CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
22nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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22nd Infantry Regiment, formerly the 12th Volunteers, completed its organization near
Raleigh, North Carolina, in July, 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Caldwell,
McDowell, Surry, Ashe, Guilford, Alleghany, Caswell, Stokes, and Randolph. With nearly 1,000
men, the unit was ordered to Virginia and assigned to the Aquia District in the Department of
Northern Virginia. Later it was brigaded under Generals Pettigrew, Pender, and Scales. It fought
with the army from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, took its place in the Petersburg trenches south of
the James River, and ended the war at Appomattox. In April, 1862, this
regiment contained 752 men, reported 161 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, had 6 killed
and 57 wounded at Second
Manassas and 1 killed and 44 wounded at Fredericksburg. It lost 30 killed and
139 wounded at Chancellorsville and of the 321
engaged at Gettysburg,
over fifty percent were disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 13 officers and 97 men.
The field officers were Colonels James Conner, Thomas S. Galloway, Jr., Charles E. Lightfoot,
and James J. Pettigrew; Lieutenant Colonels Christopher C. Cole, R.H. Gray, John O. Long, and
William L. Mitchell; and Majors Laban Odell and W.Lee Russell.
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