REMINISCENCES
OF THE
GUILFORD GRAYS,
CO. B, 27TH N.C. REGIMENT,
BY JOHN A. SLOAN.
WASHINGTON, D.C.:
R. O. POLKINHORN, PRINTER.
1883.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. |
| Organization of the Grays — General Joab Hiatt — Original members — Election of Officers — Drill — Arms received — First public parade — "Jake Causey" — Exercises at Edgeworth — May Queen; presentationof banner. |
| CHAPTER II. |
| The Greys celebrate Fourth of July — Visit the Orange Guards atHillsboro — Dinner and Ball — Celebrate 22d February at Greenboro — The"boom" of War — Secession of the Gulf States — Correspondence betweenGov. Ellis and Secretary Holt — Organization of the Confederacy atMontgomery — We celebrate our own Anniversary — Our Visitors — TheLadies — Feasting and Dancing — "Call" on Gov. Ellis for troops — Ellis'Response. |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Effect of Lincoln's call for troops — Gov. Ellis convenes theLegislature — The Greys ordered to report at Goldsboro with threedays rations — Ordered to report at Fort Macon — Ladies' Aid Society — Political excitement — North Carolina Secedes — New recruits — TheGreys sworn in — Arrival at Fort Macon — Latham's Woodpeckers — Assignedto the 9th Regiment — Assigned finally to the 27th Regiment — Deaths — New recruits — Routine duty at the Fort — Sports and Past-times. |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| Election of Regimental Officers — Ordered to New Berne — Burnsideapproaches — Fleet arrives on the 12th — The morning of the 14th — TheBattle — The retreat — At Kinston — Changes and promotions — Expiration ofenlistments — Regiment reorganized — Grays reorganized as Company B — Election of commissioned and non-commissioned officers. |
| CHAPTER V. |
| More recruits — Sam'l Park Weir — Leave North Carolina for Virginia — TheSeven Pines — The seven days fight — Malvern Hill. |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Marching in the rain — From Drury's Bluff to Petersburg — Riddling the"Daniel Webster" — Shelling McClellan's camp — Ordered to Richmond — AtRapidan Station — Discharges and deaths — Regimental Band formed — FirstMaryland campaign — Across the Potomac — Two Grays captured — Lost inthe woods — Turn up in Loudon County, Va. — At Harper's Ferry — Surrenderof Harper's Ferry. |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| Battle of Sharpsburg — The 27th Regiment in the fight — Complimentarynotice by President Davis, Gen. Lee and others — Cook's heroism — Casualties — Captain Wm. Adams — Recross the Potomac — Rest at Occoquan — Election of Officers to fill vacancies — Deaths. |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| McClellan moves Southward — Our march through the Valley — At Upperville — Return to Paris — Cedar ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |