CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
47th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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47th Infantry Regiment was organized in March, 1862, at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh,
North Carolina. Its companies were composed of men from Nash, Wake, Franklin, Granville, and
Alamance counties. The regiment served in the Department of North Carolina until May, 1863,
when it moved to Virginia. During the conflict it was brigaded under Generals Pettigrew,
Kirkland, and MacRae. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg to Cold Harbor, then was involved in the
long Petersburg siege south
of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. The unit lost
over thirty-five percent of the 567 engaged at Gettysburg and reported 42 casualties at Bristoe
and 20 at The Wilderness.
It surrendered 5 officers and 72 men. The field officers were Colonels George H. Faribault and
Sion H. Rogers, Lieutenant Colonels Archibald d. Crudup and John A. Graves, and Major
William C. Lankford.
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