North Carolina Regiments - Confederate

The multi-volume series, North Carolina Troops, includes regimental and company histories and a few lines about every North Carolina soldier. It's my principal source for information about these units and soldiers. If you find something of interest here, don't forget to nag your local librarian to buy the set.

There is a North Carolina Regiments Web Site with a bibliography of regimental histories and links to web pages for North Carolina Infantry and Cavalry Regiment web pages.

13th Battalion NC Light Artillery

Co. D was stationed in the Cape Fear District at the time of redesignation. It was reported at Camp Pettigrew during November and December of 1863. In early 1864 it was at Camp Whiting, Lockwood Folly Bridge. In June 1864 the battery was stationed at Fort Fisher. Pvt David Arrowood was captured at Fort Fisher January 15, 1865, and died at Elmira Prison March 14, 1865

2nd Regiment NC Artillery (36th NC Troops)

2nd Co. G, originally known as "Kennedy Artillery," later as "Adams' Battery," was raised in Beaufort County in September 1861. Pvt David Arrowood enlisted in Moore County March 23, 1863. November 4, 1863 the battery was redesignated Co. D of the 13th Battalion N C Light Artillery (see above.)

McRae's Battalion, NC Cavalry

There is an excellent page on the web for this unit, including a full roster.

Co. E - Pvt B Arrowood

1st NC Cavalry (9th NC Troops)

There is a page on the web for this unit, maintained by the modern re-enactors.

The regiment was organized August 12, 1861 at Camp Beauregard in Warren County, North Carolina. After receiving training there, in October the regiment was ordered on the 7th to Richmond, Virginia, and on the 22nd to Manassas Junction, Virginia. There it joined General J. E. B. Stuart;s Cavalry Brigade, and was assigned to picket duty near Centerville. Colonel Robert Ransom took twenty men from each company on a scouting mission November 26, 1861, and encountered enemy cavalry scouts at Vienna, Virginia, and drove them from the field. December 20, 1861 part of the regiment accompanied General Stuart's foraging expedition. In March 1862, General Joseph E. Johnston's army was moved from Manassas to a line near Fredericksburg. February 18, 1862 the 1st Cavalry Regiment had been ordered to Suffolk, Virginia. On March 22, they were ordered to return to the defense of North Carolina, and settled at Camp Ransom near Kinston, North Carolina.

Thereafter, the regiment joined the Army of Northern Virginia and participated in many battles, eventually surrendering at Appomattox Cout House April 9, 1865. There is a six page regimental history, and company rosters, in N C Troops.⁽¹⁾ After the war, one of the commanders, Rufus Barringer, wrote The First North Carolina, A Famous Cavalry Regiment.

Co. G - Pvt J M Barrett, discharged March 12, 1862 due to typhoid fever. Co. G, originally known as the "Buncombe Rangers," was enlisted in Buncombe County in May, 1861.

2nd NC Cavalry (19th NC Troops)

Co. A - Cpl David P Arrowood. Co. A, the "Cherokee Rangers," enlisted June 18, 1861, at Murphy in Cherokee County.

7th NC Cavalry (69th NC Troops)

Co. F - Pvt Solomon E Arrowood. Co. F was enlisted in Buncombe County in January, 1864.

Co. G - enlisted in Henderson County in January, 1864. NC Troops lists Pvts Benjamin, John, Noah, and William Arrowood and Jackson Barret all as "Reported on undated bounty roll."

Co. K - Pvt B F Arrowood. Co. K was enlisted in Buncombe County in October, 1864.

2nd Battalion NC Junior Reserves

Co. C - Pvt D. M. Arrowood.

2nd Battalion NC Infantry

Co. H - Pvt William Arrowood

12th NC Infantry

Co. D - Pvt David Arwood died at Elmira Prison March 3, 1865.

16th NC Infantry

Organized as 6th Infantry Regiment Volunteers at Raleigh on June 16, 1861, and assigned to Gilham's Brigade, Army of the Northwest, in which it participated in the battle of Cheat Mountain, September 12, 1861. Redesignated as the 16th Infantry Regiment on November 16, 1861, and assigned to Hampton's Brigade, Whiting's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. From June 1862 to May 1863, in Pender's Brigade of A. P. Hill's Division. From May 1863 until surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865, the 16th served in Scales Brigade, Pender's / Wilcox's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

I've bought a copy of "History of the 16th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War" by George Henry Mills (Edmonston, pb, reprint 1992, orig. pub. 1897), 82pp, by mail for $11 from The Scholar's Bookshelf.

