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1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (6 months, 1861): Statistics*
- Organized on May 13 1861
- Mustered out on Nov 12 1861
Available
statistics for total numbers of men listed as:
- Enlisted or commissioned: 1474
- Killed or died of wounds: 1
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Died of disease: 58
- Prisoner of war: 1
- Disabled: 19
- Deserted: 1
- Discharged: 33
- Mustered out: 1341
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Transferred out: 3
* Information obtained through: Confederate Military History, Extended
Edition (19 Volumes); The Union Army (9 Volumes); Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions From North
Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865 (5 Volumes); North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster (15 Volumes); Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Recommended Reading:
More Terrible than Victory: North Carolina's Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861-65 (368 Pages). Description:
Craig Chapman presents the definitive history of the
First North Carolina Volunteers / 11th Regiment North Carolina Troops--the legendary Bethel Regiment. The 1st North Carolina
Volunteers struck history as it engaged in the Civil War's first land battle and witnessed the first soldier killed in the
great conflict. Chapman conveys the compelling history of these brave men as they left hearth and home in defense of their
state, beliefs and ideals. Most of the unit's raw, young recruits had never traveled outside of North Carolina, nor fired a weapon in combat. Continued
below...
After
an enlistment of six months, North Carolina's First Regiment disbanded. Most of the men then enlisted in the Eleventh
NC Regiment, commonly referred to as the Bloody Bethel Regiment, and fought
in the bloodiest battles and campaigns of the Civil War. About the Author: Craig
S. Chapman commands one of the North Carolina National Guard infantry battalions that traces its lineage to the Eleventh Regiment
North Carolina Troops, the unit that started out as the First North Carolina Volunteers and nicknamed the Bethel Regiment.
Chapman resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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