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"Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865," edited by Walter Clark. An early reviewer wrote, "Regimental sketches vary in quality, but the work fully merits Douglas Southall Freeman's classification as one of the most indispensable works for the Army of Northern Virginia." Published in 5 volumes in 1901 at Raleigh, North Carolina, this collection has been reprinted in 1982 and 1991. A rare original set may cost upwards of $ 1,200.
"The History of Lane's North Carolina Brigade," by James M. Lane. Published in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume VIII, Numbers 10,11, and 12, October, November, and December 1880.
"1st North Carolina (later the 11th) Infantry Regiment: "More Terrible than Victory: North Carolina's Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861-1865," by Craig Champan. (see the 11th Listed below)
1st North Carolina Colored Infantry Website.
3rd North Carolina Union Mounted Infantry: Organized at Knoxville, Tenn., June, 1864. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, August, 1865.
SERVICE.-- Scout and patrol duty about Knoxville, Tenn., and in East Tennessee until December, 1864. Scout from Morristown, Tenn., into North Carolina June 13-July 15, 1864. Camp Vance June 28. Russellville, Tenn., October 28. Big Pigeon River November 5-6. Moved to Paint Rock December 7. Expedition into Western North Carolina March 21-April 25, 1865. Moved to Boone, N. C., April 6, and to Asheville, N. C., April 27-30. Duty in North Carolina and East Tennessee until August, 1865. Mustered out August 8, 1865
4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops Website.
5th North Carolina Senior Reserves Infantry Website
6th North Carolina, "The Bloody Sixth: The Sixth North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A.," by Richard W. Iobst. One of the most famous line regiments in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, this fighting regiment brigaded at one time or another with such fighting regiments as the 7th and 8th Georgia, the 2nd and 11th Mississippi, and the 4th Alabama. In sad irony, the 2nd Colonel of the 6th North Carolina, William Dorsey Pender and the 3rd Colonel, Isaac Avery, were both mortally wounded at Gettysburg, on July 2nd, 1863. The Campaigns in which the 6th North Carolina distinguished itself with gallantry include: 1st Manassas, Gaines' Mill, 2nd Mantissas, South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Plymouth, Bethesa Church, Cold Harbor, Fort Stedman, and the Retreat to Appomattox Court-House. Originally released 1965, this reprint of 493 pages, with roster, costs $ 40.00.
6th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment Re-enactors Website
6th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment
6th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment-another
7th North Carolina Regiment State Troops
7th North Carolina State Troops, Company F Re-enactors Website - Rowan County
Why can't I find anything on the 10th NC Regiment Company D My Greatgrandfather was a Confederat Solder from Columbus County he has the CSA tomb stone and this is what is on it but can't find anything..His name is G.C. Ned Stephens born 1944 in South Carolina. Thanks if you can help ponice@ffast.net
11th North Carolina State Troops, "More Terrible Than Victory: North Carolina's Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861-1865," by Craig S. Chapman. Check out Craig's website at:
11th North Carolina State Troops
11th North Carolina Infantry Re-Enactors Website
12th North Carolina Infantry Website
14th North Carolina, "The Anson Guards - Company "C" Fourteenth Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1865," by Major William Alexander Smith, 14th North Carolina. Originally published in 1914, the 14th North Carolina fought at Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Antietam, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and Gettysburg. Reprinted in 1978 by Broadfoot Publishing, 368 pages costs $ 40.00.
16th North Carolina, "History of the 16th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War," by George H. Mills. Mills' memories cover the organization of this unit at Raleigh, North Carolina until its parole at Appomattox and covers 23 major battles including Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Fort Stedman. 1992 reprint by Edmonston Publications, this 88 page paperback costs about $ 10.00.
21st North Carolina Infantry Website.
23rd North Carolina Infantry, "Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards (Company D), Twenty-third North Carolina Infantry," by Captain H. C. Wall. The 23rd North Carolina served in Garland's, Iverson's and R.D. Johnson's Brigades in the divisions of D.H. Hill and R.E. Rodes. In early 1864, they were sent to North Carolina to recruit and arrest deserters, finishing the war in the trenches at Petersburg and then at Appomattox CourtHouse. Originally published in 1876 by Raleigh Publishing, this 100 page reprint costs $ 15.00.
23rd North Carolina State Troops, Company D - Re-enactors Website
# 2 23rd North Carolina State Troops, Company D - Re-enactors Website
24th North Carolina Infantry Website.
