Fourth Regiment of the North Carolina State troops.
--This is considered by all who have seen it since the regiment has been formed, the best equipped, and perhaps in all its appointments the very best regiment that has yet arrived in this city from
North Carolina, if not from any other State.
The mentions made in the preceding issues of our paper have been only partial.
We are now prepared to state fully its organization.
On Sunday last the advance portion, a detachment of six companies, arrived in the city, and are now encamped near Griffin's Spring, some two miles from the city.
The complement of the regiment, consisting of five companies, will arrive here during this week.
The following is a correct statement of the official organization of the regiment:
Colonel,
George B. Anderson;
Lieutenant Col.,
John A. Young;
Major, Bryan Grimes;
Adjutant, John D. Hyman;
Surgeon,
J. F. King;
Assistant Surgeons,
Drs.
Thomas and
Jordan;
Quartermaster, Thomas M. Blount; Commissary,
Robert F. Simonton.
Captains--Company A,
A. K. Simonton; Company K,
F. M. T. McNeely; Company E,
D. M. Carter; Company C,
J. B. Andrews; Company G.
William F. Kelly; Company B,
James H. Wood; Company I,
William T. March; Company F,
J. S. Barnes; Company D,
Junius B. Whitaker; Company H,
Ed. A. Osborne.
There is a company of Artillery attached to this regiment,
Capt. Reilly's, (Company "D," of Artillery.) This company is as yet armed with Infantry weapons, but it is hoped that it will soon be in possession of the guns appropriate to its organization.
Capt. R. is an old U. S. officer, and will make good use of his battery when he gets it.
Col. Anderson is a graduate of
West Point, and although a young man, comparatively, will no doubt make
his mark--an ineffaceable one at that — if the opportunity is ever furnished.
He is not only a most accomplished officer and gentleman, but, personally, one of the finest specimens of a man.