E 483 .4 .N8 R2 Copy 1 CHARTER MEMBERS 2Karri] Burgwy nCLamp, NUMBER 166, UNITED m^ OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS, RALEIGH, N. C. Iiicli-iciiiag Records of Arxcestors tlarougli A^Iaona tlaey deri^^e Eligilbilit>-. CAMP TF^rPORARILY INSTITUTED JANTARY, 1809. PER- MANENTLY ORGANIZED AND CHAR- TERED MAY. 1900. RALEIGH; |^ Ai.FoRis Bynv.m ct Christopher^;. Job Printers, | 1900. f- I|l"""l|l l|l|l''''N|n''''M||i''''M||l'''M|||n'M||||IMMI|||lin|||j||lHM|||,,M,|||||in,,|||,,.H|||||,M,,||||,,,|||p I f CHARTER MEMBERS 3(arry BuiwyntXamp^ NUMBER 166, UIITED SOIS OF CGIFEDERAfE VETERAIS. RALEIGH, N. C. IncltAding Records of A.ncestors tlarouigti "Wliorta tlie;>^ derive E^llgitoility. CAMP TEMPORAEILY INSTITUTED JANUAKY, 1899. PER- MANENTLY ORGANIZED AND CHAR- TERED MAY, 1900. RALEIGH: Alford, Bynum & Christophers. Job Printers, 1900, E4-SS Camp Publication, No. 2. %. d .^^^^.vrTL CHARTER MEMBERS.^ ALLEN, JACOB STINER, Jr., (21), son of Jacob Stiner Allen, who enlisted on April 23, 1861, in the " Warren Guards " (Second North Car- olina Volunteers, afterwards Company F, Twelfth North Carolina Regiment) ; Courier on staff of General R. E. Rodes ; served throughout the entire war, and arrived at home from Appomattox on the 17th of April, 1865. ANDREWS, ALEXANDER BOYD, Jr., (1), son of Captain Alexander Boyd Andrews. Captain Andrews entered the service in 1861, and on May 16, in that year, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in Company E, Ninth Regiment of North Carolina Troops (First North Caro- lina Cavalry) ; promoted to First Lieutenant September 23, 1861 ; promoted to Captain of Company B July 12, 1862 ; served with his regiment through many campaigns and bat- tles, and was shot through the lungs in a cav- alry fight in Madison County, Virginia, on the 22d of September, 1863. *The figures after the names of members denote the numbers of their credentials, which the Camp has on file. AYER, HENRY ("HAL") WILLIAM, (4), son of Lieutenant Henry William Ayer. Lieuten- ant Ayer first entered the service as a private in the " Thomas ville Rifles," (afterwards Company B, Fourteenth North Carolina Reg- iment) ; on May 26th, 1861, was commis- sioned Second Lieutenant by Governor John W. Ellis ; afterwards detailed by Governor Zebulon B. Vance to make a tour of the fac- tories of the State for the purpose of ascer- taining what operatives were subject to con- scription ; later entered the Twenty-eighth Regiment, without rank, and was killed at the Battle of Reams's Station, August 25, 1864. CONN, DIXON l/ASS, (25), son of Sergeant Dixon Green Conn. Sergeant Conn enlisted in first company raised in Franklin County, North Carolina; on April 16, 1861, his company was officially accepted by Governor Ellis and be- came Company L, Fifth Volunteers, after- terwards Fifteenth North Carolina Regiment ; present at Battle of Dam No. 1 : immediately thereafter promoted to First Sergeant ; at Bat- tle of Williamsburg (in reserve), and Seven Days Fight around Richmond ; received five gun-shot wounds in the single Battle of Mal- vern Hill ; his Company transferred to Thirty- second North Carolina Regiment and desit^- nated Company K therein ; in January, 1863, was discharged on account of wounds ; in the spring of 1864, joined naval forces at Charles- ton, South .Carolina ; served on steamer "Pee Dee" and in Naval Battalion at Drewry's Bluff ; captured at Battle of Harper's Farm (" Green Plains ") on April 6, 1865, and im- prisoned at Point Lookout, Fortess Monroe, and Newport News. DENSON, THOMAS COWAN, (17), son of Cap- tain Claudius Baker Denson. Captain Denson commanded the "Confederate Grays" of Duplin County, being commissioned April 27, 1861 ; in 1862, entered Topographical Engineer Corps ; afterwards commissioned Second Lieu- tenant in Company A, Second Regiment of Engineers ; served in construction and defence of batteries on the Cape Fear and on the Sounds ; in campaign under General Joseph E. Johnston and elsewhere ; detached on April 8, 1865, to accompany General Bragg, and com- manded Company on retreat to South Caro- lina ; ordered home after surrenders of Lee •and of Johnston. DURHAM, BAXTER, (20), son of Columbus Durham, who enlisted on April 22, 1861, in Company E, Twelfth North Carolina Regi- ment, and served throughout the war ; was in 6 the battles of Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, Ohancellorsville, Gettysburg, and many oth- ers ; wounded four times. HAYWOOD, MARSHALL DeLANCEY, (2), son of Surgeon Richard Bennehan Haywood. On January 20, 1862, Dr. Haywood was commis- sioned Surgeon, with the rank of Major, on the staff of Major-General James G. Martin, North Carolina State Troops, by Governor Henry T. Clark ; later in that year was Senior Surgeon of North Carolina Troops by appoint- ment from Governor Zebulon B. Vance ; after each of the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Spottsylvania Court-House, Cold Har- bor, and Chancellorsville, was detailed for duty in Virginia ; was one of the commission- ers