The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-12-14
ORIGINAL MUSTER ROLL.
PR ESENTED TO THE FORSYTH
RIFLEMES
BY Gel \. III. Belo, Of Texas-Names of
the Officers and PrIyates Who
Served in the War.

Mr.. ]. c. Buxton has sent the fol
lowing letter to Capt J. G. Bessent
of the Forsyth Rifiemen, which ex
plains itself:
DEAR SIR:-Py direction of Col. a
H. Belo, of Dallas, Texas, l taxi
pleasure in entrusting to your Com
pany the keeping of the original mus
ter and descriptive roll of his COmpa
ny. known as tile Forsyth Rifiemen
dateG .i5inc 1861, aud also the pay rol
from May 22Iid, 1861 To september 1st
1861.
This was the first Company organ.
lied in this county. and contains the
names of men VII known to our PEG
pie, some of thcm still living, and
many of them Ill. rendered their live.
in behalf of the South Col BelC
leaves these valuable and highly
priZed Documents - your Company,
where they can be Inspected by those
OF his COMPANY who survive, belieV
ing that you viii take excellent care
OF them ana value them as the origi
nal muster roll of yoHr Company. L
also enclose photograph Of Col. Belo,
who was the first Captain of your or
ganiZation, and which he presents
with his compliments, and the wish
that the Forsyth Rifiemen will pre-
serve the good name earned by their
predecessors in times that tried mems
souls.
THE MUSTER ROLL.
The original muster roll of the Ri
flemen reads as follows:
A II Belo, Captain; Lieutenants,
William G Masten, Ed A Brtitz and
David Barrow: Sergeants, William
Pfohl, Samuel g James, Gabriel L
Clayton aud Albert 'Alspaugh; Corpo-
rails, David 2 Jackson, Henry 2 Bar
row, John " Miller, Henry Hughes:
Ensign. GursdnTff Susdorff; Musicians,
Calvin Wren and James A Reich.
Privates, Benjamin Atwood, Ed
ward Banner. Charles Barrow, Reuben
A Barrow, William f Barber, James
a Beck. Philip L Billister, John a
Billister, Jacob w Brinkley, William
BOles, James p Boles, Henry S But
ner, James Butner, Martin Chamber
lain, Matthew Clayton, Henry w
Clemmons, John II Cofer, Bedford p
Copeland, John NJ P Doub, John J
Hart, William \ Hart, Joseph G Hau-
ser, John NJ HauSer. William Harold,
John A Hester, Abraham Hicks, Lew
is + Hine, John II Hine, Daniel j
Holder. Junius p Holland, Robert NJ
Jenkins, Joel Kennedy, Alexander w
kiZer, Charles NJ LaSley, Philemon
Leinbdck. David Lumley. William
Mas, Samuel Z Miller, Carlos w Mil
Ter, james L Moore, John H. Moore,
Junius r Moore, Mathew Ogburn,
William Ogburn, George Fl Parbam,
VIM Il Parsons, Charles PETERS, FOs-
ter Philips, George w Ransom, Par
mimic Reich. Christian ReitZel, Col
umbus Reynolds, Alexander Rights,
James a Samuel, Peter II Scales, Geo
w Sites. Parmenie ShultZ,. John G
Smith, Martin Sprinkle, Alfred Ste
phens. Jesse j Styers, Edward J Sty-
ers, William Thomas, VIM T Vogler,
VIM II II NasS, James G Webb, Geo
Webster. Levi S Wicker, VIM ii
White, Julius Wellington.
This company was organized here
and mustered into the regular service
at Danyiue, in June 1861, as the
Forsyth Rifiemen. On July 18th, 1861,
mOnd, Va, where they remained I'M
til the 10th, where they went to Ma |
nassuS Junction, reaching there on
the evening of the 18th.
Next morning early they marched |
four miles to Bull Run, and were sta
toned on the left in the battle of
that day with no loss. On the 21st, |
they were placed in centre under a
heavy cannOnade all day and in the |
evening charged the enemy and pur-
sued them several miles, sustaining |
no loss whatever
The muster roll shows that at one
time between this and September,
owing to sickness they had only six
teen men report for duty out of
six on the roll.