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Re: Silver Grey's/Lee's Company Local Defense

Colonel Stephen Lee [father of Stephen D. Lee] formed Lee's Company (believe April/May 1864), called the Silver Greys, of the North Carolina Local Defense Troops.
(Colonel Lee entered West Point in 1819 with the class of 1823, he stood 5th in his class after two years and dropped out sometime later before completing his third year)

"His training of the aging men was so effective that on April 6, 1865, fewer than three hundred of them repulsed a brigade of more than a thousand Union soldiers marching from Tennesee."
[Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, H. G. Jones, Caitlin D. Jones, K. Randell Jones p. 104]

http://books.google.com/books?id=337AcJyhX40C&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Silver+Greys+North+Carolina+Local+Defense&source=web&ots=ZOkCnGtyDv&sig=OPJyONXcMaJIyTg8jNPNidgNkqU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA104,M1

I am able to access the Compiled Service Records for Captain Lee's Company Local Defense (Silver Greys).

If you have a specific soldier, I could do a lookup for you.

George Martin

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