who surrendered the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, to Sherman's Army on the 13th of April, 1865. HECK, WILLIAM HARRY, (5), son of Colonel Jonathan McGee Heck. Colonel Heck was commissioned by Governor Letcher, of Vir- ginia, to raise a body of troops, which after- wards became the Thirty-first Virginia Regi- ment ; at Rich Mountain, this regiment was defeated and captured by a superior force of United States troops, under General McClel- lan ; after this. Colonel Heck was released on parole. HILL, DANIEL HARVEY, (19), son of Lieuten- ant-General Daniel Harvey Hill, General Hill organized the first camp of instruction in North Carolina and was elected Colonel of the First North Carolina Regiment, which, by re-arrangement of troops, was placed between the Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments and known as the "Bethel Regiment;" while holding the rank of Colonel, he fought the first serious battle of the war, at Bethel ; Brig- adier-General, September, 1861 ; Major-Gen- eral, March, 1862; Lieutenant-General, July, 1863 ; at Seven Pines his Division . fought the battle almost alone and also took a prominent part in the battles of Cold Harbor and Mal- vern Hill ; in the Maryland campaign his Di- vision held McClellan's army in check all day, and gave Lee time to concentrate his forces at Sharpsburg ; he and his Division figured conspicuously at Sharpsburg (" Antietam ") ; in 1863 he was sent to command a Corps in the Army of the West under General Bragg ; took a prominent part in the Battle of Chica- mauga ; commanded a Corps when Johnston retreated from Georgia to North Carolina. HINSDALE, SAMUEL JOHNSTON, (12), son of Colonel John Wetmore Hinsdale. Colonel Hinsdale entered the service in July, 1861, as Second Lieutenant on the staff of General Theophilus H. Holmes, in Virginia ; in 1862, he was transferred to the staff of General J. Johnston Pettigrew and served i;hereon as Adjutant-General until the Battle of Seven Pines ; in the Seven Days Fight around Kich- mond, he acted as Adjutant-General on the staff of General Pender: after this was again on the staff of General Holmes ; afterwards promoted to the rank of Colonel and placed in command of the Third Regiment of Junior Reserves (Seventy-second North Carolina) ; was present in the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Mechanics ville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Helena (Arkansas), Kinston, and Bentonsville ; surrendered with the Army of General Joseph E. Johnston at High Point, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. HUGHES, CHRISTOPHER MILLER (14), son of Lieutenant William Henry Hughes. Lieu- tenant Hughes entered the service as a pri- vate in " Grimes's Battery," of Portsmouth, Virginia, on the 20th of April, 1861, and about a year later became Sergeant; on June 11, 1864, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and transferred to Lee Battery, in Early's Corps ; afterwards was officer in command of Cooper's Battery ; participated in many bat- tles and was severely wounded at Winchester ; surrendered at Appomattox. HUGHES, WILLIAM HENRY, Jr., (18), son of Lieutenant William Henry Hughes, above mentioned, JOHNSON, CHARLES COUSINS, (18), son of Corporal Joseph Jackson Johnson. Corporal Johnson enlisted on April 7, 1862 ; assigned to Company C, Fifty-third North Carolina Regi- ment ; for fourteen months was on detailed duty guarding prisoners at Danville, Virginia, and for fourteen months served on James River defences opposite Richmond; present at battles of Burgess's Mill, Hatcher's Run, and Petersburg; on March 25, 1865, captured at Petersburg and confined at Point Lookout until June 25, after close of hostilities. KEN D RICK, HUGH O'KEEFFE, (15), son of Cap- tain William Bull Kendrick. Captain Ken- drick served in the Fifteenth Alabama Regi- ment through all of Stonewall Jackson's op- erations in the Valley of Virginia ; was in the battles around Richmond, at Cedar Moun- tain, luka, Missionary Ridge (wounded in two fights last mentioned) ; commanded picket line at Lookout Mountain, where he was cap- tured but escaped ; was in Vicksburg during the entire siege and was taken prisoner there. 10 McGEACHY, ROBERT SHERWOOD, M. D., (24), son of Sergeant Alexander McGeachy. Ser- geant McGeachy enlisted as a private in Com- pany G, Twenty-fourth North Carolina Regi- ment on June 14, 1861 ; promoted to Corporal, May 16, 1862 ; promoted to Sergeant, Septem- ber 17, 1862 ; served in the various battles in which his regiment figured and was severely wounded towards the close of the war. MONIE, JOHN MILLER, Jr., (3), son of Corpo- ral John Miller Monie. Corporal Monie en- listed in Company H, Ninth North Carolina Regiment (First North Carolina Cavalry); served with his Regiment in the many battles in which it engaged from Sharpsburg ("An- tietam") till March 30, 1865, when he was severely wounded and taken prisoner at Cham- berlain's Run ("Five Forks"), near Dinwid- die Court-House, Virginia. RIDDICK, WALLACE CARL, (23), son