Now I'm just reposting the same evidence I posted earlier in the thread:
State of North Carolina, Executive Department,
Raleigh, N. C, November 23, 1865.
Colonel : Your communication to the governor of yesterday's date, making inquiry relative to the organizations of State troops in this State during the late rebellion, is to hand, and I have the honor, in answer, to state that there were two classes of troops belonging to and retained by the State during the rebellion, to wit : " North Carolina State troops," about twenty-two hundred (2,200) in number, consisting of a battalion of artillery commanded by Major Alexander MeRoe, one regiment of infantry commanded by Colonel James W. Hinton, one battalion of infantry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Whit-ford, and two or three detached companies in eastern North Carolina, kept regularly in service, paid, clothed, and subsisted by the State, (except when temporarily under the command of so-called confederate general officers,) and took no oath except allegiance to the State authorities. These were entirely under the command of the governor of the State and subject to no other authority except by his order, temporarily. He could not transfer them. The other class was the entire militia of the State consolidated into an organization called "a guard for home defence." These, by the act of the legislature, consisted of every white male person not enrolled in con- federate service, between eighteen and fifty yeai-s, except the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of the State, and were liable to be called into active service by the governor for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, not to go beyond the limits of the State and not qualified by oath at all. They were not transferable to any other authority.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EUGENE GRISSOM, Aide- de- Camp.