1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment

(AKA 9th North Carolina Regiment Volunteers-1st Cavalry)

 

9th Regiment Volunteers-1st Cavalry, AKA 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, was organized at Camp Beauregard, Ridgeway, North Carolina, in August 1861. Its companies were from the counties of Ashe, Wayne, Macon, Northampton, Mecklenburg, Watauga, Cabarrus, Buncombe, Duplin, and Warren. Ordered to Virginia, the regiment was brigaded with Generals Hampton, L. S. Baker, James B. Gordon, and Barringer. It fought in many campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia, including the battles at Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Fairfax Court House, Sharpsburg, General J.E.B. Stuart's raid into Pennsylvania, Hampton's raid to Dumfries, Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville, Carlisle, Gettysburg   (Order of Battle), Buckland Mills, Mine Run, Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Reams Station, Hampton's Cattle Raid, and Five Forks. The 1st Cavalry had 407 effectives at Gettysburg and 8 at Appomattox. The field officers were Colonels Lawrence S. Baker, W. H. Cheek, James B. Gordon (later promoted to Brigadier General; mortally wounded at the Battle of Meadow Bridge; and cousin to Major General John B. Gordon), Robert Ransom, Jr., and Thomas Ruffin; Lieutenant Colonels Rufus Barringer and William H. H. Cowles; and Majors Thomas N. Crumpler, George S. Dewey, Marcus D. L. McLeod, and John H. Whitaker.

Sources: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865; National Park Service: American Civil War; National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors System; Weymouth T. Jordan and Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865; and D. H. Hill, Confederate Military History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In The Civil War, 1861-1865.