North Carolina
1st Infantry Regiment
Junior Reserves

 


  • ORGANIZATION:

      1st Regiment Junior Reserves was formed in July, 1864, at Weldon, North Carolina, by consolidating the 1st and 6th Junior Reserves Battalions which had just been organized. It contained men between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, and were drawn from the counties of Warren, Franklin, Nash, Granville, Wake, Randolph, Chatham, Martin, Northampton, and Chowan. Assigned to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, the unit skirmished in the Roanoke River and Kinston areas. Later it served in L.S. Baker's Brigade, saw action at Bentonville , and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee.

  • OFFICERS:

      Armistead, Frank S. - Colonel
      Broadfoot, Charles W. - Colonel
      Clark, Walter M. - Major Culberson, J. J. - First Lieutenant
      Douthil, James B. - First Lieutenant
      Blanton, S. T. - Second Lieutenant
      York, W. C. - Second Lieutenant
      Gross, L. M. (M. L.?) - Second Lieutenant
      Young, B. F. - Junior Second Lieutenant
      Gray, T. R. - Third Lieutenant
      Atkin, W. B. - Corporal
      Canble (Campbell?), H. B. - Corporal
      Cauble, H. M. - Corporal
      Flack, A. E. - Corporal
      Gardner, T. W. - Corporal
      Green, T. Z. - Corporal
      Haynes, C. H. (H. C.?) - Corporal
      Hill, T. W. (W. T.?) - Corporal
      Hill, W. R. - Corporal
      Hopper, B. T. (T. B?) - Corporal
      James, J. H. - Corporal
      Yelton, L. J. - Corporal
      Cathey, Thomas H. - Quartermaster Sergeant

  • ASSIGNMENTS:

  • BATTLES:
      Bentonville

  • ROSTERS:

      The composite roster of this battalion contains the names of 1792 men.

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY:

     

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    Historical Sketch & Roster - The 1st Regiment North Carolina Junior Reserves
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