Generation No. 1

1.  NOAH F.5 MUSE  (JESSE F.4, JAMES BRAZZLE3, JESSE FRANKLIN2, JAMES1) was born 1834 in 
Moore Co., N.C., and died February 02, 1864 in Newport Barracks, N.C. (Killed in Battle).

Notes for NOAH F. MUSE:
Noah F. Muse, born in 1834 to Jesse F. and Nancy Muse
                        age 16 years and attending school in November, 1850

     "These families lived around Calvary Church and between
that and Buffalo Creek, northwest of Carthage. " 
 
Source:   "Miscellaneous Ancient Records of Moore County ",
               November 13, 1850, Moore County Census, page 271, #1106
               by Rassie E. Wicker



Noah F. Muse,  1st Lieutenant - Military Service Record:

     Born in Chatham County and appointed 3rd Lieutenant
     to rank from August 3, 1862.  Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant
     September 18, 1862 and to 1st Lieutenant October 16, 1862.
     Killed in action at Newport Barracks, N.C., February 2, 1864.
    (Company E, 63rd Regiment North Carolina Troops, 5th Regiment
     North Carolina Cavalry)

Source:   "North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865, A Roster, Vol II Cavalry "
               compiled by Louis H. Manarin
                Publication of the North Carolina Department of Archives
                and History



Noah F. Muse - Military Service Record

Residence:  Chatham County (?)  

Enlisted as a Private on 03 August 1862
Enlisted in Company E, 5th Cavalry Regiment North Carolina on 03 August 1862.
Promoted to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class on 18 September 1862
Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on 18 October 1862
Killed Company E, 5th Cavalry Regiment North Carolina on 02 February 1864
in Newport Barracks, NC



I have acquired a Copy of a Letter written by Noah F. Muse to his
friend Artemus S. Caddell who was serving in Company H, 26th
Infantry Regiment North Carolina (Moore Independents).  The cover
is addressed to A. S. Caddell Esq., Carolina City In Care of
Capt. W. P. Martin 26th Regiment, postmarked Oct 8 Carthage N.C., 
Paid 5 :

Artemus S. Caddell from Carthage survived the War as did his brother Cornelius
Dowd Caddell, who also served in Co. H, 26th Infantry Regiment NC.

(Captain William Pinckney Martin, residence Moore County, enlisted as a Captain on 
 13 May 1861 at the age of 43.  Commission in Company H, 26th Infantry Regiment
 North Carolina on 03 June 1861.  Killed Company H, 26th Infantry Regiment North
 Carolina on 14 March 1862 in New Berne, NC.  After Capt. Martin was killed, 1st
 Lieutenant Clement Dowd from Moore County was promoted to Captain)