Co. G - Pvt B Gaither Arrowood, killed in 1864.

18th NC Infantry

Co. I - Pvt John J Arrowood, killed at Wilderness, May 5, 1864

22nd NC Infantry

The unit was organized July 11 at Raleigh in Wake County with twelve companies as the 12th Infantry Regiment Volunteers. Original Companies C and D became respectively Co. A of the 28th and Co. A of the 26th Infantry Regiments before the regiment was first mustered in at Raleigh in the summer of 1861. Initially assigned to the Department of Fredericksburg and after October 1861 to Pettigrew's Brigade which went into Whiting's Division in the Department of Northern Virginia.

From June 1862 to May 1863, part of Pender's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Thereafter, in Scales' Brigade, Pender's / Wilcox's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.

Co. B - Pvt James Arrowood, deserted August, 1862. Co. B, the "McDowell Rifles," was raised in McDowell County and enlisted May 8, 1861, at Marion.

Co. G - Pvt Alfred Arrowood, wounded at Wilderness, May 6, 1864, retired to invalid corps. Co. G, the "Caswell Rifles," was raised in Caswell County and enlisted May 28, 1861, at Raleigh.

29th NC Infantry

Organized September 24, 1861, at Camp Patton at Asheville, under command of Col. R. B. Vance. Assigned to various brigades in the Department of East Tennessee until December 1862. Joining the Army of Tennessee, at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River) they were in Rains' brigade of McCown's division of Kirby Smith's corps, serving in Hardee's corps. Brig. Gen. Rains was killed, and Col. Vance of the 29th assumed command of the brigade. After Gen. Bragg's army withdrew to Shelbyville, a reorganization left Col. Vance's brigade made up of the 29th and 29th NC Infantry Regts, 3rd Bn GA Infy and 9th Regt GA Infy.

May 12, 1863 the 29th and 39th NC were transferred to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army in Mississippi. The 29th NC was assigned to Wilson's, and after August 24, Ector's brigade of Walker's Division. Sept 19 and 20, 1863 at the battle of Chickamauga the 29th lost 80 men killed and wounded and 30 missing. Sept 22 the brigade was transferred to Gen. Johnston's army in Mississippi and assigned to French's Division. See the History of Ector's Brigade for the remainder of their service.

Co. B was raised in Yancey County July 3, 1861. Pvt Joshua L Arrowood was captured near Marietta, Georgia, June 18, 1864, died as POW at Camp Morton Feb 23, 1865.⁽²⁾ A list of POW's⁽³⁾ doesn't mention Joshua, but says Pvt Andrew J Arrowood of Co. B, 29th Infy died at Camp Morton in 1865, and was buried in a national cemetery. But N C Troops shows Andrew in 39th Infy, captured and released.

Co. D. Pvt Robert H. Ingle enlisted in Madison County 13 Aug 1861.

Co. G was raised in Yancey County July 26, 1861. Sgt Elijah W Arrowood was captured on unknown date, held at Louisville, released July 31, 1864 after taking Oath of Allegiance.

Co. H was raised in Buncombe County September 11, 1861. Drummer John E Barrett, died in 1863. Fifer Christopher Barrett, invalid in 1862.

37th NC Infantry

Co. H - Pvt Benjamin F. Arrowood, died of pneumonia at Lynchburg, Virginia, April 2, 1863

38th NC Infantry

Organized January 17, 1862, and initially assigned to Department of North Carolina. From June 1862 to May 1863, part of Pender's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Thereafter, in Scales' Brigade, Pender's / Wilcox's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.

Co. F - Pvt Gilbert Arwood, killed July 1, 1863

39th NC Infantry

Organized May 19, 1862, from Coleman's Infantry Battalion and added companies, at Clinton, Tennessee. Assigned to Reynolds' Brigade, Department of East Tennessee, until December 1862. Thereafter, various brigades in the Army of Tennessee until May 1863, when it was assigned to Brig. Gen. E. McNair's Brigade, French's Division, in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. In Sept 1863 McNair's brigade was sent from Mississippi to reinforce Gen. Bragg's Army of Tennessee, where it was placed in Brig. Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson's Division, Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner's Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga.

