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April, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 2
e extraordinary fact that in the whole of North Carolina there were only 3,889 men subject to military duty who were not in some form of martial service. Most of these 3,889 were exempted because they were serving the State, in civil capacity, as magistrates, county officers, dispensers of public food, etc. So, practically, every man in the State was serving the State or the Confederacy. It may well be doubted whether a more striking evidence of public devotion was every recorded. In April, 1861, it became apparent that a peaceful arbitrament of existing difficulties was hardly possible, so the authorities began to organize the troops. The regiments, offering themselves in hot haste, were organized under two separate laws: First, those that organized under the old law of the State, through Adjt.-Gen. John F. Hoke's office, were called Volunteers; second, those that organized for the war under the act of the May convention were called State Troops. The Volunteers were the fir
April 17th (search for this): chapter 2
rbitrament of existing difficulties was hardly possible, so the authorities began to organize the troops. The regiments, offering themselves in hot haste, were organized under two separate laws: First, those that organized under the old law of the State, through Adjt.-Gen. John F. Hoke's office, were called Volunteers; second, those that organized for the war under the act of the May convention were called State Troops. The Volunteers were the first to begin mobilization; for on the 17th of April, a month before the secession convention, Governor Ellis, seeing that some sort of struggle was inevitable, had called for volunteers. The companies responding to this call were, in accordance with the usual routine, placed in camps of instruction to be armed, equipped and drilled. The first camp was pitched in Raleigh, and Governor Ellis invited Maj. D. H. Hill, of Charlotte, to take command of it. Major Hill was a West Pointer and a veteran of the Mexican war. To the raw volunteers,
June 10th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 2
now standing in Capitol Square, Raleigh, they caused to be chiseled on one of its faces this inscription: First at Bethel: Last at Appomattox. This terse sentence epitomizes North Carolina's devotion to the Confederacy. From the hopeful 10th day of June, 1861, when her First regiment, under Col. D. H. Hill, defeated, in the first serious action of the Civil war, General Pierce's attack at Bethel, to the despairing 9th day of April, 1865, when Gen. W. R. Cox's North Carolina brigade of Gen. Bryhe great contest with our brethren began only ten miles from the spot where the weary struggle of our fathers culminated. This battle—if with the memory of Gettysburg and Chickamauga still fresh, we can call it a battle—was fought on the 10th of June, 1861. Being the first serious fight, of the war, it of course attracted attention out of proportion to its importance. Anticipating attack, Col. D. H. Hill had, with the First North Carolina regiment, thrown up an enclosed earthwork on the ban
May, 200 AD (search for this): chapter 2
id change in the feelings of the people. Strong union sentiment was changed to a fixed determination to resist coercion by arms if necessary. So rapid was the movement of public events, and so rapid was the revolution in public sentiment, that just three months after the State had refused even to consider the question of secession, a convention composed almost entirely of men who thought it was the imperative duty of their State to withdraw from the Union was in session in Raleigh. On May 200th, a day sacred to her citizens in that it marked the eighty-sixth anniversary of the colonial Declaration of Independence of England, the fateful ordinance that severed relations with the Union was adopted. Capt. Hamilton C. Graham gives the following account of the attendant circumstances: New Bern Memorial Address As a youthful soldier and eye-witness of the scene, it made an impression on me that time has never effaced. The convention then in session in Raleigh was composed of m
June 15th (search for this): chapter 2
a under Major Hill, whom it elected colonel. Then, says Major Gordon, whose excellent article on the Organization of the Troops furnishes many of these facts, the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh soon followed. The first six were sent to Virginia, the Seventh to Hatteras. These regiments were under the following colonels: Solomon Williams, W. D. Pender, Junius Daniel, R. M. McKinney, Stephen Lee and W. F. Martin. However, many of them were soon reorganized. Between the 15th of June and the 18th of July, the Eighth, Colonel Radcliffe; the Tenth, Colonel Iverson; the Eleventh, Colonel Kirkland; the Twelfth, Colonel Pettigrew; the Thirteenth, Colonel Hoke; the Fourteenth, Colonel Clarke, were organized. It will be noticed that no Ninth regiment is included in these fourteen. There was some controversy about the officers of this regiment, and this number was subsequently given to Spruill's cavalry legion. These were the regiments that afterward had their numbers cha
