. Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 . and ran fnr the Dearing got across the moat and into the fort aheadof me, and jumped on tbe big gun as if he were going to spikeit, wlicii T met an officer at the gate and dcMiianded his surren-der. He asked to be allowed to surrender to some higherofiieer. I called General Dearing and he told him to surren-der to me. He thereupon handed over his swor<l and ])isr()l,wliieh 1 kept during the war. I think he belonged to ihc in-fantry. He had on his overcoat. So tliere were two cap
. Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 . and ran fnr the Dearing got across the moat and into the fort aheadof me, and jumped on tbe big gun as if he were going to spikeit, wlicii T met an officer at the gate and dcMiianded his surren-der. He asked to be allowed to surrender to some higherofiieer. I called General Dearing and he told him to surren-der to me. He thereupon handed over his swor<l and ])isr()l,wliieh 1 kept during the war. I think he belonged to ihc in-fantry. He had on his overcoat. So tliere were two captures of tlic sauic fort, separated byan interval of two or tliree liours. General Dearing (Colonel at Plymouth), snl)se(iuenlly fell6 A]n-il, 18ri5, at High Bridge, on the retreat towards Ap-pomattox Court House, in a hand-to-hand contest with ]\IajorRead, of G(meral Ords stafi, both antagonists going downtogether. The big gun was natiirally llic cliiof attraction tohim, and of course he Indievcd to the dav of his deatli that his ItHS new YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. AdTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS,. r
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