cheerfully served in the ranks to the end, we
wish here to make mention of Private Wm. J. McDonald, late
of Fayetteville, N. C., now deceased, whose picture appears
at page 371, Vol. III, who went through the war without re-
ceiving or asking for a furlough.

By another accident at the bottom of p. 399, Vol. ITI,
while the reference is correctly given, there is an error in
the number of corps there stated. The reference will show
that General Lee says that there were four, and that one of
the four was assigned to Major-General Gordon, who suc-
ceeded General Early in October, 1864, and acted as a corps
commander for the remaining months of the war.

Rozert D. Granam.

Wasurineton, D. C.