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In April 1861 a light artillery battery known as the “Ellis Light Artillery” or the “Ellis Flying Artillery” organized at Raleigh. (The company named itself for North Carolina’s governor, John Willis Ellis.) One of its first acts was to elect as…

Jechonias P. Willis (left), a twenty-two-year-old clerk, and Thomas Lindsay (right), residents of Carteret County, enlisted on May 25 and July 15, respectively, in a three-years company known as the “Topsail Rifles.” The “Rifles” mustered into…