25th North Carolina Infantry Website - 25th NC Re-enactors Website
25th North Carolina Infantry Website
26th North Carolina Infantry Website
27th North Carolina Infantry, Company D Re-enactors' Website
28th North Carolina Infantry, "Voices from Cemetery Hill," by Allen Spear. Originally published around 1997 by Overmountain Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. The book contains the letters and diaries of his family member, Lt. Col. Asbury Spear, who commanded the 28th from Gettysburg until killed at Reams Station, VA, in August, 1864. (Thanks to Michael W. Taylor, publisher of the 30th and 34 NC Regiments for submitting this information to me about this book).
Interview by Prof. Jason B. Deyton November 15, 1930 of Stephen Morgan Willis, 6/10/1849 - 2/28/1934 Comoany I, North Carolina 29th Regiment Uncle Stephen M. Wills is one of the few surviving Confederate verterans in Mitchell County. He is now 86 years old and is very strong for a man of his age. His eyes seem to be as clear and sparkling as those of the average man of half his age, and his mind is just as clear. The interview with him was very pleasant because his answers to questions were direct, and there was no evidence of wandering or rambling from the point under discussion. skip to Civil War Uncle Stephen was especially clear on the issues of the Civil War and his activities as a soldier in that war. He states that Yancey County was predominatly loyal to the Union, that very few favored disiunion. He does not recall that anyone voted for Linclon, and the prevailing opinion was that if Lincoln was elected, disumion would follow. Even after the election of Lincoln the majority was opposed to secesion. "When the state seceded, we submitted," Uncle Stephen said, and thus was the best ststement of the situation I ever heard. The Negro was not a vital tooic of discussion amoung the people of the mounhtains, they cared little about the questionj of slavery because it affected the lives of so few people. There were just a few slave-holders in the entire county, amoung them being the Penlands, the Greenlees, and Youngs. These, Uncle Stephen thought possiblr favored secession. After the war, however, the issue was clear; no one favored disunion, everyone was loyal to the Union. It was not until after the war that bitterness characteristic of the struggle developed in the county. For some time afterward it was dangerous for those who had fought in the Lost Cause to come in contact with those who supported the Union army. They were sure tobe insulted and a fight would ensue. This bitterness was accentuated, too, by the fact that those who fought in the Union army had deserted those who fought for the cause of the Confederacy until the end. Uncle Stephen was a member of Company I, twenty-ninth North Carolina Regiment. This regiment was made up largely from Yancey county, which at that time included what is now Mitchell County, and a large part of Avery. John Blalock was captian of the company; Henry Wilson, first lietenant, Mac Wilson seconf lietenant. Major Zeke Hampton commanded the batrtalion; Colonel Proffitt was the commander of the regiment. The regiment was first placed on duty in Ashville. Later it joined to General Johnston's armey and had as its special task that of checking General Sherman in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas. Uncle Stephen was in many skirmishes, and in some very important engagements, amoung them Kenesaw Mointian and the siege of Atlanta. After the siege of Atlanta, Uncle Stephen was detailed as captian of teh company to a Spanish fort in Florida. Here he was captured by the Union army and was held prisoner for six weeks. His prison expierences are amoung the most bitter of the war. He was guarded ny negros who had escaped from slavery to join the Union army, and who treated their captives cruelly. The food was not plentiful, a cracker and a pint of mush constituted a day's rations, and the negro guards were abusive in speech. From here Uncle Stephen was taken around the Gulf and up the Mississippi to Vicksberg, where he was paroled. He returned on June 15, 1865, five days after his 21st bithday to find hard times. hard feelings, and nothing to compensate hin for four years in the army. It would take him 10 years to get back to the point at which he started 4 yeares ago. Avery W. Willis III 196 Quails Trail Thousand Oaks, CA 91361
28th North Carolina Infantry, "The Twenty Eighth North Carolina: A Civil War History and Roster," by Frances H. Casstevens. Originally published in 2008, illustrated, with maps, roster, appendices and index. Contains 303 pages, published by McFarland Publishing, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640, for $ 55 plus shipping.
30th North Carolina Infantry, "To Drive the Enemy from Southern Soil: The Letters of Colonel Francis Marion Parker and the History of the Thirtieth Regiment North Carolina Troops," by Michael W. Taylor. Originally published in 1998 by Morningside Bookstore.
