The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-21

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DENY in 1897. and from that time uiHth
the breaking out of the war served with
distinction in the regular army. y
the time of his visit, he was general
officer of the Confederacy and i'll com
mand OF the First Division of Magruder
PeniDsular Army)
THE REGIMENT AS ltGANlZElt
BY reference to the AdjutaM Genera
orders in the Appendix to TINS artcf,
il will he seen that several changes Wet
made IN the companies assigned to ths
First Regiment. When compete ar&'
ready for its departure for Virginia, IL
organization Was as follows:
DahcI H. Hill, Colonel;
Charles c. Lee. Lieut.. Colonel;
James II. Lane, Major;
j. NJ. Potent. Adiutant;
John Henry Wayt, ConmiSSary
Dir Peter L. Hines. Surge n
Dr. Joseph III. Baker, Assistant Sur
geon;
DIR. Jchn G. Hardy Assistant Sur
gecn;
Rev. Edwin A. Yates, Chaplain.
Company EGgecCmbe Guards
Captain. John L. Br;dgers; 1st Lieuten
am. Whitmcl Z. Lloyd; Second Lieu
tenant. William :. Long: Junior Secon4
Lieutenant, W. G. Lewis.
Company B. Hornets Nest Rifles
Captain Lewis S Williams; FIRST Lieu
tenant. William \. Owens: Second Lieu
tenant. William L. Hill: juror Second
Lieutenant, Thomas ID. Gillespie.
Company CT harlotte Grays-CalS
tain. Il. \. Ross; First Lieutenant. u.
4. Cohen, Second Lieutenant. Thomas
II. Trotter: Junior Second Lieutenant.
G. w. Alexander.
Company D.-Orange Light Infantry
-Captain. Richa;d j. Ashe; First Lieu
tenant, James L. Jennings: Second
lieutenant. Richard b. Saunders; Jun,-
or Second Lieutenant, Richardson Nal
lett.
Company Bmcombc dlemen-
Captain. William Wallis Mcdowell;
First Lieutenant, Washington Morrison
Hardy; Second Lieutenant Georgt
Henry Gregory; Junior Second Lieu
tenant. James Alfred Patton.
Company F-LaFayette Light Infant
ry-Captain, Joseph b. Starr; First
Lieutenant, Frank y. Roberts; Second
Lieutenant, John A. pemberton; Juniol
Second Lieutenant, George Sloan.
Company G--Burke Rifles Captain
Clark Moulton Avery: First Lieutenant.
Calvin S. Brown; Second Lieutenant
tenant, James c. S. Mcdowell.
Company H.-Fayetteville Independent
Light Infantry Captain, Wright Huske.
First Lieutenant. benjamin Robinson
Uuskc; Second Lieutenant. Charles
Belts Cook: Junior Second Lieutenant
Hector MackethIn.
Company Enfield iiiues-Captain.
y. B. Bell: First Lieutenant, NJ. T.
Whitaker; Second Lieutenant, +. NJ.
Parker: Junior Second Lieutenant, Cary
Whitaker.
Company K-Southern Stars-Cap
tain, William J. Hoke; First Lieuten-
ant, Wallace NJ Reinhardt; Second
Lieutenant Robert f. IIolle: Junior
Second Lieutenant. Ed. T. Sumner.
The field officers were the three rank.
ing officers Of the North Carolina Mill
tary Institute at Charlotte. Colonel Hill.
known by his old army title OF Major,
being the commandant. They were all
men of distinction in their profession.
y, Hill had been graduated from
West Point in 1912. had par
fcipated in nearly every import
ant engagement i'll the Mexican
war. and had won the brevet of captain
at Contrcras and Cherubusco. and OF
major at Chap,Iltepec He resigned from
the army in 1910 to become professor
OF mathematics at Washington College,
Virginia. In 1854 he became ii pro-
fessor in Davidson College, and, in 1889,
commandant and manager of the militar>
Institute at Charlotte. .At the outbreak
CT the war. he was made commandment
of the camp of instruction at Raleigh.
Lee was graduated high in his class
at West Point in 1856: became second
liam ant of ,r,Iu in, tho
signed his commission in 1859. and he
came a professor at the Charlotte Mill
tary Institute. He was made major
ard second in command at the camp Of
instruction at Raleigh
lane was enc of the two star gradu.
atcs" of his class at the Virginia Mill
tary Institute. and an A. NJ. Of the
University of Virginia. He became As
sistant professor of mathematics and
tactics at the Virginia Military InSti-
tute: later professor of those depart
nents ut the Florida State Seminary.
and then professor OF natural philosophy
in the Charlotte Military Institute He
was made drill master and adiutant OF
tie camp of instruction at Raleigh
AT THE FRONT IN VIRGINIA.
The regiment WAS immediately sent 10
the front. and. DIS we have seen reached
Richmoud in two detacbmentS--the first.
composed of tho two Fayetteville Gem
panies and the Lincoln company. under
Coioncl Hill. arriving there on Saturday
night, the 18th of May: and the second,
composed Of the remainder of the regi-
meiit under Lieutenant Colonel Leo ar
irving on Tuesday night, the Dist Thus,
as the Richmond Examiner Sriid North
Carolina bad patriot;cally anticipated the
legal act Of secession. and had actu-
ally put neary four hundred Of her
troops ON Virginia soil before its occur
renee No other State. it is believed,
did as much.
The regiment went into camp ut How
ards Grove. and remained at Richmond
until the Friday following May 24th.
As North Carolina was still technically
in the Union, and Virginia, whose ordin-
ance of secession was passed on the
18th of May. did not transfer her mill
tary establishment to the COnfederacy
until June 18th, our North Carolina
troops on Virginia soil were for some
days in the position of allies of Virginia.
As such they We're under the supreme