The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-08
FORTIE1H REGIMENT
ORGANIZED AT BALD HEAD,
SMITHS ISLAND. IN DE-
GENDER, 1863.
ITS COMPANIES AND OFFICERS.


the Formation of the Regiment.-Tel
Companies With L 1908 Men Eniis
te .--sketch Written by One Of th'
Survivors.
eco, warrior, go, thy country calls thee
Now unto the embattIed plain
Where gorgeous plumes and glitte~inl
crcsts
Are waving DER the noble slain"
This regiment was organized at Bald
Head, Smiths Island, n. o. at the
mouth of the Cape Fear river, December
1st, 1868, from heavy artillery compa
mics organized the first year of the war,
which had been in active service, build
ing forts, batteries and other defences OF
North Carolina coast and rivers, at Hat
teras, the Pamlico, Neuse and Cape Fear
rivers, by electing John j. Hederick
(Naior of Engineers Colonel; George Tat
Captain of Company K, formerly Major
of the 8th Volunteers, afterwards the
18th infantry Lieut.. Col; William A
Holland, Captain of Company G. Major
The staff and company officers and
their successors by promotion from time
to time in the order named as gathered
from memoranda of participants in the
operations of the regiment were: James
B. Hancock, Adjutant; Thomas Hill,
Surgeon; Charles A. Mitchell, Assistant
Surgeon; John g. Blount, Quartermas
ter; William D. Neal, Sergeant Major.
Captains.
Company 4, from Lenoir county, Will
liam Sutton, y. W. Ezzell; enlisted men
124.
Company B, from Beaufort county,
William Il. Trip; enlisted men, 116.
Company @, from Beaufort county,
W B. Rodman, John E. Leggett; en-
sisted men, 1870.
Company 2, from Pamlico county,
James s. Lane; enlisted men, 121.
Company E, troEa Richmond and Rob
eson counties, Malcom McNair, Malcom
FL. McBryde; enlisted men, III.
Company F, from Watson, Edgecombe
and Greene counties, Joseph. Lawrence,
Richard Il. Blount, John .. Robertson;
enlisted men, 1875.
Company @, from Carteres, Lenoir,
Wayne, Duplin, Arson, Chatham, Ran
dolph and other counties, William A
Herring, William a. Holland, George G.
buCudLldDs 6uiISbGO iISU, 100.
Company Fl, from New Hanover coua-
ty, E D. Hall, Calvin Barnes; enlisted
men, los
Company I, from Beaufort county,
81. @. Whitehurst; enlisted men, 11s.
Company <, from Bladen county,
George TAFT, Daniel j. CLARK; enlisted
men, 1872.
First Lieutenants.
Company A, A. W. Ezzell, John vii
liams
Company B, Macon Bonner.
Company @, Ashley Congleton, John
G. Blount.
Company D, Adam Darlington.
Company E, Malcolm II. Mcbride,
John S. Macarthur.
Company F, Richard G. Tillery, Byrd
Lancaster.
Company &, Bridgers Arendell, George
G. Buchan, william HasselI.
Company Fl, Joseph Price, James R
Sterling.
Company I, Thomas Fl. Satterthwaite |
Company K, Daniel J. Clark, Jane. |
W. Dixon, Charles L. Bryan.
Second Lieutenants.
Company A, James Kinsey, John vii
Lame, John z Davis, Robert B. Vance,
Company B, Selby Hardenberg, Noah |
B. Hodges, William II Harrison.
Company @, James B. Hancock; john
Vt. Whitley, Edward Long.
Company D, Henry d. Hooker, John
j. Brabble, Pster NJ, Briggs.
Company E, John s. Macarthur, Archi
bald j. McNair, John NJ. McKinnon. =
Company F, Walter Dunn, Rich
ard Fl. Blount, John G. Robertson,
Byrd Lancaster, John L. Pool, William
F. Edwards.
Company G, George W. Davis, steph
en- Lancaster, Ebert J. Albertson, vii
liam f. Stanley.
Company q, James R. Sterling,
James Price, James McEvoy, Joseph f.
HELEN, John Il Hill.
Company l, Alex. McJones, T. A.
E. Tuten, Robert Windley, Seth Bridg
man.
Company K, james E Kelly, Edward
VI. Wooten.
Company A, 10th Regiment North
Carolina Troops.
This Company was organized in Lenoir
county, n. g, in 1861, and ordered to
Fort Hatte~as, N. O., where it remained
and clpated in the engagement at
that fort On the 28th and 29th of An
gust, 1861, when it was captured, with
the loss Of several men killed and
wounded This Company, with the
other prisoners, was transported by
steamer to New York and put on Gov
ernor's Island. where it remained about
two months, then transported to Fort
Warren, in Boston harbor, where it re
NAMED uatil exchanged. ct was here
that Lieut. Kiusey and several of the
men died from sickness). One half Of
the company was exchanged and arrived
home on Christmas day-the remaining
half was exchanged shortly afterwards;
and again entered the service; John
Davis was elected to fill tie vacancy
caused by the death of Lieut.. Kinsey)
and was ordered to Fort Lane, below New
bern, on the Neuse river, where it re
manned until Newbern was captured,
March IA, 1862 Then it fell back tc
Kinston, where it received orders to go
to Virginia as infantry, but through the
efforts Of Lieut.. A. NJ. Ezzsll, the order
was cJuntermanded by order of Major
General Whiting, and the company sent
to Wilmington in April, 1862, and did
provost guard duty During this time
Capt. Sutton resigned, and Lieut.. A. W.
Ezzell was commissioned Captain of the
(fovonouv an Oat0bar 18th 1892 and