CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
16th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
- Overview:
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16th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 6th Volunteers, completed its organization at
Raleigh, North Carolina, in June, 1861. Its members were from the counties of Jackson,
Madison, Yancey, Rutherford, Burke, Buncombe, Macon, Henderson, and Polk. Sent to Virginia
with about 1,200 men, the regiment was assigned to General W. Hampton's, Pender's, and
Scales' Brigade. It served in many battles of the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, was involved in the long
Petersburg siege south of
the James River, and was active around Appomattox. It had a force of 721
men in April, 1862, lost 33 killed and 199 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, had 8 killed
and 44 wounded at Second
Manassas, and suffered 6 killed and 48 wounded at Fredericksburg. The unit reported
105 casualties at Chancellorsville, and of the 321
engaged at Gettysburg,
thirty-seven percent were disabled. It surrendered 12 officers and 83 men. The field officers were
Colonels Champion T.N. Davis, Stephen Lee, John S. McElroy, and William A. Stowe;
Lieutenant Colonels Abel J. Cloud and Robert G.A. Love; and Majors Benjamin F. Briggs and
Herbert D. Lee.
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