CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
21st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
- Overview:
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21st Infantry Regiment, formerly the 11th Volunteers, was a twelve company command
organized at Danville, Virginia, in June, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Davidson,
Surry, Forsyth, Stokes, Rockingham, and Guilford counties. It was assigned to General
Trimble's, Hoke's, Godwin's, and W.G. Lewis' Brigade. After taking part in the Battle of First
Manassas and Jackson's
Valley operations, the 21st participated in many conflicts of the army from the Seven Days'
Battles to Bristoe. It was then involved in the engagements at Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff, and Cold Harbor,
marched with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action around Appomattox. The unit sustained 80
casualties at First
Winchester, 13 at Cross
Keys and Port Republic, 45 during the Seven Days' Battles, 51 at Groveton, 18 at Sharpsburg, and 24 at Fredericksburg. It lost 78 at Chancellorsville, twenty-eight percent
of the 436 at Gettysburg,
and 52 at Plymouth. In
April, 1865, it surrendered with 6 officers and 117 men of which 40 were armed. The field
officers were Colonels Saunders Fulton, B.Y. Graves, James M. Leach, Rufus K. Pepper, William
S. Rankin, and William L. Scott; and Majors James F. Beall, Alex. Miller, W.J. Pfohl, and J.M.
Richardson.
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