34th North Carolina Infantry, "The Cry is War, War, War: The Civil War Correspondence of Lieutenants Burwell Thomas Cotton and George Job Huntley, Thirty-fourth Regiment North Carolina Troops, Pender-Scales Brigade of the Light Division, Stonewall Jackson's and A.P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.," edited by Michael W. Taylor. 194 pages, maps, 1994 issue by Morningside Bookstore, cost $ 30.00. The 34th Regiment North Carolina Infantry was involved in almost every battle of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the 7 Days Campaign to the fall of Richmond. Brigaded under the aggressive and ambitious General William Dorsey Pender in the renowned Light Division of A.P. Hill, it could hardly have done otherwise. Yet first hand accounts of the fighting, marching, and camp life of the regiments are quite scarce.
35th North Carolina Infantry, "A Captain's War: The Letters and Diaries of William H. S. Burgwyn, Thirty-fifth North Carolina Infantry," by William H.S. Burgwyn. Edited by Herbert M. Schiller. William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn (1845-1913), the son of a wealthy Southern planter of Welsh descent, joined the 35th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in 1861 at the tender age of 15 and served almost the four years' duration of the Civil War. He participated in numerous battles, including Antietam and Cold Harbor, and finished the war in a federal prison camp. Burgwyn eventually attained the rank of captain, and his writings are a day-to-day record of Confederate Army life that was occasionally exciting, often tedious, and seldom easy. Dr. Herbert Schiller, author of the acclaimed Bermuda Hundred Campaign, has incorporated the surviving four of six diaries, which are currently housed in the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, with extant Burgwyn family letters. His account illustrates the Civil War's impact on an individual, a generation, and society at large. Interspersed throughout the text are contemporary photographs and maps that enhance Schiller's thoughtful presentation. While the diary entries are terse, the letters are much more detailed and emotional in their descriptions of battles, fortifications, and even social events. Burgwyn's youthful zest is engaging, and his candid depiction of military endeavors in letters home reveals a complete lack of censorship unknown in the 20th century. The familiar concerns and devotion exhibited will evoke the reader's sympathy. He reveals many mundane aspects of the war that are generally lost in the great narrative histories and film documentaries which exude drama above all else but tend to compress events into compact formats. Schiller's work does not supersede such epics, nor should it, but it does provide some much-needed balance and alternative perspective. Schiller should be congratulated for his concise introduction and precise organizational efforts, which permit Captain Burgwyn to speak to us in his own words without the imposition of a historian's often turgid and anachronistic prose. A Captain's War is highly recommended for Civil War scholars and enthusiasts. (Reviewed by William Hohn Shepherd). 190 page 1994 release costs $25.00.
37th North Carolina Infantry, "The Thirty-Seventh North Carolina Troops. Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia," by Michael C. Hardy. Published by McFarland Press, the book consists of 352 pages and costs $45. Thanks to James Sontag for providing me this information to add to my website.
37th North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Infantry Website
42nd North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Infantry Website
My grandfather served with the 45th and was wounded at Gettysburg. Not having any luck finding facts about this regiment. Do you have any ideas of where to look? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Ronald Ray
49th North Carolina Regiment, "A True History of Company I, Forty-ninth Regiment, North Carolina Troops," by Private William A. Day. Originally published in 1863, by the Enterprise Job Office, a commercial printing arm of the Newton, N.C., newspaper, The Newton Enterprise. Billy Day joined the 49th North Carolina at age 18. The regiment's initial colonel was Stephen Ramseur. By May, 1862, the unit became part of Ransom's Brigade. The 49th North Carolina saw action at Malvern Hill and Antietam in 1862; it was then transferred to NC/Southern VA region where it saw action in the battles of Boone's Mill, Gum Swamp and New Bern. In May of 1864, the regiment returned to Petersburg and participated in the defense of the Confederate lines. Day was captured at Five Forks and was incarcerated at Point Lookout, Maryland, until June, 1865. Day wrote this book with the purpose of keeping alive for fellow veterans the memories of the war. This book may prove hard to find. 1998 reprint by Butternut & Blue, 141 pages costs $ 25.00.
49th North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Infantry Website.
56th North Carolina Regiment, "Across the Dark River: The Odyssey of the Fifty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry in the American Civil War," by Clyde H. Ray. Published by Parkway Publishers, Inc. Released in 1996,247 pages, the bo
56th North Carolina Regiment, Company I, "Reminiscences, 1861-1865," by Lawson Harrill. Originally published in 1910, at Statesville, North Carolina. Harrill was promoted to Captain and took command of this unit in May, 1862 at the Batle of Seven Pines following the death of Captain Kilpatrick. This scarce Confederate Regimental History, if found, could cost upwards of $ 625. 51 pages.
