The Orange County Regiment was authorized on September 9, 1775 by the Province of North Carolina Congress. On April 22, 1776, the unit was split into the Northern Orange County Regiment and the Southern Orange County Regiment, which retained most of the original men. Both regiments were subordinated to the
Hillsborough District Brigade of militia on May 4, 1776. When the North Orange County Regiment was renamed the
Caswell County Regiment on May 9, 1777, the Southern Orange County Regiment name reverted to the Orange County Regiment. The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British during the
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...
in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia between 1776 and 1782. It was active until the end of the war.
Officers
Notable officers:
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Colonel John Hogan, (1775-1776)
* Colonel John Butler (1776-1777)
** Lt. Colonel in the Orange County Regiment of militia (1775-1776)
** Colonel over the Southern Orange County Regiment of militia (1776-1777)
** Brigadier General of the
Hillsborough District Brigade of militia (1777-1783)
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Colonel Alexander Mebane (1777-1780)
** Colonel in the Southern Orange County Regiment of militia (1776-1777)
** Colonel over the Orange County Regiment of militia (1777-1780)
** Commissary General for the State of North Carolina, with the rank of Brigadier General (1780-1783)
* Colonel Hugh Tinnen (sometimes Tinnon) (2nd colonel, 1779-1783)
** Captain in the
Hillsborough District Minutemen (1775-1776)
** Major in the Southern Orange County Regiment of militia (1776-1777)
** Lt. Colonel in the Orange County Regiment of militia (1777-1779)
** Colonel in the Orange County Regiment of Militia (1779-1783)
* Colonel William O'Neal (2nd colonel, 1780-1783)
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** Captain in the Southern Orange County Regiment of Militia (1776-1777)
** Captain in the Orange County Regiment of Militia - 1777-1779
** Major in the Orange County Regiment of Militia - 1779-1780
** Colonel in the Orange County Regiment of Militia - 1780-1783
Known engagements
See
Engagements for known engagements during the American Revolution.
See also
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List of American Revolutionary War battles
This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties.
Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war
* Boston campaign (1775–1776)
* Invasion of Quebec (1775†...
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Salisbury District Brigade
The Salisbury District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4, 1776, and disba ...
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Southern Campaigns: Pension Transactions for a description of the transcription effort by Will Graves
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Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
The Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the central theater of military operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War, 1778–1781. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina. ...
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References
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North Carolina militia
Orange County, North Carolina
1775 establishments in North Carolina