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made a Major-* ieneral of X. C. S. T. The first assistant Adjutant (<ncr.il. was |. !'. H<kc . i.shi); the first Quartermaster ( ieneral u as L. '!{. Branrh; tin- first Commissary ( inn-nil was Col. William Johnston. Matt. W. Ransom was made a Major-( ieneral in 1X65 and Col. John D. Marry was commissioned a Hi -igadier-( inn-nil, with tern por.iry rank, on the third of August, 1X64.

In the medical department we find Dr. Peter K. Mines as the Med- ical Director of North Carolina troops. Dr. K. Hnrke Haywood as surgeon of the General Mospital at Raleigh, and Joseph H. Baker \\.is the first assistant Surgeon of North Carolina troops, commis- sioned in is6i. Other alumni rendered similar services to other states; Ashley W. Spaight was Brigadier-General in the service of Texas; Thomas C. Manning was Adjutant-General of Louisana in 1863, with the rank of Brigadier; Jacob Thompson was an Inspec- tor-General.

Should full information ever be obtained it will no doubt appear that there were other cases where alumni of this University served their States in high military capacity, although not forming a part of the regular army of the Confederate States.

When we come to the list of colonels and lieutenant-colonels their number is very large. These were furnished to the Confederacy by North Carolina: seventy-six regiments (besides thirteen battalions and a few other troops, making, perhaps, in all eighty full regi- ments). Out of the seventy-six regular regiments we find that forty-eight had at one time or another a son of this University in the first or second place of command. The list includes forty-five colonels and twenty-nine lieutenant-colonels. We are to remember also that all of the alumni of the institution did not serve with the North Carolina troops, and we must keep their record also in view. From the best sources obtainable, the catalogues of the Philan- thropic and Dialectic Societies, it seems that not less than sixty- three Alumni attained the rank of colonel in the various regiments furnished by the different States to the Confederacy, and that not less than thirty became lieutenant-colonels.

IX. THE ALUMNI IN BATTLE.

I laving taken this general survey of the power and influence \\ielded by University men in public affairs in i86o-'6i, and of the higher positions in the army of the Confederate States filled by them,