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ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
COLONEL W. J. MARTIN and
CAPTAIN E. R. OUTLAW, Co, C.
The Eleventh North Carolina Regiment was the successor of
the First North Carolina Volunteers, the Bethel Regiment. This
latter was mustered intoservice for six months and upon its dis-bandment
was reorganized for the war as the Eleventh Regi-ment
North Carolina Troops, which was composed in considerable
degree of the material of the Bethel Regiment.
The reorganization took place at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh,
March 31, 1862, by the election of C. Leventhorpe, Colonel;
W. A. Owens, Lieutenant-Colonel, and W. A. Eliason, Major.
Major Eliason was at the same time elected to the Lieutenant-
Colonelcy of the Forty-ninth, and accepted it, and Captain W". J.
Martin, of the Twenty-eighth, was elected Major in his stead,
and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel May 6th, when Lieu-tenant-
Colonel "Owens was elected Colonel of the Fifty-third.
At the same time. May 6th, Captain E. A. Ross, of Company
A, was promoted to the Majority.
The regiment, therefore, went into service early in May, among
the troops for the defense of Wilmington, with the following
organization :
Colonel, Collett Leventhorpe; Lieutenant-Colonel, W. J. Mar-tin;
Major, Egbert A. Ross; Surgeon, John Wilson; Assistant
Surgeon, J. Parks McCombs; Assistant Quartermaster, John N.
Tate; Assistant Commissary of. Subsistence, Pat. J. Lowrie;
Adjutant, H. C. Lucas; .Chaplain, A. S. Smith.
Company A—Captain, William L. Hand, of Mecklenburg
county; First Lieutenant, Charles W. Alexander; Second Lieu-
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