• ORGANIZATION:
  

  49th Infantry Regiment was organized in March, 1862, at Garysburg, North Carolina. Its companies were recruited in the following counties: McDowell, Cleveland, Iredell, Moore, Mecklenburg, Gaston, Catawba, and Lincoln. Assigned to General R. Ransom's and M.W. Ransom's Brigade, the unit fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Fredericksburg . It then served in the New Bern area a nd near the Chowan River in North Carolina. Returning to Virginia, it was active at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor , took its place in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and saw action around Appomattox . This regiment lost 14 killed, 75 wounded, and 16 missing at Malvern Hill , had 16 killed and 61 wounded during the Maryland Campaign, and had 9 wounded at Fredericksburg . Many were disabled at Sayler's Creek , and it surrendered 11 officers and 95 men on April 9, 1865.

• OFFICERS:
  

  Colonels Lee M. McAfee and Stephen D. Ramseur; Lieutenant Colonels James T. David, William A. Eliason, and John A. Flemming; and Majors Pinckney B. Chambers and Charles Q. Petty.

• ASSIGNMENTS:
  

  General R. Ransom's and M.W. Ransom's Brigade

• BATTLES:

• ROSTERS:

  Company F
  

• BIBLIOGRAPHY:
  

   

• 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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