CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
1st Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves
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1st Regiment Junior Reserves was formed in July, 1864, at Weldon, North Carolina, by
consolidating the 1st and 6th Junior Reserves Battalions which had just been organized. It
contained men between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, and were drawn from the counties of
Warren, Franklin, Nash, Granville, Wake, Randolph, Chatham, Martin, Northampton, and
Chowan. Assigned to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, the unit
skirmished in the Roanoke River and Kinston areas. Later it served in L.S. Baker's Brigade, saw
action at Bentonville, and
surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were Colonel Frank S. Armistead,
Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Broadfoot, and Major Walter M. Clark.
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