CHAPTER XVII.
THE limits of this sketch of the North Carolina troops forbid a detailed account of the services of the four regiments in the Tennessee and Georgia campaigns. These regiments were, so far as official reports seem to show, the Twenty-ninth, Lieut. -Col. B. S, Proffitt; the Thirty-ninth, Col. D. Coleman; the Fifty-eighth, Maj. T. F. Dula, and the Sixtieth, Col. J. B. Palmer. For awhile Colonel Palmer was in command of Reynolds brigade. During his absence, that regiment was commanded by Lieut. -Col. J. T. Weaver, whose gallant life was given up for his State.
Through all the trying marches, hungry days and nights, stubborn fighting and nerve-testing vicissitudes, these noble men kept close to their colors, and illustrated by their patient endurance and cheerful obedience that they were of the heroic clay from which soldiers are made.
After Hoke s division was recalled from New Bern to engage with Beauregard s army at Drewry s bluff, there were no military operations, except of minor importance, in North Carolina, until the first attack on Fort Fisher.
Colonel Lamb, the heroic defender of the fort, thus describes his works: "At this time Fort Fisher extended across the peninsula 682 yards, a continuous work, mount ing twenty heavy guns, and having two mortars and four
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