• ORGANIZATION:
  

  The 58th Infantry Regiment was organized in Mitchell County, North Carolina, in July, 1862. Its twelve companies were recruited in the counties of Mitchell, Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, McDowell, and Ashe. In September it moved to Cumberland Gap and spent t he winter of 1862-1863 at Big Creek Gap, near Jacksboro, Tennessee. The 58th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Atlanta , guarded prisoners at Columbia, Tennessee, during Hood's operations, then moved to South Carolina and skirmished along the Edisto River. Later it returned to North Carolina and saw action at Bentonville . It lost 46 killed and 114 wounded at Chickamauga, totalled 327 men and 186 arms in December, 1863, and took about 300 effectives to Bentonville. The unit was included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.

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• OFFICERS:
  

  Colonel John B. Palmer; Lieutenant Colonels Thomas J. Dula, John C. Keener, Edmund Kirby, William W. Proffitt, and Samuel M. Silver.

• ASSIGNMENTS:
  

  Kelly's, Reynolds', Brown's and Reynolds' Consolidated, and Palmer's Brigade.

• BATTLES:

  Chickamauga
  Atlanta
  The Carolina's Campaign
  Bentonville
  

• ROSTERS:

  The composite rosters of this regiment contain 2,782 men.
  

  Company A - Mitchell Co.; Organized 6/10/62
  Company B - Yancy Co.; Organized 5/17/62
  Company C - Yancy Co.; Organized 5/29/62
  Company D - Watauga Co.; Organized 6/27/62
  Company E - Caldwell Co.; Organized 7/29/62
  Company F - McDowell Co.; Organized 7/14/62
  Company G - Yancy Co.; Organized 7/11/62
  Company H - Caldwell Co.; Organized 3/15/62
  Company I - Watauga Co.; Organized 7/15/62
  Company K - Mitchell Co.; Organized 5/17/62
  Company L - Ashe Co.; Organized 7/20/62
  Company M - Ashe Co. and Watauga Co.;Organized 9/26/62
  (This company merged with Company G in 1863.)
  

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• 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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