• ORGANIZATION:
  

  57th Infantry Regiment was organized at Salisbury, North Carolina, in July, 1862, with men recruited in the counties of Rowan, Forsyth, Catawba, Cabarrus, Lincoln, and Alamance. Sent to Virginia, the regiment was assigned to General Law's, Hoke's, Godwin 's, and W.G. Lewis' brigade. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Fredericksburg to Mine Run , then returned to North Carolina. After serving in th e Kinston area the 57th was ordered back to Virginia. It continued the fight at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor , in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations, and ar ound Appomattox . The unit reported 32 killed and 192 wounded at Fredericksburg, had 9 killed and 61 wounded at Chancellorsville and twenty-two percent of the 2 97 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. At the Rappahannock River in November, 1863, it lost 4 wounded and 292 missing. On April 9, 1865 it surrendered with 6 offic ers and 74 men of which 31 were armed.

• OFFICERS:
  

  Colonels Archibald C. Godwin and Hamilton C. Jones, Jr., and Major James A. Craige.

• ASSIGNMENTS:
  

  General Law's, Hoke's, Godwin's, and W.G. Lewis' brigade

• BATTLES:

• ROSTERS:

• 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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