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

Chapter 25: BATTLES
By John A. Sloan
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A veteran member of a local militia recounts the company's origins, civic rituals, and evolution into Confederate service, describing enlistment, officer elections, camp routine, medical care and aid from local women, and the regiment's movements and engagements along the coast and in Virginia and Maryland campaigns. He narrates actions at Fort Macon, New Bern, Seven Pines and the Seven Days, Malvern Hill, Harper's Ferry, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and records captures, casualties, reorganizations, and the daily hardships, marches, and small incidents that shaped soldiers' morale.

BATTLES

in which the Grays (Company B, 27th North Carolina troops) participated in from 1861 to 1865.

New Berne, N.C. March 14, 1862.
Seven Days' Battles Around Richmond June 26 to July 27, 1862.
Harper's Ferry, Va. September 15, 1862.
Sharpsburg, Md. September 17, 1862.
Fredericksburg, Va. December 13, 1862.
Bristow Station, Va. October 14, 1863.
Mine Run, Va. November 27 to December 3, 1863.
Wilderness, Va. May 5 and 6, 1864.
Graves' Farm, Va. May 10, 1864.
Spottsylvania Court-House, Va. May 12, 1864.
Attlee's Station, Va. May 30, 1864.
Pole Green Church, Va. June 2, 1864.
Cold Harbor (2d), Va. June 3, 1864.
Gary's Farm, Va. June 15, 1864.
Yellow Tavern, Va. August 21, 1864.
Ream's Station, Va. August 25, 1864.
Bellfield, Va. December 9, 1864.
Hatcher's Run, Va. February 5, 1865.
Fort Euliss, Va. March 30 to April 2, 1865.
Sutherland's Tavern, Va. April 2, 1865.

Last May I issued to our people a card in which I stated that it was my purpose to prepare and publish a work to be entitled: "North Carolina in the War between the States." I also stated that "the effort will be made to give, in a connected form, all the events pertaining to the history of the war, so far as they relate to North Carolina."

Since the publication of the card, I have been steadily engaged in the work proposed. Owing to the aid of many friends, and the material furnished by them, together with the rich supply of documents to be had here (Washington), and the material which I had already collected myself, I have been able to make more rapid progress than I anticipated when I began my undertaking.

If no unforeseen event occurs, I expect to have the work ready for the printer in the summer of 1883.

I again earnestly request all friends who desire to see vindicated the name and fame of those gallant North Carolinians who aided in our great struggle for Constitutional freedom, to send me any material they may have on hand, or any information in their possession which they may judge would be of interest.

"Let those who made the history tell it as it was."

Address—
John A. Sloan,
No. 1426 33d Street,
Washington, D.C.


Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.

Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.