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50th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
50th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in April 1862 at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina.
Men of this unit were recruited in the counties of Person, Robeson, Johnston, Wayne, Rutherford, Moore, and Harnett. Ordered
to Virginia, it fought under General Daniel at Malvern Cliff and then returned to North Carolina. The 50th engaged at
New Bern and Washington, transferred to General James Green Martin's Brigade, and for a time served at Wilmington. Subsequently, elements of the regiment
were stationed at Plymouth and Washington. In November 1864 it relocated south and shared in the defense of Savannah
and skirmished along the Rivers' Bridge. It returned to North Carolina and was placed in General Kirkland's Brigade. The unit continued
the fight at Averasborough and fought its last battle at Bentonville. It totaled about 900 effectives in November 1864 and mustered less than half that number in March 1865.
It surrendered a force of nearly 250 on April 26. The field officers were Colonels Marshall D. Craton, James A. Washington,
and George Wortham; Lieutenant Colonel John C. Van Hook; and Major Henry J. Ryals.
Recommended Reading: Confederate Military History of North
Carolina
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.
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