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THE FIRST NORTH CflROLIHfl
SOLDIER VHO DIED.
By E. H. BRADLEY, Private Company A, Bethel Regiment.
The first soldier killed in battle on the Confederate side
was, as is well known, Henry L. Wyatt, of Company A,
Bethel Regiment. Three times as many men died in hospi-tal
as were killed on the battlefield, but it is not so well known
that the first soldier from jSI^orth Carolina who lost his life
for the Confederacy was James Hudson, of Company B
(Hornet's K^est Eifles), of the same regiment.
The "Pettigrew Hospital" (as it was afterwards called),
was the first military hospital that was organized in the State
of Xorth Carolina during the war between the States. It
was located on the old Fair Grounds, east of Baleigh, near
the present "Soldiers' Home," and in the house formerly oc-cupied
by the keeper of the Fair Grounds, which house is
still standing and is occupied by a colored family.
It was organized by the late Dr. E. Burke Haywood indi-vidually,
and not by the State, as many may think. Dr.
Haywood's memory is revered by uiany an old soldior. who
was relieved and saved from an untimely death by his gre.•!^
medical skill, love and spnpathy. Dr. Haywood was greatly
assisted by W. H. Dodd, Esq., as druggist, whose pleasant
smiles and persuasive words would make the pills disappenr
easier, let them be ever so bitter. How many (except the
oldest citizens) remember Bill Dodd as a pill roller ?
The first Begimental Hospital Avas organized by Dr. Peter
E. Hines, then of I^ew Bern, now of this city.
The company of which I was a member, "Edgecombe
Guards," arrived in Kaleigh on 30 April, 1861, from Fort
Macon, where we were first ordered by the Governor.
I was just recovering from the measles when I took sev'^re
cold from exposure, incident to camp life (my camp was
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