Letter Hillsborough Military Academy, Col/ Tew. 26th North Carolina

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Letter Hillsborough Military Academy, Col/ Tew. 26th North Carolina:
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16 year old...Cadet Benjamin McLauchlin
Hillsboro Military Academy Letter Oct. 4, 1860

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. \"I believe “Old Trip” (Col. Tew) is getting stricter and stricter every ...day. I tell you he puts some of them fellows through, he had two fitly fellows imprisoned for the last day or Two for leaving the Barracks they said they went off to gather Hickory nuts, I do not know what he will do with them. 3 or 4 have left since I came here and I think some more will have to leave soon from the way they are carrying on, 4 fresh came since I came here…..\"
HMA in any form is a difficult catch. The fact he mentions Colonel Charles C Tew is cool, and a new Nickname for TEW \"Old Trip\"?? first I\'ve heard that one. Assuming, he tripped on the Parade Ground at HMA, his cadets were giving him hell. For the most part his Cadets LOVED HIM... As we know, Colonel Tew went down at Antietam, body never recovered. Cadet McLauchlin went on the join the \"Pee Dee Wildcats\" 26th North Carolina as a First Sergeant and succumbed to Typhoid fever in 1862. From HDS..Benjamin McLauchlin
Residence Cumberland County NC; 17 years old.
Enlisted on 7/1/1861 at Anson County, NC as a 1st Sergeant.
On 7/1/1861 he mustered into \"K\" Co. NC 26th Infantry
He died of disease on 4/14/1862 at Kinston, NC
(Typhoid fever)

At Kinston, on Tuesday, the 11th inst, First Sergeant BENJAMIN McLAUCHLIN, of
Cumberland City.
We have no reason, whatever, to doubt, that our youthful hero has exchanged a world of wars
and hardships for an eternity of bliss. He was both devoted to his county and to his God. During
his illness he became delirious, and it is said the last thing he did was to call the roll, form his
company, and march it off, then instantly breathed his last. His comrades deeply mourn his loss,
and fear they have no other in the company that can fill his place as well as he did. All his
friends in Anson sympathize with his bereaved parents and relatives; for his gentle virtues had
won a deep place in the hearts of all who knew him.
He is gone - he is gone-
The chivalrous and brave -
The young and ardent soldier
is dreaming in his grave,
He is gone - he is gone -
With glory on his name,
In the budding of his laurels
And the morning of his fame
He has gone- he has gone -
The reward of the just to reap,
Too pure for earth’s marshalled hosts,
Jesus has call’d him to glory.
Yes, he is resting - he is now resting
‘Neath a sky that’s ever blue.
And Heaven never smiled on one
More noble, patriotic, true.
Marie