Stephen Beauregard Weeks

Name: Southern Historical Society Papers
Author: Stephen Beauregard Weeks

Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

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“Southern Historical Society Papers”, published in 1892, is a work by Stephen Beauregard Weeks. It explores elements such as North Carolina, Confederate and Wyatt.

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ A reinforcement of one hundred and eighty men from the Third Virginia regiment was stationed on the hill on the extreme right. Company G, First North Carolina, later Bethel regiment, was thrown over to protect the howitzer, and Company A, First North Carolina, took post in the dense wood beyond and to the left of the road. The Confederates, about fourteen hundred strong, awaited the enemy in their entrenchments. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ Colonel Fox estimates the total forces of the Confederacy at about six hundred thousand men. The military population of North Carolina, in 1861, was one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty-nine, the vote cast for governor, in 1860, being one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-six. Moore in his Roster of North Carolina troops, puts the total enrollment at one hundred and four thousand four hundred and ninety-eight, but the enumeration of one regiment and of various companies is missing. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ Its commanding colonel was Daniel Harvey Hill, of Mecklenburg, who became later a lieutenant-general in the Confederate service. The company became known as A, of what was then the First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers. This regiment was the first of all the North Carolina troops to organize and take the field. Its term of enlistment was for six months and it was disbanded in the fall of 1861. After the enlistment of ten regiments of State troops, this became known as the Bethel regiment from its first battle, and by this name it has passed into history. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ Persons who knew the young soldier in life, say that the artist has caught the very spirit of his daring and chivalrous soul. It is also proposed to surmount the Confederate monument in Raleigh, of which the corner-stone was laid in October, 1892, with a statute of Wyatt with an appropriate inscription. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ The Federals attacked gallantly, but after a fight of two hours and a half were defeated, having lost eighteen killed, fifty-three wounded and five missing. The Confederates lost one killed and eleven wounded. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ Captain John Q. Marr of the Warrenton (Virginia) Volunteers had been shot by pickets on June 1. ↑ Young Wyatt's mother had been left a widow, and toward the close of the war married a man named Cook, and removed to Bath county, Virginia. She died in 1891. The ambrotype from which the painting, now in the State Library was made, was secured from Mrs. M. P. Clarke, of Richmond. The official reports of the battle of Bethel will be found in Official Records of War of Rebellion, series I, Vol. ”

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Stephen Beauregard Weeks, Southern Historical Society Papers (1892)

“ This did not include nine thousand nine hundred and three junior and senior reserves, nor three thousand nine hundred and sixty-two home guards and militia officers, nor three thousand one hundred and three troops in unattached companies or in regiments from other States. The total according to this report footed up one hundred and twenty-five thousand men. Colonel Fox says that North Carolina lost forty thousand two hundred and seventy-five men killed in battle, by wounds and disease ”

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