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The First regiment band of seventeen pieces — Drum-Major, C. E. Brockett, leader Emmerson Davis — played martial music, by which the companies of the First and Second North Carolina regiments^ under command of Colonel Willie Jones, kept step in their march. The companies in the battalion were : Goldsboro' Rifles, Captain W. T. Hollowell, 36 men ; Warren Guards, Captain P. J. Macon, 25 men ; Edgecombe Guards, Captain Foxhall, 35 men. This com- pany, which bears the regiment colors, is the only one from North Carolina that was here at the corner stone laying. Two of its mem- bers have won the prize once, if not oftener, as the best drilled men in North Carolina.

The Governor's Guard, Captain J. J. Bernard, had 25 men ; the Pasquotank Rifles, commanded by Second Lieutenant W. C. Glover, 54 men ; Wilmington Light Infantry, Captain Keenan, 38 men ; Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry, Major McLaughlin in com- mand, 40 men. The last-named company, which carried the old battle-flag of the Fifty-first North Carolina, is one of the oldest in the country, having been organized in 1793.

THE FIFTH MARYLAND.

This crack regiment, one of the handsomest military organizations in the country, was the leading feature of the procession. It was the largest uniformed body in line, and the dress-suit is very clean, nice- looking. Applause was showered on it from all quarters, and it was the *' observed of all observers *' throughout the march.

They were led by their splendid band of thirty-five pieces, and drum-corps of twenty-eight pieces. F. Czarnosky is drum-major, and A. Itzel the leader of this great musical combination.

Colonel William A. Boykin was in command, and was accom- panied by his staff"— Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Markoe, Major Law- rason Riggs, Captain William Gilmor Hoffman, Jr., adjutant; Major William H. Crimm, surgeon ; Captain Robert J. Miller, quartermaster ; Captain E. C. Johnson, commissary ; Captain J. R. Trimble, assistant surgeon ; Captain B. T. Stokes, ordnance officer ; Captain Columbus 0*D. Lee, inspector rifle practice ; Captain S. Sterritt McKim, paymaster.

There were ten companies, as follows : Company A, Captain Wil- liam D. Robinson, 45 men ; Company B, Captain R. Dorsey Coale, 40 men ; Company C, Captain Robert P. Brown, 60 men ; Company D, Captain George C. Cole, 40 men ; Company E, Captain Harry