678 Norra Caroiina Troops, 1861-65.

officers sent as prisoners to be placed under fire at Morris
Island in the Fall of 1864. See Vol. 4, of this work, page
722.” Ep.

TWENTY-THIRD BATTALION.

Vou. 4, Page 399. The companies of this battalion were
from the following counties as appears from the records of
General Holmes’ Headquarters: Company A, Franklin and
Nash; Company B, Orange; Company C, Granville; Com-
pany D, Warren. Ep.

TWENTY-SIXTH BATTALION.

Vor. 4, Page 401. This battalion was omitted at its
proper place, but see Addenda Vol. 5, p. 626, for its history.

UNATTACHED COMPANIES.

Vor. 4, Page 401. Three other companies are known:
Captain P. M. Warren, from Chowan; Captain W. Myers,
from Perquimans, and Captain C. R. Gaylord, from Wash-
ington. Captain John W. Galloway’s company of “Coast
Guards” was raised the first year of the War for the de
fence of the coast from the Cape Fear to Little River, S. C.

While their services were not brilliant they were very ser
viceable to Blockade Runners. They were 130 in number
and are not named in “Moore’s Roster.” Ep.

NORTH CAROLINIANS IN OTHER COMMANDS.

Vor. 4, Page 403. In line 16, for “Twelfth” read “Sixty-
first.” The company of W. B. Clement, three lines lower
down in same page, has its story told, p. 627, Vol. 5, of this
work, in the Addenda. Ep.

Same page. North Carolina, besides above, had two com-
panies in the Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry, and two more
in the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, all raised in North East
North Carolina. This data was furnished me by the late
Jno. B. Neathery while connected with Adjutant-General’s

 

CoRRECTIONS. 679

office in 1871, at the time he gave material to General Rob-
ert Ransom and General Hood when the latter replied to
General Early who had criticised General Hood for his
speech in Raleigh wherein he had stated that North Caro-
lina had more troops in Virginia in 1864 than Virginia had
on her own soil.

James A. Granam.
Wasuineton, D. C.

Vou. 4, Page 404.

It appears in 129Vol. Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies
at p. 491 that many North Carolinians joined the navy, 100
going at one time. Ep.

BRIGADE ORGANIZATION,

Vou. 4, Page 442. The following North Carolina Artil-
lery was at Johnston’s Surrender:

Fortieth N. C. T. (Third Art.), serving as Infantry. See
Vol. 2, p. 764. Batteries A and B (and such part of Battery
C as had not been captured at Fort Fisher) of the Third N.
©. Battalion. See Vol. 4, p. 269.

Atkins’ Battery (B); two sections of Cumming’s Battery
(C), commanded by First Lieutenant Jno. W. Galloway;
Dixon’s Battery (E), all of the Thirteenth (Starr’s) N. ©.
Battalion. See Vol. 4, pp. 352, 353, 362.

A. B. Srronaon.

Raueieu, N, C.

GARLAND--IVERSON--JOHNSTON BRIGADE.

Vor. 4, Page 521, line 3. The author of this sketch is
Joseph F. Johnston (since the war, Governor of Alabama)

and not James F. Johnston.
Ep.

CHAPLAIN SERVICE,

Vou. 4, Page 604. Frederic Fitzgerald should be added
as a Chaplain in Second Regiment. The services of Chap-
lains were often brief and doubtless many other names are