of Lieu- tenant Wiley Goodman Riddick. Lieutenant Riddick entered the service in December, 1861, as a member of Company I, Forty-first North Carolina Regiment (Third North Caro- lina Cavalry), and became First Sergeant; promoted to Second Lieutenant on June 24, 1863 ; was in battles of Washington (North Carolina), Kinston, Hanover Court-House, 11 Cold Harbor, Drewry's Bluff, White Oak Swamp, Mechanics ville. Burgess's Mill, and the fights around Richmond and Petersburg during the last two years of the war ; though present under Lee at Appomattox, he did not surrender, but made his way to General Joseph E.Johnston in North Carolina; was one of the three men who first brought the news of Lee's surrender to Hillsborough, North Carolina ; paroled in Raleigh after General Johnston's surrender ; wounded at Washington, North Carolina. STRONACH, JOHN BARTON, (6), son of Ser- geant William Carter Stronach. Sergeant Stronach enlisted as a private in Company H, Forty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, on December 31, 1862; later promoted to Ser- geant; served under General Roger A, Pry or in " Blackwater Campaign " near Suffolk, Vir- ginia, in December, 1862 ; afterwards was in operations around Washington and New Bern, North Carolina ; received shell wound in knee atBristoe Station, October 14, 1863 ; present at the AVilderness ; was at the "Horse-shoe" and in the " charge on the left " at Spotfsylvania Court-House ; at Gaines's Mill, Second Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Old Yellow Tavern, and Davis's Farm ; shot through right shoul- der and lung at Reams's Station, Virginia, 12 August 25, 1864, and being permanently disa- bled was detailed as Clerk to the Medical Ex- amining Board of Heth's Division ; surren- dered at Appomattox, STRONACH VAN DALEN, (11), son of Alexan- der Baron Stronach, who enlisted on the 1st of June, 1864, in Company B, Thirteenth Battal- ion of North Carolina Artillery ; present at the battles of Kinston, Bentonsville, etc.; paroled at Ealeigh, North Carolina, on the 12th of May, 1865. WATSON, WALTER LYNDALL, (16), son of Cap- tain Henry Lyndall Watson. In April, 1861, Captain Watson entered the service as a private in the "Johnston Light Infantry," which was later made a part of the Fifth North Carolina Regiment; elected Second Lieutenant soon after enlistment ; was in first battle of Manasas (first " Bull Run") and soon thereafter became drill-master at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh ; later joined his old company and was again elected Lieutenant ; present in the Valley Campaign and at Fred- ericksburg ; captured at Winchester and con- fined in Fort Delaware ; was elected Captain while in prison ; wounded at Gettysburg and in the Valley Campaign; for a time was Act- ing Adjutant of Regiment, and on several 13 occasions commanded Sharpshooters ; sur- vives war but recorded in Roster as " killed." WHITAKER, DAVID SPIER, (9), son of Lieu- tenant Spier Whitaker. Lieutenant Yv^hita- ker entered the service as a member of the ** Orange Light Infantry," which later formed a part of the " Bethel Eegiment " ; afterwards promoted to first Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Thirty- third North Carolina Regiment, Lane's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Jack- son's Corps ; was present at the battles of Bethel, New Bern, Harper's Ferry, Sharps- burg (" Antietam "), Fredericksburg, Ohan- cellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court-House, Cold Harbor, Jones's Farm, Fuzzle's Mill, Gravelly Hill, Petersburg, and Appomattox ; was captured at New Bern, and for three months held pris- oner at Governor's Island, the Rip Raps, and Fort Delaware. WHITAKER, DE BERN I ERE, (7), son of Lieu- tenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. WHITAKER, PERCY DU PONCEAU, (10), son of Lieutenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. WHITAKER, VERNON EDELEN, (8), son of Lieu- tenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. 14 YANCEY, THOMAS BLACKNALL, (22), son of Thomas Blacknall Yancey, who enlisted in "Clark City Volunteers," in Arkansas, on April 25, 1861 ; on May 10, this company be- came Company C, First Arkansas Regiment; elected First Lieutenant on March 30, 1862 ; resigned in summer of 1862 to join North Car- olina troops, but resignation not accepted till December 6, 1862 ; on June 8, 1863, left North Carolina to join the troops of that State in Virginia ; enlisted as private in cavalry ; cap- tured July 5, and taken to Fort Delaware ; afterwards imprisoned at Point Lookout ; ex- changed in September, 1864, and arrived at home on the 29th of that month ; enlisted in Fifty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, on February 17, 1865 ; was in assault on Fort Hare and in bat-ties of Mumfordsville, Perry ville, Second Manassas (second " Bull Run "), Shi- loh, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and numerous skirmishes ; wounded March 29, 1865. mmMnum}}mmwm^- 8 t69 e0i ei0 ■ '^'^^wm^ 111 ftavam