Harnett County NcArchives Military Records.....Staff, Drum Major's 1896
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Daily Charlotte Observer
8 Jan 1896

A Drum Major's Staff

In the spring of 1862, Lieut. James N. Turner, with a squad of Company B 
(Iredell county), Second North Carolina Calvary, captured the drum major and 
associates of the Second Maryland Regiment, who had stopped to dine with a 
friend (?) near Pollocksville, NC. My recollection is that Lieut. Turner sent 
the staff home as a trophy. He was afterwards promoted to the captaincy of 
Company D (Cumberland and Harnett counties), and was killed in the fall of 
1864. His home was in Harnett county and he was engaged in the survey for the 
Western North Carolina Railroad at the time of his enlistment.

Any information concerning the staff will be thankfully received by B.L. 
Bingham, corner Water and South streets, Baltimore, or the undersigned.

The gavel of the Masonic lodge near Pollocksville, NC, of 1862, can be 
restored if desired. Col. Taylor, Second Maryland Regiment, Baltimore, Md. has 
it.

W.A. Graham
Machpelah, NC
January 5, 1896


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