Excerpt from Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1888 During the year the Guard has made gratifying progress, in numbers, drill, discipline, equipment; and has conformed more closely than ever before to the requirements of law. Captain Woodruff, in his report to the War Department, pays this well deserved tribute Degrees I do not believe there is to be found in the United States a better set of men, better armed and equipped than the North Carolina State Guard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.