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Rh perhaps never known, the importance of the work done for it by this undemonstrative, thoroughly efficient officer.

Under Martin’s supervision the ten regiments of &quot;State troops&quot; and all subsequent regiments were organized. The first six regiments, commanded respectively by Cols. M. S. Stokes, C. C. Tew, Gaston Meares, George B. Anderson, D. K. McRae, and Charles F. Fisher, were in a short while transferred to the Confederacy and ordered to Virginia, three of them arriving there in time to be present at the first battle of Manassas. The Seventh, Col. R. P. Campbell, was, after some delay, sent to New Bern; and the Eighth, on its completion, went to garrison Roanoke island. The Ninth was a cavalry regiment formed by Col. Robert Ransom. There were many exasperating delays in getting this regiment equipped. Horses were scarce, and Major Gordon says that neither the State nor the Confederate States could furnish saddles or sabers. Saddles were at last found in New Orleans, and Spruill’s legion, on the promise of being furnished later, generously gave up its sabers. While still ill-fitted for active service, this regiment joined General Johnston near Manassas. The Tenth regiment was composed of five batteries of light artillery and five of heavy. J. J. Bradford was its first colonel, but the regiment was, in the nature of things, always scattered. The equipping of this regiment was slow and trying. The first battery ready was a magnificent body of men, and was armed with the light guns seized in the Fayetteville arsenal the only complete battery in the State. It elected Lieut. S. D. Ramseur first captain ; on his promotion it was commanded by Basil C. Manly, and then by B. B. Guion. The next was Reilly s hard-fighting Rowan light battery This battery was equipped with guns captured at Manassas. After Reilly s promotion to major, Capt. John A. Ramsey commanded it to the end of the war. Capt. T. H. Brem, of Char-