CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
60th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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60th Infantry Regiment was organized at Greenville, Tennessee, during the summer of
1862 by adding four companies to the 6th North Carolina State Infantry Battalion. The men were
recruited in Asheville and the four counties of Madison, Buncombe, and Polk, and a small number
were from Tennessee. It was assigned to Preston's, Stovall's, Reynolds', Brown's and Reynolds'
Consolidated, and Palmer's Brigade. The The 60th fought at Murfreesboro, served in Mississippi,
then participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Bentonville. It lost 3 killed, 65
wounded, and 11 missing at Murfreesboro, and in January, 1863, had 276 men present for duty.
The unit reported 8 killed, 36 wounded, and 16 missing of the 150 engaged at Chickamauga,
totalled 106 men and 59 arms in December, 1863, and mustered a force of 106 in January, 1865.
Few surrendered in April. The field officers were Colonels Washington M. Hardy and Joseph A.
McDowell; Lieutenant Colonels William H. Deaver, J.M. Ray, and James T. Weaver; and Majors
James T. Huff and William W. McDowell.
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