An “Independent Home Guard” Company of seventy-five men, composed of men over forty-five years of age, was also organized:
Dr. J. A. Urquhart, Captain;
Dr. R. A. Ware, F. C. Johnson and Wmn. B. Langdon, Lieutenants;
F. M. Brooks, W. A. Douglass, B. S. Hardaway, John S. Allen and Charles Mims, Sergeants;
N. L. Howard, W. L. Stapler, C. E. Johnson and J. I. Lovelace, Corporals;
H. Middlebrook, Treasurer;
R. P. Spencer, Secretary.

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