Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
July 10, 1861
Page2
THE
SIXTH REGIMENT
The
sixth Regiment, which has been recruited under the efficient and liberal
management of Colonel Charles F. Fisher, left the Company’s Shops in Alamance
on Monday morning last in a special train, for the rest of the war. A large portion of the ladies and citizens of
the town, and many from the country around, assembled at the depot in this
place to cheer them as they passed. The
train went by about 12 o’clock.
We
copy from the State Journal the following list of officers:
Charles
F. Fisher, Colonel
Wm.
T. Dortch, Lieutenant Colonel
Charles
E. Lightfoot, Major
A.
M. Nesbitt, Surgeon
J.
A. Caldwell, Assistant Surgeon
C.
A. Henderson, Second Assistant Surgeon
Houston B. Lowry,
Adjutant
Company
A.—Samuel S. Kirkland, Captain; J. C. Turner, Thomas M. Prince and A. M.
Kirkland, Lieutenants
Company
B.—Robert F. Webb, Captain; W. R. Parrish, William E. M’Mannen and W. P.
Mangus, Lieutenants
Company
C.—Wm. J. Freeland, Captain; W. J. H. Durham, W. W. Guess and Evans Turner,
Lieutenants
Company D.—S. M’D. Tate, Captain; Cameron Pearson,
Neil Ray and John Carson, Lieutenants
Company
E.—J. E. Avery, Captain; Alphonso C. Avery, James Burns and John A. M’Pherson,
Lieutenants
Company
F.—James W. Wilson, Captain; Robert N. Carter, Benjamin F. White and Henry C. Dixon, Lieutenants
Company
G.—James A. Craig, Captain; Benjamin B. Smith, W. B. Lewis and J. T.
Rasborough, Lieutenants
Company
H.—Alfred A. Mitchell, Captain; Levi S. Walker, Quentin T. Anderson and Jerry
A. Lea, Lieutenants
Company I.—Richard
A. York, Captain; M. W. Page, W. B. Allen and M. R. Barber, Lieutenants
Company
K.—James A. Lea, Captain; James S. Vincent, Calvin N. Robey and Samuel J.
Crawford, Lieutenants
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