56th North Carolina Regiment, "Across the Dark River: The Odyssey of the Fifty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry in the American Civil War," by Clyde H. Ray. Published by Parkway Publishers, Inc. Released in 1996,247 pages, the book costs $ 18.95 and won an award from the North Carolina Society of Historians. They have a website where more information on the book can be found: http://www.netins.net/showcase/alurir.
57th North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Infantry Website
58th North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Infantry Website
96th North Carolina Militia Regiment - Allegheny County Website
97th North Carolina Militia Regiment - Ashe County Website
120th North Carolina, "The History of Company L, of the One Hundred Twentieth North Carolina Volunteer Infantry," by Wilbur Williamson. Originally issued in 1938 by the Freeman Printing Company, Lumberton, NC., this original, first edition of 104 pages covers this unit from Robeson County, North Carolina, in the Civil War (10 pages), the Spanish-American War (5 pages), World War I (15 pages), and other service. Inscribed by the author. Rare, the first copy never seen. Very rare. In mint printed wraps, this original copy cost $ 750.00, and can be obtained from L & T Respess Books, P.O. Box 1604, Charlottesville, VA 22902.
1st North Carolina Regiment Volunteer Cavalry Website.
His name was Robert Samuel Walker. Here is his profile: Residence: Orange County, North Carolina Occupation: No Data Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 19 September 1861 in Orange County, NC Enlisted in Company K, 2nd Cavalry Regiment North Carolina on 19 September 1861 POW on 26 July 1862 at North Carolina Exchanged on 06 October 1862 at Aiken's Landing, VA POW on 30 June 1863 at Hanover, PA (Or July 1st) Wounded on 30 June 1863 at Hanover, PA (Or July 1st) Returned on 15 July 1863 at (Estimated day) Absent on 15 August 1863 at (Detailed to buy a Horse) Wounded on 21 May 1864 at (Estimated day) Admitted on 22 May 1864 at Hospital, Richmond, VA (With Gunshot wound) On rolls on 30 September 1864 at Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster. (NC Roster C) Published in 1993 I have access to this database (and other civil war data bases) electronically for one year. Let me know if you need me to search someone for you in return for your assistance. To do so, I need as much data as you can give me. All given names (first, middle etc), City, County and/or state of residence and any service data known is particularly useful when the names are common (i.e. John Smith Vs. John T. Smith, from Hanover County). Best Regards, John
3rd North Carolina Cavalry, "A History of the North Carolina Third Mounted Infantry Volunteers: March 1864 to August, 1865," by Ron V. Killian. Published by Heritage Books, this Union Cavalry unit from Western North Carolina engaged in guerilla raids to disrupt Confederate Operations. 93 pages with rosters, this paperback sells for around $ 15.00
4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War! - The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War A History and Roster Neil Hunter Raiford ISBN: 0-7864-1468-5 302pp. photographs, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index $39.95 illustrated case binding (7 x 10) 2003 In April 1862, the Civil War was entering its second year and North Carolina was rallying to supply more troops for the Confederacy. The Partisan Ranger Act, passed by the Confederate Congress on April 21, prompted local leaders to recruit companies of irregular soldiers for service in the Confederate Army. Seven such companies were banded together into a regiment to form the 4th North Carolina Cavalry: a true cross-section of North Carolina, it contained soldiers from the largest urban areas and smallest rural areas from fifteen counties. This history of the 4th North Carolina Cavalry is based largely on primary source material—the official records, letters, diaries and recollections of the soldiers. The 4th North Carolina saw action in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was a part of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The roster comprises a large part of the book and provides biographical, genealogical and military information about each soldier. Neil Hunter Raiford earned a B.A. in History from Wake Forest University. He lives in Whiteville, North Carolina. $39.95 available from McFarland Publishers.
5th Battalion North Carolina
Cavalry, "The 5th and 7th Battalions of North Carolina Cavalry and the 6th North
Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)," by Jeffrey
C. Weaver. Photos, 178 page, 1995 issue, cost
$ 20.00.
6th North Carolina Cavalry, "The 5th and 7th Battalions of North Carolina Cavalry and the 6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)," by Jeffrey C. Weaver. Photos, 178 page, 1995 issue, cost $ 20.00.
7th Battalion North Carolina Cavalry, "The 5th and 7th Battalions of North Carolina Cavalry and the 6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)," by Jeffrey C. Weaver. Photos, 178 page, 1995 issue, cost $ 20.00.
McRae's Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry Website
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