• ORGANIZATION:
  

  37th Infantry Regiment, organized by Colonel C.C. Lee, was assembled at High Point, North Carolina, in November, 1861. The men were raised in the counties of Buncombe, Watauga, Mecklenburg, Wake, Ashe, Alexander, and Gaston. The unit fought at New Bern , then moved to Virginia in the psring of 1862. It was assigned to General Branch's and Lane's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 37th saw action at Hanover Court House and particpated in many campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor . It continued the fight in the Petersburg trenches and ar ound Appomattox . This regiment reported 125 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 15 at Cedar Mountain , 81 at Second Manassas , 93 at Fredericksburg , and 235 at Chancellorsville . Of the 379 engaged at Gettysburg , more than thirty percent were disabled. It surrendered 10 officers and 98 men.

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• OFFICERS:
  

  The field officers were Colonels William M. Barbour and Charles C. Lee; Lieutenant Colonel John B. Ashcraft, Charles N. Hickerson, and William G. Morris; and Majors Jackson L. Bost, Owen N. Brown, John G. Bryan, Rufus M. Rankin, and William R. Rankin.

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• ROSTERS:

  Company C
  Company I
  

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• 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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