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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.16 (search)
s, Colonel John E. Brown; the Fiftieth North Carolina troops, Colonel George Wortham, and Sixty-sixth North Carolina troops, Colonel A. Duncan Moore. The brigade staff consisted of Captain Charles G. Elliott, assistant adjutant-general; Major A. Gordon, quartermaster, succeeded by Captain John S. Dancy, assistant quartermaster; Major James DeMille, commissary, succeeded by Captain Lucien D. Starke, assistant commissary sergeant; Lieutenant Theodore Harrell, ordnance officer; Lieutenant William B. Shepard, Jr., aid-de-camp. Soon afterwards ordered to Wilmington in the department commanded by Major-General W. H. C. Whiting, the brigade was placed in camp near the city, and for several months went through a rigid course of instruction and discipline from squad drill to evolutions of the line, and became as well drilled as a corps of regulars, and as well clothed and equipped as a Confederate brigade could be. No enemy appeared in front of Wilmington, but when General George E. Picke
The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
as forty-eight years. He was last at sea in 1859 Commodore Barron holds the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Jeff. Davis. He is a son of Commodore Barron who struck the flag of the Chesapeake to the Leopard, and afterwards killed Commodore Decatur in a duel. Colonel William F. Martin, of the Seventh North Carolina Volunteers, is a native of Elizabeth City, N. C, and is about thirty-eight years of age. He is a lawyer by profession, having studied under the late Hon. William B. Shepard, and until the present rebellion paid but little attention to the science of war. Col. M. has always been an admirer and follower of John C. Calhoun, and a strong advocate of the nullification doctrine. He is possessed of superior natural ability, firm and determined in his opinions; but in private life has undeviatingly maintained the character of an amiable and accomplished gentleman. Lieutenant William Sharp, late United States Navy, was appointed from Virginia, and is a na