William Howey (August 30, 1819-April 10, 1873), a Mecklenburg County farmer, and his eldest son, John Hoyle Howey (August 28, 1844- January 18, 1911), enlisted together as privates in Company K ( the “Mecklenburg Beauregards”), 30th Regiment N.C. Troops, on September 13, 1861. The rigors of camp life proved too harsh for the elder Howey, and he was discharged on February 13, 1862, suffering from “dropsy.”
John served until captured at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, probably when Federal troops overran the position of the 30th North Carolina in “Bloody Lane.” On the following day, he entered U.S. General Hospital No. 1 in Frederick, Maryland, but it is unknown whether from a wound or illness. John was paroled on September 27, 1862. Presumably, he was also exchanged, for he returned to duty with the regiment before January 1, 1863. He was hospitalized again in May or June 1863, cause unknown, but was present on all other surviving muster rolls of his company until wounded at the Battle of Third Winchester, Virginia, September 19, 1864. John returned to duty on an unspecified date and was one of the 153 members of the 30th North Carolina to surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Both father and son are clad in identical six-button sack coats with black epaulets, as called for in the North Carolina adjutant general's 1861 uniform regulations. They are holding M1816 or M1842 U.S. Muskets, caliber .69. Their belt plates are rectangular, either plain or with an indistinct device.
Image: Ambrotype in the possession of David King, descendant.
Source: Greg Mast, State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers, Volume 1, p.188 (image on page 176).
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Private James Matthew Parker, Company A (the "Sampson Rangers"), 30th Regiment N.C. Troops
During the advance of Ramseur’s Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville on the morning of May 3,1863, General Ramseur encountered a battery commanded by Major William J. Pegram of Virginia. The major applied for infantry support for his battery, and the general obliged by detaching the 30th Regiment N.C. Troops, commanded by Colonel Francis Parker. As the Confederate line moved further east, the necessity for Parker’s support ended, and the colonel moved the 30th North Carolina at an oblique angle to his left, so that the regiment would join the right of the brigade.
As the 30th North Carolina approached, an enemy attack was threatening the brigade’s right and rear. Parker’s command was squarely on the flank of the attacking column and quickly repulsed it, taking several hundred prisoners. A later attack by the 30th North Carolina drove the Yankees further east, the regiment capturing an enemy battery.
Casualties in the 30th North Carolina were the least of any regiment in Ramseur’s Brigade, but were still quite severe: thirty-nine men were killed or mortally wounded in action, and eighty-one wounded. (The regiment lost no one captured.)
One of the wounded was Private James Matthew Parker of Company A (the “Sampson Rangers”). Parker was a resident of Sampson County and enlisted on September 1, 1861. Except for a twenty-five day furlough in November 1862, presumably for an illness, Parker served until his wounding at Chancellorsville. He returned to duty before September 1, 1863, and was marked present on the few surviving documents from his company that date from the latter part of the war. Parker was one of the 156 members of the 30th Regiment N.C. Troops who received paroles at Appomattox Court House. According to family tradition, he walked the entire distance from Appomattox to his home in Sampson County.
Parker (November 8, 1835-April 15, 1904) is buried at McGee United Methodist Church, Clinton, Sampson County.
Image: N.C. Office of Archives and History.
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