CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
30th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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30th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North
Carolina, in October, 1861. The men were raised in the following counties: Sampson, Warren,
Brunswick, Wake, Nash, Granville, Duplin, Edgecombe, Moore, and Mecklenburg. It served in
the Department of North Carolina, then was assigned to General G.B. Anderson's, Ramseur's,
and Cox's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 30th saw action from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, marched with Early
to the Shenandoah Valley, and was involved in the Appomattox operations. The unit
reported 30 killed and 137 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, lost thirty-six percent of the
250 in the Maryland Campaign, and had 9 wounded at Fredericksburg. It sustained 125
casualties at Chancellorsville, lost sixteen percent
of the 278 engaged at Gettysburg, and had 3 killed and 42
wounded on the Rappahannock River. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 6 officers and 147 men.
The field officers wre Colonel Francis M. Parker; Lieutenant Colonels Walter Draughan, James T.
Kell, and William W. Sillers; and Major James C. Holmes.
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