N.C., Moore County  Oct 6th day / 61

Old Friend,

I take my pen in hand to drop you a few 
lines  I am well and all is well and all
the neighbors is all well.  Tim  I have nothing
to write that will amuse you _____(?).  Times
is hard up here in Moore County such times I never
experienced in my born days people is hardly like
they use they was.  Tim  I have wished 100 times
I had a went with you  I know if you enjoy
yourself any you see as much or more
pleasure than people does up her  people is stird
up so Bomable and they are Just a getting
_____(?) well,  Tim  I,  S--------R  well there is no use in
Swearing now but I don't know what to do--------
I don,t know whither to Volunteer or to ---------
try to make a farm the ensuing year I think
I know which would be the best for our future
welfare would be to go and fight the Yankees
I have rented out my Stutts place to A. W. Maness
again  I've only got the _____(?) place to work in
_____(?) though I would tend a part of that
and put me up a still but times is so -----
troublesome I am a feard to go in to anything
that takes money  Tim  I would be more than
glad to see you  I could tell you some monstrous ups
& downs certain  I staid at your fathers house 
last night me and Dr. Aaron, talked over old
times they are well,  Captin Scott he be bad off to go
a. oppossum hunting.  Well  AS  I got a letter
on the 4 from you  I was so glad to here from you
I get to standing on the past untill sometimes
I am (a) good notion to start for you  I would like
be with you  ASC  very well if I could fix
my arrangements to my notion  Tim
I cant fix my Mules of any where as I would 
like without giving them away  Riley's got more
than he wants to keep so has Pa  Commodore
is gone  Ashley is going to school though I think
we will have to go to fighting some where
from what I can heare of the war news Tim, it
is true I don,t much want to leave Rite off now
but I expect I will have to go soon some where
Me and C. D. Caddell was talkn that if we
had to go we wanted to go in your Company
if there was any chance to get in.  AS  I want
you to write me about the chance if we do
have to go, Tim, I want you to write News----
if the Malitia is called out Mr. T. W. Ritter is
Captain in Dist. No. 9 now I had just as leave go
with somebody-------  AS  don,t neglect writing all
about what the chance will be for if time gets mich
worse I tell you we will be off  _____(?)  Well  Tim
now for the galls  they all want to marry ___(?)the
worst(?)  they will take anybody in the shape of a
man  they are marrying rite peart now  Miss Mary
An McItosh  took a man Thursday night one _____(?)
Malcom Morrisson usses(?)  girls is all well & looks as
pretty as ever.  I charge among them a few Shure  A.S  I want
to know whats become of W.H.H.  Ive wrote 3 or 4 times
& can heare nothing of him if he is there ask him if he
remembers that big S____in(?), Esq. Benselam, I,ll  bet if he an't
too sick he Laughs  tell him I saw his bird & talked with her some
well  I  S-------R  I cant go about that old meating house without
I feel like I am lost and a heap other ways & feel sorter damp
about the eyes.  Write soon be shure to write as soon as this
gets to hand write a long letter & I will write you a letter so long as
you can remember  Your mose Truly,

Noah F. Muse   (Beautiful Signature)

(Spelling, Punctuation, and Capitals are exactly as they appear in the letter.  The
words I have not figured out yet have an under-line with question mark.  S------R,
I think stands for SWEAR.   "AS " is Artemus S., and ASC is Artemus S. Caddell. 
Tim is his nickname.)

Identities of some of the people named in the letter:

Riley is William Riley Muse, Noah's older brother.
  
Commodore is Commodore George Muse, Noah's younger
       brother who was serving as a Corporal in Company I, 
       2nd Cavalry Reg., NC, Promoted to Full Corporal on
       04 June 1863.  POW on 16 September 1863 at Culpeper
       Court House, VA.  Died of disease while a POW on 
       11 May 1865 in Elmira, NY.

Ashley is Ashley F. Muse, also a younger brother of Noah's, who 
       Enlisted as a Private in Company H, 26th Infantry Reg., NC
       on 13 March 1862.  Killed on 01 July 1863 in Gettysburg, PA
(Ashley Muse is mentioned as being killed on the first day of the
battle in the Joseph C. Fry Letter)

While not mentioned in the letter, Noah had another younger
brother, Archibald Buckley Muse, who served as a Private in 
Co. E, 5th Cavalry Reg. NC, was a POW confined on 12 September
1864 at Point Lookout, MD, Took Oath of Allegiance on 29 June 1865
at Point Lookout, MD and was Released.

W.H.H. is, I believe, William Henry Harrison Lawhon, born on 16 May 1841,
and a Student (Moore County), when he Enlisted as a Sergeant on 25 February 
1862 at the age of 20.  Promoted to Full Lieutenant 3rd Class on 16 April 1862.
Enlisted in Company D, 48th Infantry Regiment NC on 19 April 1862.  Promoted
to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class on 09 July 1862.  Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st
Class on 10 February 1863.  Promoted to Full Captain on 07 September 1863.
Surrendered on 09 April 1865 in Appomattox Court House, VA.

**Letter transcribed by Amy Sadler Seitz, Carthage, N.C. on September 17, 2003.
   The Original Letter is in the possession of a Collector in Ohio. The Research 
   above is mine alone, corrections are welcome.
   Ph:  910-949-2853  Email:  seitzamy@hotmail.com

More About NOAH F. MUSE:
Census: November 13, 1850, #1106, Around Calvary Church and between that and Buffalo Creek, 
northwest of Carthage, Moore Co., N.C., 16 years old.
Education: November 1850, Attended school within the year.