CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
56th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
- Overview:
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56th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July, 1862, at Camp Magnum, near
Raleigh, North Carolina. Its members were recruited in the counties of Camden, Cumberland,
Pasquotank, Northampton, Orange, Cleveland, Alexander, Rutherford, and Mecklenburg. The
unit was on reconnaissance between Goldsboro, Wilmington, and Tarboro, then served on the
Blackwater. Attached to M.W. Ransom's Brigade, it fought at Gum Swamp, Plymouth, and Drewry's Bluff, endured the hardships
of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and saw action around Appomattox. The regiment had 149
men captured at Gum Swamp, lost 4 killed and 84 wounded at Plymouth, and reported 90 casualties
at Ware Bottom Church.
Many were disabled at Sayler's
Creek, and only 9 officers and 62 men surrenderd with the Army of Northern Virginia. The
field officers were Colonel Paul F. Faison, Lieutenant Colonel G. Gratiott Luke, and Majors John
W. Graham and Henry F. Schenck.
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