Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N.C. Regiment

d alarm throughout the South; and "law-abiding" North

clamation convening the General Assembly to m

orders from Gov. Ellis, "to report with his company, with three days' rations, at Goldsboro, N.C." This order w

Thus the Rubicon was crossed; thus did North Carolina find herself in armed conflict with the United States; and t

rtainment. Not so with mothers, sisters, and sweethearts-for except our captain, none of as were married-nature seemed to have granted to these a vision of the future, which was denied to us, and while they cheered us on with encouraging words, there was ma

. John A. Pritchett and Orderly Sergeant W. H. Bourne, resigned their offices. John A. Gilmer,

members who left for Fort M

n, Corporal; Benjamin G. Graham, 2d Corporal; Edward M. Crowson, 3d Corporal; J. Harper Lindsay, Jr., 4th Corporal. Privates: Hardy Ayres, James Ayers, William L. Bryan, Peter M. Brown, John D. Collins, Allison C. Cheely, Chas. A. Campbell, H. Rufus Forbis, Rufus B. Gibson, Walter Green, Frank A. Hanner, Alfred W. Klutts,

we were supplied with provisions and such clothing as was needful, and nobly did these blessed ladies-three of whom have since "crossed the River; resting under the shade on the other side"-perform the

n the part of our State. The following quotation from The Patriot of May 2d, 186

Gilmer, Sr., Rob't. P. Dick, and Thomas Settle. These speeches all breathed the spirit of resistance to tyrants, and our people were

g Declaration of Independence), North Carolina severed her relations with

eer recruits, all, with one or two exceptions, coming from Guilfor

er, G. D. Hines, Robert A. Hampton, Isaac F. Lane, Walter D. McAdoo, on the 4th, Wash. D. Archer, on the 9th of June. James M. Hardin, T. M. Woodburn, on the 10th. Wilbur F. Owen, Hal Puryear, Rob't. B. McLean, Edward B. Lindsay, S. A. Hunter, W. I. L. Hunt, W. C. Clapp, Israe

Greensboro, raised a company for active service, was elected its captain, and assigned to the 2d North Carolina regiment. He was killed June 21st, 1862, while gallantly leading a charge against one of the enemy's strongholds on the Chickahominy. Our surgeon,

nia, which was soon to become the theatre of active operations. In the meanwhile, the seat of government was transferred

the going down of the same, had surrendered on the 11th, without bloodshed, to Capt. Pender, of Beaufort. The sergeant was paroled, and allowed to leave the fort with his flag and side-arms. The ordnance was retained. On the next morning we saw floating from the flagstaff over the fort the Pine Tree flag, with the rattlesnake coiled around the base. This was

nd received its very appropriate nickname from the fact that, when they entered the fort, they wore very tight-fitting

letary. Our position was retained in this battalion until some time in September, when we were assigned to the 27th North Carolina regiment, which was organized with Col. Singletary as Colonel, Capt. John Sloan (of the Grays) Lieut.-Colonel, and Lieut. Thomas C. Singletary

of the regiment, Lieut. William Adams was elected captain of t

typhoid fever, on the 5th of June, having b

George J. Sloan, after seve

z.: Jno. T. Sockwell, R. D. Brown, Frank G. Chilcutt, Georg

n of every morning, upon the parapet, with a pair of opera glasses, intensely scanning the horizon of the deep, deep blue sea, might have been observed the inclined form of Capt. Guion, on the look-out for a United States man-of-war. But whether a man-of-war or the "idly-flapping" sail of some crab hunter hove in sight, the order for more sand bags was placed on file at the ordnance department. We built traverses day after day. We pulled them down and built them up again, exactly as they were before. At length the raw material, of bag, failed, and Sergeant-aid-de-camp Howlett was dispatched under sealed orders to Greensboro on some mysterious errand. We employed our leisure time which we now enjoyed (thanks to the bag failure and th

counsel. "Long" Coble appeared for him, and in his eloquent appeal for mercy-in which his legs and arms played the principal part of the argument-he compared the prisoner to a little ship, which had sailed past her proper anchorage at home and cast her lines at a neighbor's hou

s to Beaufort. Owing to the fog on the sound and the fog in the boat, the return of the party was delayed till late in the night. The faithful sentinel, Mike Wood (of the Goldsboro Rifles), being on post at the wharf that night, and this fact being known to prudent C?sar, he steered for the creek to avoid him. As these festive revellers were wading ashore, Mike, hearing the spla

e Grays. "Billy" King and his little cosey quarters were just outside the fort, and so convenient of a cold frost

ber, private James D

terling, who was absent on furlough,

ght to the fort and confined there for a short time. What is of more interest was, that we received valuable

nborn. The war had been so far a mere frolic. In the radiant sunshine of the mom