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North Carolina 5th Regiment Senior Reserves

  • HISTORICAL SKETCH:

      Very little is known of the North Carolina Senior Reserve Units. A total of 5,618 men were enrolled in 8 units according to D. H. Hill in Confederate Military History. My rosters of these units have a total of 5,237 names:

        NC 2nd Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 2
        NC 3rd Infantry Battalion Senior Reserves – 362
        NC 4th Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 984
        NC 5th Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 1100
        NC 6th Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 955
        NC 7th Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 938
        NC 8th Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves – 874
        Hart’s Company NC Senior Reserves – 7
        McCorkle’s Battalion NC Senior Reserves – 17
      A total of 137 men from Ashe or Alleghany County, North Carolina served in the 5th North Carolina Senior Reserves. The regiment was formed by the consoli-dation of two battalions in the summer of 1864. Most of the companies served as prison guards at Salisbury, North Carolina, but Company F served as a mounted patrol guard for the Northwestern North Carolina counties. Few of the men actually wanted to be in service, and most were AWOL when a muster roll was prepared on February 28, 1865.

  • OFFICERS:

      Colonel:

        · Evans, G.B. (D.)
        · Evans, Peter G.
        Surgeon:
          · McCrory, Elvis
        Sergeant:
          · McGregor, Archibald
        Corporal:
          · Forbes, W. H.
        Quartermaster Sergeant:
          · McAllister, A. H.
        Chaplain:
          · Pratt, H.B.

    • ASSIGNMENTS:

        Prison guards at Salisbury, North Carolina Mounted patrol guard for the Northwestern North Carolina counties.

    • BATTLES:

    • ROSTERS:

    • BIBLIOGRAPHY:

       

    • REFERENCES:

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    Hill, Daniel H.
    - Confederate Military History - North Carolina Volume
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    Rigdon, John C.
    Historical Sketch and Roster of the 5th Regiment North Carolina Senior Reserves
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    Rigdon, John C.
    The Civil War in North Carolina
     
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    Rigdon, John C.
    North Carolina Civil War Soldiers Index
     
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    The Southern Historical Society Papers
     
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