CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
54th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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54th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, in
May, 1862. The men were from the counties of Rowan, Burke, Cumberland, Northampton,
Iredell, Guilford, Wilkes, Yadkin, Columbus, and Granville. It was assigned to General Law's,
Hoke's, Godwin's, and W.G. Lewis' Brigade, Army of Northern Virgina. The 54th was engaged
at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, then guarded
prisoners captured at Winchester during the Pennsylvania Campaign. Later it took part in Bristoe
and Mine Run campaigns, the conflicts at Plymouth and Drewry's Bluff, Early's Shenandoah
Valley operations, and the Appomattox Campaign. This
regiment lost 6 killed and 40 wounded at Fredericksburg, had 3 killed and 38
wounded at Chancellorsville and 2 wounded and 306 missing at the Rappahannock River. It totalled
about 700 men in July, 1864, and surrendered with 4 officers and 53 men of which 23 were
armed. The field officers were Colonels James C.S. McDowell, Kenneth M. Murchison, and John
Wimbish; Lieutenant Colonel Anderson Ellis; and Major James A. Rogers.
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