September 30th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 2
er did it actually supply? On November 19, 1864, Adjt.-Gen. R. C. Gatlin, a most careful and systematic officer, made an official report to the governor on this subject. The following figures, compiled from that report by Mr. John Neathery, give the specific information: Number of troops transferred to the Confederate service, according to original rolls on file in this office64,636 Number of conscripts between ages of 18 and 45, as per report of Commandant of Conscripts, dated September 30, 186418,585 Number of recruits that have volunteered in the different companies since date of original rolls (compiled)21,608 Number of troops in unattached companies and serving in regiments from other States3, 103 Number of regular troops in State service3,203 ——— Total offensive troops111,135 To these must be added: Junior reserves4,217 Senior reserves5,686 ——— Total troops in active service121,038 Then, organized and subject to emergency service in the State, Home Guar
February 28th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 2
vity of the impending crisis, were loath to leave the Union cemented by the blood of their fathers. That retrospectiveness which has always been one of their marked characteristics, did not desert them then. Recollections of Mecklenburg, of Moore's Creek, of Guilford Court House pleaded against precipitancy in dissolving what so much sacrifice had built up. Even after seven of her sister States had adopted ordinances of secession, her people solemnly declared—by the election of the 28th of February, 1861—that they desired no convention even to consider the propriety of secession. But after the newly-elected President's Springfield speech, after the widespread belief that the Federal government had attempted to reinforce Sumter in the face of a promise to evacuate it, and especially after President Lincoln's requisition on the governor to furnish troops for what Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, called the wicked purpose of subduing sister Southern States,—a requisition that Governor<
January, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 2
. R. B. Vance; Thirtieth, Col. F. M. Parker; Thirty-first, Col. J. V. Jordan; Thirty-second, Col. E. C. Brabble; Thirty-third, Col. L. O'B. Branch; Thirty-fourth, Col. C. Leventhorpe; Thirty-fifth, Col. James Sinclair; Thirty-sixth (artillery), Col. William Lamb; Thirty-seventh, Col. C. C. Lee; Thirty-eighth, Col. W. J. Hoke; Thirty-ninth, Col. D. Coleman; Fortieth (heavy artillery), Col. J. J. Hedrick; Forty-first (cavalry), Col. J. A. Baker. Thus, comments Gordon, the State had, in January, 1862, forty-one regiments armed and equipped and transferred to the Confederate States government. Long before these latter regiments were all mustered in, the earlier ones had received their bloody christenings. Some one has said that in the drama of secession North Carolina's accession was the epilogue, but it is equally true that in the tragedy of battle that followed she furnished the prologue; for within two months after its officers were commissioned, the First regiment was engaged
November 19th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 2
s (probably a close estimate) that 600,000 men, first and last, enrolled themselves under the Confederate flag. What proportion of these ought North Carolina to have furnished? The total white population of the eleven seceding States was 5,441,320—North Carolina's was 629,942, and it was third in white population. Hence North Carolina would have discharged. to the letter every legal obligation resting upon it if it furnished 62,942 troops. What number did it actually supply? On November 19, 1864, Adjt.-Gen. R. C. Gatlin, a most careful and systematic officer, made an official report to the governor on this subject. The following figures, compiled from that report by Mr. John Neathery, give the specific information: Number of troops transferred to the Confederate service, according to original rolls on file in this office64,636 Number of conscripts between ages of 18 and 45, as per report of Commandant of Conscripts, dated September 30, 186418,585 Number of recruits that
May (search for this): chapter 2
striking evidence of public devotion was every recorded. In April, 1861, it became apparent that a peaceful arbitrament of existing difficulties was hardly possible, so the authorities began to organize the troops. The regiments, offering themselves in hot haste, were organized under two separate laws: First, those that organized under the old law of the State, through Adjt.-Gen. John F. Hoke's office, were called Volunteers; second, those that organized for the war under the act of the May convention were called State Troops. The Volunteers were the first to begin mobilization; for on the 17th of April, a month before the secession convention, Governor Ellis, seeing that some sort of struggle was inevitable, had called for volunteers. The companies responding to this call were, in accordance with the usual routine, placed in camps of instruction to be armed, equipped and drilled. The first camp was pitched in Raleigh, and Governor Ellis invited Maj. D. H. Hill, of Charlott
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