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Hines James Thomas [Male] b. 1833 Northhampton County, NC - d. 1889

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James Thomas Hines (1833-1889)

Was born in 1833 in Northampton County North Carolina. He married Angeline Spiers. James and Angeline had four children. Elizabeth J. was born in Bertie County North Carolina in 1855. Angus Henderson was born on July 2, 1857 in Northampton County North Carolina. William P. was born in Northampton County North Carolina in 1859. Annie was born in born in 1869.

James and two of his brothers, John Henry (enlisted June 7, 1862) and George Washington enlisted in Company C. 3rd Battalion, North Carolina Light Artillery on February 28, 1862 in Wake County. Most of the 92 men that enlisted in Company C were from Herford and Bertie Counties. The unit suffered one desertion and seven deaths by disease before Confederate Muster. He mustered in as a Sergeant on March 27th, 1862 under the command of Captain Thomas Capehart Company C (Capehart's Battery) into state service at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh. Most Confederate batteries initially took the field with about 60 horses and 85 men, but the rigors of battle and disease forced many units to function with less most of the time.

North Carolina did not have the manufacturing capabilities like the one at Tredegar Iron Works of Richmond. It was necessary for the State to send newly formed batteries north to train near Richmond. On March 28th the battalion was ordered to Camp Lee for artillery training, just west of the city. The Tarheel artillery battalion was the only North Carolina artillery battalion to have been selected for such a prestigious assignment. The conditions at Camp Lee must have been somewhat spartan, since 12 men of the battalion died of disease in slightly less than five months.

From Camp Lee the battalion was ordered to Battery (redoubt No. 7) of the Richmond defenses. On June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee's forces attacked Fitz-John Porter's Federal V Corps near Mechanicsville Virginia, less than 6 miles from Reboubt No. 7. The sounds of battle could be clearly heard by the defenders in the fort, raising the prospect of fighting in the outskirts of Richmond. The forts around Richmond were the city's last line of defense and personnel manning them were ill-prepared to face a highly trained and well-equipped infantry force. On July 1, the retreating Union Army stopped at Malvern Hill to face the pursuing Confederates, and the bloody final engagement of the Seven Days' Battles were fought. As the conflict moved further from the Confederate Capital, the defenders in the Redoubts must have relaxed some, but the wagons transporting 20,000 dead and wounded through their lines to Richmond provided a stern reminder of the horrors of war.

On July 3rd, 1862 he was transferred to Company A of the same Battalion where he served as a Corporal. Still poised in the defenses of Richmond, the undersized battalion must have been anxious to get into action, and the chance finally came on August 20, 1862. Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, Chief of Artillery for the ANV ordered the 3rd Battalion to duty with Major General Lafayette McLaw's division. McLaws had just received orders to march to Hanover Junction, in conjunction with Robert E. Lee's movement to check Union Major General Pope's incursion into Northern Virginia. McLaws departed Richmond on the 23rd but the North Carolinians did not march with his command because they were waiting for harnesses for their horses. By September 9th 1862 the battalion had received all of its equipment but missed the battles of 2nd Manassas and Sharpsburg. On November 1, 1862 they moved toward Culpeper in order of march between the veteran battalions of Major William Nelson and Lieutenant Colonel Allen Sherod Cutts. Marching for Fredicksburg with the army on the 19th, the battalion would get its first taste of field duty in inclement weather. Within 15 miles of Fredericksburg, General Robert E. Lee's mindfulness of the weakened state of the defenses of Richmond resulted in an order on November 22, 1862 directing the battalion back to Richmond. The battalion had just spent almost three months with Lee's army and hadn't fired their guns in battle, or even unlimbered on a battlefield for that matter.

On March 10, 1863 Captain Julian G. Moore was ordered to assume command of Company C and was at Wilmington and remained there until November 1863 when it was moved to Fort Caswell, Brunswick County. In May of 1863 Company C had 2-12 pound howitzers and 2-6 pound pound guns and Caisons and 44 Horses.

On January 8, 1864 Company C was transferred from light artillery to heavy artillery service. On September 21, 1864 Captain Moore resigned and was replaced by Lieutenant John M. Sutton (Sutton's Battery). It remained at Fort Caswell until ordered to Fort Fisher (the largest Confederate fort) on December 24, 1864. The next day Company C was heavily engaged in the defense of the fort.

