CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
3rd Battalion, North Carolina Junior Reserves
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3rd Regiment Junior Reserves was formed in January, 1865, by consolidating the 4th, 7th,
and 8th Junior Reserves Battalions. These battalions contained men between the ages of fifteen
and eighteen, and had participated in the defense of Fort Fisher. They were drawn from the
counties of Guilford, Alamance, Forsyth, Stokes, Person, New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus,
Catawba, Iredell, Rowan, Burke, Caldwell, Cumberland, Robeson, Richmond, and Rockingham.
Attached to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, the regiment served in the
Kinston area, then moved to Smithfield. Later it was assigned General L.S. Baker's Brigade, saw
action at Bentonville, and
surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. Colonel John W. Hinsdale, Lieutenant Colonel William
F. French, and Major A.B. Ellington were in command.
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