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52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment
52nd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina,
in April 1862. Its members were recruited in the counties of Cabarrus, Randolph, gates, Chowan, Stokes, Richmond, Wilkes,
Lincoln, Stanly, and Forsyth. The unit fought at Goldsboro and then relocated to Virginia where it was brigaded with Generals Pettigrew,
Kirkland, and MacRae. It served with General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia during Gettysburg, had 2 killed and 25 wounded in the fight at Bristoe Station, and surrendered with only 6 officers and 60 men. Its commanders were Colonels James K. Marshall and Marcus A. Parks, Lieutenant
Colonels Eric Erson and Benjamin F. Little, and Major John Q. Richardson.
Recommended Reading: Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War,
by Edwin C. Bearss (Author), James McPherson (Introduction). Description: Bearss, a former chief historian of the National Parks Service and internationally
recognized American Civil War historian, chronicles 14 crucial battles, including Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg,
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Sherman's march through the Carolinas, and Appomattox--the battles ranging between 1861 and 1865;
included is an introductory chapter describing John Brown's raid in October 1859. Bearss describes the terrain, tactics, strategies, personalities, the soldiers and the commanders.
(He personalizes the generals and politicians, sergeants and privates.) The text is augmented by 80 black-and-white photographs
and 19 maps. It is like touring the battlefields without leaving home. Continued below...
A must for every one of America's countless Civil War buffs, this major work will
stand as an important reference and enduring legacy of a great historian for generations to come. Also available in hardcover:
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War .
Recommended Reading: Confederate Military History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In
The Civil War, 1861-1865. Description:
The author, Prof. D. H. Hill, Jr., was the son of Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill (North
Carolina produced only two lieutenant generals and it was the second highest rank in the army) and
his mother was General “Stonewall” Jackson’s wife's sister. In Confederate
Military History Of North Carolina, Hill discusses North Carolina’s massive task of preparing and mobilizing
for the conflict; the many regiments and battalions recruited from the Old North State; as well as the state's numerous
contributions during the war. During Hill's Tar Heel
State study, the reader begins with interesting and thought-provoking statistical
data regarding the 125,000 "Old North
State" soldiers that fought during the course of the war and the 40,000
that perished. Hill advances with the Tar Heels to the first battle at Bethel, through numerous
bloody campaigns and battles--including North Carolina’s contributions at the "High
Watermark" at Gettysburg--and concludes with Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
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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