Fort Fisher protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmington traded cotton and tobacco in exchange for foreign goods like munitions, clothing and foodstuffs. This nourished both the southern states and General Robert E. Lee's forces in Virginia. Trade was based on the coming and going of steamer ships of British smugglers. These vessels were called "blockade runners" because they had to avoid the Union's imposed maritime barricade.

The first battle of Fort Fisher began at dawn on the morning of December 24, 1864. As a thick fog shrouds the ocean as the grand Union armada begins moving into battle position off Federal Point. A little after noon the union fleet (64 warships) opens the first bombardment of Fort Fisher. The USS Colorado alone, with 52 guns, has more armament than all of Fort Fisher (which mounts a mere 47 heavy guns and mortars). The Federal fleet boasts more than 600 cannons. The Union fleet pounds Fort Fisher with an unprecedented naval bombardment, firing roughly 10,000 rounds of solid shot and explosive shell. Colonel Lamb's headquarters building is destroyed, and Confederate barracks and various outbuildings are set ablaze. Confederate return fire finds its mark among the vessels of the fleet, and the massive shot-torn fort weathers the storm intact.

As day dawned on Christmas Eve, Captain Sutton's Company C was still stationed at Fort Caswell on Oak Island. Later in the day they were ordered to Fort Fisher, arriving at Battery Buchanan in the late afternoon but the bombardment kept them from marching to the fort until firing ceased at nightfall. Awestruck would probably best describe the feelings of Captain John A Sutton and the men of Company C, as they climbed up the steps leading to the parapet of Shepherd's Battery on the morning of December 25, 1864. Awaiting them in the first gun chamber of the battery were a10-inch Columbiad and an ancient 6.4-inch smoothbore that had been rifled and banded, with the second gun chamber holding two 8-inch smoothbore seaoast howitzers. Sutton's artillerists stood on the wood deck, about twenty-three feet above the sandy beach, with protective traverses on either side of the chambers that towered another ten feet above them.. On Christmas day about 10:20am the incessant naval bombardment of Fort Fisher resumes and Union warships hurl another 10,000 rounds upon the beleaguered bastion. Union infantry force lands but was effectively thwarted when Confederate reinforcements arrive and on December 27 Union forces withdraw. Manning the four guns in Shepherd's battery on the extreme left of the fort, Company C had ten men wounded and three of their guns disabled.

James Thomas Hines was admitted to a hospital in Wilmington on January 23, 1865 for two days. With the fall of Fort Fisher, Wilmington's days were numbered. About 6,600 Confederate troops under Major General Robert Hoke held Fort Anderson and a line of works that prevented the Federals from advancing up the Cape Fear River. A small detachment of Company C, under Lieutenant Alfred M. Dardlen, joined Companies A and B at Fort Anderson. Here the battalion was placed under command of Colonel John J. Hedrick, 40th Regiment N.C. Troops. On February 19 Fort Anderson was evacuated after a spirited engagement, and the units retired to Town Creek where they halted to engage the advancing army before continuing the retreat. Retiring to Wilmington, the troops under Colonel Hedrick united with General Braxton Bragg's command and continued to retire westward. During the night of February 21-22, General Braxton Bragg ordered the evacuation of Wilmington, burning cotton, tobacco, and government stores. On March 7 the Union Advance was stopped by Hoke's and Hagood's divisions under General Braxton Bragg's command at Southwest Creek below Kinston. On the 8th the Confederates attempted to seize the initiative by attacking the Union flanks. After intial success, the Confederate attacks stalled because of faulty communications. On March 9th the Union forces were reinforced and beat back Bragg's renewed attacks on the 10th after heavy fighting. Bragg withdrew across the Neuse River and was unable to prevent the fall of Kinston on March 14th. Total forces engaged here were 12,000 Union and 8,500 Confederate (1,500 causalities).

The Company C battalion was engaged on the field at Bentonville, North Carolina on March 19, 1865. This was the largest land battle every fought in North Carolina and was the last major Confederate offensive of the Civil War.

In March of 1865 Union General William T. Sherman and 60,000 Federal troops were in North Carolina. Sherman was marching his troops north from Fayettesville. His goal was to march to Virginia and join forces with General Grant. The Union men were divided into two wings of 30,000 men. Confederate General Joseph E. Johnson was in command of about 20,000 Confederate forces. On March 18th Johnson received a message from Lieutenant General Wade Hampton telling of making contact with one wing of Sherman's army.

On March 19 Johnson's troops charged as the Union army marched on Goldsboro Road, two miles south of Bentonville. They attacked the Federal left wing but failed to overrun the Union line.

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