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The 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia it fought in the Eastern Theater until the
Lavish of Blood: The 1st North Carolina State Troops at the Battle of Mechanicsville
''Company Front,'' 2016, Volume 30, Issue 1 The other field officers were Lieutenant-Colonel1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
in the National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors System
''Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861–65''
Goldsboro, North Carolina: Nash Brothers, 1901. Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from North Carolina 1861 establishments in North Carolina
The 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia it fought in the Eastern Theater until the surrender at Appomattox
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Rober ...
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History
The 1st North Carolina Infantry was organized at the race track at Warrenton, North Carolina during the spring of 1861 and mustered in on June 3, 1861 with nearly 1600 officers and men hailing from eleven North Carolina counties. Colonel Montford S. Stokes, a son of North Carolina GovernorMontfort Stokes
Montfort Stokes (March 12, 1762November 4, 1842) was an American United States Democratic Party, Democratic (originally United States Democratic-Republican Party, Democratic-Republican) politician who served as United States Senate, U.S. Senato ...
, became its commanding officer. He served in the Navy from 1832 to 1839 and also fought as a Major with the North Carolina Volunteers during the Mexican–American War.Robert A. WilliamsLavish of Blood: The 1st North Carolina State Troops at the Battle of Mechanicsville
''Company Front,'' 2016, Volume 30, Issue 1 The other field officers were Lieutenant-Colonel
Matt W. Ransom
Matthew Whitaker Ransom (October 8, 1826October 8, 1904) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1872 and 1895.
Early life and antebellum ...
and Major John A. McDowell. The regiment initially served in Department of North Carolina, and after the First Manassas was relocated to Virginia.
The 1st North Carolina joined the Army of Northern Virginia and was brigaded under Brig. Gen. Roswell S. Ripley
Roswell Sabine Ripley (March 14, 1823 – March 29, 1887) was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was also an author and a prosperous So ...
in the division of Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill
Lieutenant-General Daniel Harvey Hill (July 12, 1821 – September 24, 1889), commonly known as D. H. Hill, was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the eastern and western theaters of the American Civil War ...
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On June 26, 1862 during the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek
The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsville or Ellerson's Mill, took place on June 26, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, was the first major engagement of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign of th ...
the 1st North Carolina suffered its first heavy casualties as fifty-four of their own were killed or mortally wounded and over one hundred wounded. Colonel Stokes was mortally wounded and died on July 14, 1862.
As part of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, Second Corps, the 1st North Carolina participated in almost every battle the Army of Northern Virginia fought in the Eastern Theater.
The regiment surrendered with the army Battle of Appomattox Court House, at Appomattox on April 9, 1865; fielding 10 officers and 61 enlisted men.in the National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors System
Organization
* Company A (''Albemarle Guards'') – Chowan County, North Carolina, Chowan County * Company B (''Wilkes Volunteers'') – Wilkes County, North Carolina, Wilkes County * Company C (''Lillington Rifle Guards'') – Harnett County, North Carolina, Harnett County * Company D – Lincoln County, North Carolina, Lincoln and Orange County, North Carolina, Orange Counties * Company E – New Hanover County, North Carolina, New Hanover County * Company F (''Hertford Greys'') – Hertford County, North Carolina, Hertford County * Company G (''Washington Volunteers'') – Washington County, North Carolina, Washington County * Company H – Martin County, North Carolina, Martin County * Company I (''Wake Light Infantry'') – Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County * Company K – Halifax County, North Carolina, Halifax CountySee also
* List of North Carolina Confederate Civil War unitsReferences
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* Clark, Walter. Ed''Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861–65''
Goldsboro, North Carolina: Nash Brothers, 1901. Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from North Carolina 1861 establishments in North Carolina