Following the Battle of Chickamauga, McNair's Brigade rejoined Gen. Johnston's army at Meridian, Mississippi. It was placed again in French's Division, until February, 1864, when McNair's, later Reynold's brigade was attached to the Department, later Division, of the Gulf. From May 1864, the 39th NC was a part of Ector's Brigade, French's Division, in Polk's, later Loring's Corps, which joined the defense of Atlanta. See the History of Ector's Brigade for the remainder of their service.

Co. A - Pvt John Arowood, died of unknown cause in December, 1862
Co. B - Pvt Andrew J Arrowood, captured in Kentucky on or before Oct. 2, 1862. Paroled, but deserted. Returned to duty April 10, 1863. Present through Feb. 1864.

42nd NC Infantry

There is a page on the web for this unit, including a regimental history.

Organized April 22, 1862, at Salisbury. Served within the state under command of the Department of North Carolina until April 1863. Assigned then to Martin's Brigade, which remained under the Dept. of N. C. until May 1864. In that month, the brigade was assigned first to Whiting's / D. H. Hill's Division, and then, as Martin's / Kirkland's Brigade, to Hoke's Division, both in the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

From May 17 to June 14, 1864, the brigade was engaged in the campaign at Bermuda Hundred, when General Butler's Union army got itself bottled up on a peninsula and isolated from the battles of Grant and Lee in Virginia.

Kirkland's Brigade remained in Hoke's Division for the remainder of the war, as the division was transferred through four commands. The division was present at the Battle of Cold Harbor June 1-3, 1864, and later, at the siege of Petersburg. On July 30, 1864, troops of General Hoke's Division were engaged in the Battle of the Crater. In December 1864, the division rejoined the Deptartment of North Carolina and was involved in the two battles for Fort Fisher. Transferred to Hardee's Corps and, finally, to 1st Corps, Army of Tennessee, with which it participated in the Battle of Bentonville March 19-21, 1865. General Joseph Johnston surrendered his army April 26, 1865, at Durham Station in Orange County, North Carolina.

Co. D - Pvt George Arwood. Co. D "was raised in Rowan, Davie, and Iredell Counties, and was enlisted at Salisbury in January, 1862 ... as Company C of Major George C. Gibbs's Prison Guard Battalion ... and was assigned to guard duty at the Salisbury Prison."⁽⁴⁾ The battallion was reorganized in April 1862 as a regiment, and the company was redesignated as Co. D around May 10, 1862.

58th NC Infantry

There is an excellent page on the web for this unit, including a roster.

Co. B - 4th Corporal Elijah M. Arrowood, Pvt James A. Arrowood, Pvt James P Arwood, Pvt M. H. Arrowood.


Co. F - Pvt Levi Arrowood.

60th NC Infantry

Co. A - Pvt Levi Ingle enlisted at age 42 in Buncombe County 12 Apr 1862. Co. C - Pvt S. M. Arrowood.
Co. H - Pvt Hughey G. Arrowood.
Co. I - Pvt Robert D. Arrowood.

64th NC Infantry

Co. A,G,H - Pvt James M. Arrowood.
Co. D - Pvt Thomas A. Arrowood.

Thomas Legion Infantry Regiment

There is a page on the web for this unit.

Co. F was engaged in the last battle of the Civil War east of the Mississippi.
Cos. G & I - Pvt Jacob A. Arawood. There is a roster on the web for Company I.

2. Jordan, Weymouth T. Jr., comp., unit histories by Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster, Vol.VIII Infantry 27th - 31st Regiments (Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, 1981), p. 247.

3. Ingmire, Frances and Carolyn Ericson, Confederate P. O. W.'s - Soldiers & Sailors Who Died In Federal Prisons & Military Hospitals In The North - National Archives (1984), p. 93.

4. Jordan, Weymouth T. Jr., comp., unit histories by Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster, Vol. X Infantry 38th - 39th and 42nd - 44th Regiments (Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, 1985), p. 121.