CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
13th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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13th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 3rd Volunteers, was organized at Garysburg, North
Carolina, in May, 1861, with 1,100 men. Its members were recruited in Caswell, Mecklenburg,
Davie, Edgecombe, and Rockingham counties. Ordered to Virginia, the unit was assigned to
General Colston's, Garland's, Pender's, and Scales' Brigade. It shared in the many campaigns of
the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, endured the battles and
hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and took part in the Appomattox operations. This
regiment totalled 575 effectives in April, 1862, lost 29 killed and 80 wounded during the Seven
Days' Battles, and had 41 killed and 149 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. It reported 37
casualties at Fredericksburg and 216 at Chancellorsville. Of the 232 engaged
at Gettysburg, more than
seventy-five percent were disabled. It surrendered 22 officers and 193 men. The field officers
were Colonels Joseph H. Hyman, William D. Pender, and Alfred M. Scales; Lieutenant Colonels
W.S. Guy, Henry A. Rogers, Thomas Ruffin, Jr., and E. Benton Withers; and Majors John T.
Hambrick, D.H. Hamilton, Jr., and T.A. Martin.
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