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1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry

 

  • ORGANIZATION:

      • The 1st Infantry Regiment was organized at the race track near Warrenton, North Carolina, during the spring of 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Chowan, Wilkes, New Hanover, Orange, Lincoln, Hertford, Northampton, Washington, Martin, Wake, and Halifax. In July it was mustered into Confederate service with more than 1,500 officers and men and ordered to Virginia. It surrendered 10 officers and 61 men in April, 1865.

  • OFFICERS:

      • Brown, Hamilton A. - Colonel
      McDowell, John A. - Colonel
      Stokes, Montfort S. - Colonel
      Harrell, Jarrett N. - Colonel
      Ransom, Matthew W. - Lieutenant Colonel
      Hines, James S. - Major
      Latham, L. C. - Major
      Skinner, Tristam L. - Major

  • ASSIGNMENTS:

      • The regiment was brigaded under General Ripley, Colston, Steuart, and Cox.

  • BATTLES:

      • This regiment participated in the campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, was with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and shared in the Appomattox operations. They reported 142 casualties at Mechanicsville , 75 at Malvern Hill , 160 at South Mountain and Sharpsburg , and 15 at Fredericksburg. It lost 34 killed and 83 wounded at Chancellorsville and forty percent of the 377 at Gettysburg .

  • ROSTERS:

      • The composite roster for this regiment shows 2,884 names.

      Company A
      Company B - Charlotte Grays

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    Hill, Daniel H.
    - Confederate Military History - North Carolina Volume
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    Diary of a Tarheel Confederate Soldier
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    Rigdon, John C.
    - Historical Sketch and Roster of the North Carolina 1st Infantry Regiment
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    Rigdon, John C.
    The Civil War in North Carolina
     
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    North Carolina Civil War Soldiers Index
     
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