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60th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
60th Infantry Regiment was organized at Greenville, Tennessee, during the summer of 1862 by adding
four companies to the 6th North Carolina State Infantry Battalion. The men were recruited in Asheville and the counties
of Madison, Buncombe, and Polk, and a small number were from Tennessee. It was assigned to Preston's, Stovall's, Reynolds',
Brown's and Reynolds' Consolidated, and Palmer's Brigade. The 60th fought at Murfreesboro, served in Mississippi, and participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Bentonville. It suffered 3 killed, 65 wounded and 11 missing at Murfreesboro, and in January 1863 had
276 men present for duty. The 60th engaged in the defense of Vicksburg and fought at Stones River. Of the 150 engaged at Chickamauga, the unit reported 8 killed, 36 wounded and 16 missing. The 60th North Carolina totaled
106 men and 59 arms in December 1863, and mustered a force of 106 in January 1865. Few surrendered in April. The field officers
were Colonels Washington M. Hardy and Joseph A. McDowell; Lieutenant Colonels William H. Deaver, J. M. Ray, and James T. Weaver;
and Majors James T. Huff and William W. McDowell. (See Private John W. Reese Papers: 60th at the Battle of Stones
River).
60th North Carolina
Infantry Regiment (Historical Sketch):
It organized at Madison during
the summer of 1862; marched to Greenville, and then arrived by rail at Murfreesboro; retreated and went into winter quarters
at Tullahoma in winter of 1862-63; May 1863 was attached to Stovall's Brigade in Mississippi; camped near Jackson till July
1863; on July 1, 1863, advanced to assist at Vicksburg, however, it reached the outskirts by July 5 and was informed of Vicksburg’s
fall; fell back towards Jackson and was pursued by federals; engaged and inflicted heavy casualties on the Union army near
Jackson on July 12, and, as a result, Stovall’s Brigade captured 4 Union flags; on Sept. 1, 1863, advanced to near Rome,
GA; suffered severe casualties at the Battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge; went into winter quarters near Dalton,
GA, in winter of 1863-64; fought in and around Atlanta; marched through GA, AL, and crossed the Tennessee River, and then
camped at Columbia on the Duck River; December 1864 fought at Franklin and suffered severe losses; part of the 60th was detached to engage Union forces near Murfreesboro and to destroy railroads
in that area; it retreated from Murfreesboro and passed through AL and GA; it engaged Gen. Sherman's pickets near Branchville
SC; retreated to Columbia, SC; then passed through Charlotte, Salisbury, Raleigh, Smithfield, and engaged at the Battle of
Bentonville on March 19-21, 1865; retreated through Raleigh on April 12; arrived and surrendered at Greensboro with 75
soldiers. Adapted from Walter Clark's N.C. Regiments, Volume III, pp. 473-502.
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.
Recommended Reading:
Confederate Military History of North Carolina
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