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 THE WAR ANT) ITS BHR01 7.-, the Camp of Instruction near Raleigh. 1!'' wu elected Major of the l»t North Carolina Volunteers, and with that gallant regiment won his first lanreli on the memorable field of Bethel, Juno 10th, 1861. Shortly after the battle of Tiethel he waa elected Lieutenant-Colonel of tip- 28th'|North Carolina regiment, and subsequently, for gallant and n c rito riooa conduct, he was made a Brigadier-General, and placed in command <>f t li . • -.h brigade of the Light Division. He received his appointment as Brigadier on the 1st of November, 1862, as the successor of the lamented General L. 0*B. Branch, of North Carolina. At the head of a brigade of noble tr banner> bear upon theii the names nf nearly twenty 1 BOW manfully battling for the independence of the South.