{"id":211,"date":"2013-10-20T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2013-10-23T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:42:22","slug":"3rd-nc-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/3rd-nc-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd NC Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>3rd NC Volunteers [Colored Troops], Spanish American War<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>transcribed 3 Mar 2002 from various sources by Carson Turner; used with permission<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers mustered in on May 12, 1898 at\u00a0Fort Macon, North Carolina, as a Battalion, and then in July increased by seven companies to the 3rd NC Regiment. In September the Regiment moved to\u00a0Knoxville, Tennessee, and in November to Macon, Georgia. In Macon the 1st Army Corps (of which 3rd NC was a part) was alerted to prepare to proceed to Cuba, but on 8 February 1899 the Regiment (and most other volunteer regiments)\u00a0began the muster out of service. The 3rd NCV didn&#8217;t participate in the battles of the Spanish American War, but those men who gave of their liberty and freedoms,\u00a0if only for the preparation of war, are certainly worthy of our remembrances.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Joseph J. Hood, Company D<br \/>\nSergeant Terry White, Company D<br \/>\nCorporal James Pope, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Arthur Barnes, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Green Coleman, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Amziah Crews, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Alfred Faggart, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate George Harris, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate William Hammards, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Henry Ivey, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Allen Johnston, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Zebulon Lynn, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Edward Martin, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate George Miller, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate William Morrison, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate William Neil, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Samuel Wilson, Company D<br \/>\nPrivate Jessie L. Beatty, Company D (discharged 12\/19\/1898)<br \/>\nPrivate Robert Christian, Company D (discharged 1\/17\/1899)<br \/>\nPrivate Charley Greeley, Company G<\/p>\n<p>It seems clear that Company D was the &#8220;Concord&#8221; unit among the 3rd North Carolina Volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd NC Volunteers [Colored Troops], Spanish American War transcribed 3 Mar 2002 from various sources by Carson Turner; used with permission The 3rd Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers mustered in on May 12, 1898 at\u00a0Fort Macon, North Carolina, as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/3rd-nc-volunteers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/cabarrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}