Jesse Barnes spent the months after the Battle of Manassas, until March 1862 at Camp Pickens in Manassas, Virginia. The regiment saw its first major action at the Battle of Seven Pines when they attacked and carried Casey's Redoubt. Jesse was killed leading his men into action there.
He had made out his will just six weeks earlier and he had requested that if he was killed that his body be returned home for burial next to his father Elias.
His younger brother William remained with the 4th North Carolina and later became its adjutant on the Field and Staff as aide-de-camp for General Bryan Grimes. he survived the war and later was in the Wilson Camp of the United Confederate Veterans.
Later the Sons of Confederate Veterans.in Wilson was named after Captain Barnes. Jesse's name also appears on the memorial for Confederate dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
--Old secesh
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