Northampton County, NC - Military

William & Emmet Robinson Collection
Johnston County Heritage Center
Reference Box, P.C.1.1.

                   STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA

                              DEPARTMENT OF WAR AND MARINE,

                                    Raleigh, June 17th, 1861

    SIR: Your are hereby informed that the Governor has nominated, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Military Board has appointed
you a First Assistant Surgeon of the 5th Regiment of N.C. Volunteers.
You will immediately on the receipt hereof, please communicate through
the Surgeon General's office your acceptance or non-acceptance, and in
case of accepting, you will fill up and subscribe the certificate and 
oath-herewith, giving your name in full.

                                 Very Respectfully

                                       Warren Winslow

                                                  Sec'y.

To

Apt. Surgeon

       Walter B. Mott, M.D.

          5th Regiment N.C. Volunteers

                Garysburg N.C.

   NOTE--Company officers are subject to the following provision in the 
         above act:

  Sec. 6 Be it further enacted, that the Governor shall by and with the 
advice and consent of the Military Board, appoint the commissioned officers
provided for in this act (except the aids-de-camp.) The company officers 
shall be appointed and ordered to recruit their respective companies, and 
as soon as they can complete the same to sixty-four privates, with the
required non-commissioned officers, and report the-fact to the adjutant
and inspector-general, then the commissions shall be issued and bear date
from the time of their appointment. Should any captain fail to raise his 
company in a reasonable time the Governor, by and with the consent of the
military board, may revoke his appointment. 

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