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The 26th Infantry Regiment was organized in August, 1861, at "Crab Tree," a plantation three miles from Raleigh, North Carolina. Its members were recruited in the counties of Ashe, Union, Wilkes, Chatham, Wake, Caldwell, Moore, Alamance, Randolph, and Ans
on. The regiment served at Fort Macon, on Bogue Island, North Carolina, then fought at New Bern. During the war it was assigned to General R. Ransom's, Pettigrew's, Kirkland's, and MacRae's Brigade. It saw action in the Seven Days' Battles and later the c
onflicts at Rawls' Mills and Goldsboro. The 26th went on to fight with the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg
On line site dedicated to this regiment.
Another site dedicated to this regiment.
Colonels Henry K. Burgwyn, Jr., John R. Lane, and Zebulon B. Vance; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Adams and John T. Jones; and Majors Abner B. Carmichael, James S. Kendall, and N.P. Rankin.
REFERENCES:
REF: Crute - Units of the Confederate States Army
Moore - Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States
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Hill, Daniel H. - Confederate Military History - North Carolina Volume |
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Rigdon, John C. Historical Sketch and Roster of the 26th Regiment North Carolina Infantry |
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Rigdon, John C. The Civil War in North Carolina |
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Rigdon, John C. North Carolina Civil War Soldiers Index |
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| The Southern Historical Society Papers |
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