Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 17, 1861

Page 3

The 11^th Regiment—The eleventh North Carolina Regiment, now rendezvousing at Danville, elected for Field Officers Lieut. W. W. Kirkland, late of the United States army, Colonel; Capt. James M. Leach, Lieutenant Colonel; and Capt. M. Richardson, of the Military Institute in this place, Major. They will all doubtless make able and efficient officers. Col. Kirkland has had long experience in the service of the United States; Lieut. Col. Leach was two years at West Point; and Major Richardson has earned for himself a good reputation as a military teacher in the Institution here.

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]