Numerous Loves, of the prominent North Carolina Love family, served in the 16th North Carolina Infantry
Regiment, 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and in Thomas' Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders.
The
real Private W. P. Inman,
portrayed by Jude Law in the movie Cold Mountain, was a Haywood County
highlander that served in Company F, Twenty-fifth North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Several of his brothers served in
the Twenty-fifth and Sixty-second North Carolina Infantry Regiments. See: William P. Inman's Compiled
Military Service Record (CMSR): National Archives.
Recommended
Reading: North Carolina's Civil War Regiments and State Troops; Famous North Carolina Civil War Regiments
and Battles; North Carolina’s Confederate Civil War
History
