1st Regiment Co B
"Hornet's Nest Rifles"








1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry 

1st Infantry Regiment State Troops was organized at the race track near 
Warrenton, North Carolina, during the spring of 1861. Its members were 
recruited in the counties of Chowan, Wilkes, New Hanover, Orange, 
Lincoln, Hertford, Northampton, Washington, Martin, Wake, and Halifax. 
In July it was mustered into Confederate service with more than 1,500 officers 
and men and ordered to Virginia. The regiment was brigaded under General 
Ripley, Colston, Steuart, and Cox. It participated in the campaigns of the 
army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, was with Early in the 
Shenandoah Valley, and shared in the Appomattox operations. This unit 
reported 142 casualties at Mechanicsville, 75 at Malvern Hill, 160 at South 
Mountain and Sharpsburg, and 15 at Fredericksburg. It lost 34 killed and 83 
wounded at Chancellorsville and forty percent of the 377 at Gettysburg. It 
surrendered 10 officers and 61 men in April, 1865. The field officers were 
Colonels Hamilton A. Brown, John A. McDowell, and Montfort S. Stokes; 
Lieutenant Colonels Jarrett N. Harrell and Matthew W. Ransom; and Majors 
James S. Hines, L.C. Latham, and Tristim L. Skinner. 


L. S. WILLIAMS           CAPTAIN
W. A. OWENS              CAPTAIN    
W. A. OWENS              1ST LIEUTENANT
ROBERT PRICE             1ST LIEUTENANT
W. F. HILL               2ND LIEUTENANT
T. D. GILLESPIE          3RD LIEUTENANT
T. D. GILLESPIE          1ST SERGEANT
J. H WYATT               2ND SERGEANT
J. B. FRENCH             4TH SERGEANT
R. B. DAVIS              1ST CORPORAL
J. J. ALEXANDER          2ND CORPORAL
W. M. MATTHEWS,JR        3RD CORPORAL
A. M. RHYM               4TH CORPORAL
UNKNOWN PHILLIPS         1ST SERGEANT
BLACK DAVIS              CORPORAL
JULIUS ALEXANDER         SERGEANT
MINOR SADLER             DRUGGIST

PRIVATES:

C. ANDERSON                  H. N. GRAY
J. L. ALEXANDER              R. F. GRAY
M. F. ALEXANDER              S. A. GRIER
F. T. ALEXANDER              S. R. GRAHAM
WILLIAM BARNETTE             J. H. GILLETT
NEWTON BOND                  J. H. GRIFFIN
J. B. T. BOONE               J. H. HUNTER
JOSIAH BLACK                 B. HOLLINGSWORTH
A. J. BOURDEAUX              W. L. HARRIS
W. S. BIGGART                S. A. HOWELL
R. R. CRAWFORD               S. A. HILTON
E. M. CROWELL                W. M. HENDERSON
R. B. CALDWELL               E. M. HOWELL
J. E. CALDWELL               G. W. JACOBS
ROBERT CANNEDY               MILTON JONES
J. G. A. DAVIS               L. R. JASWA
J. F. DAVIDSON               WILLIAM KESIAH
J. F. DORSETT                WM. J. KERR
W. G. DYER                   ORMNER LANDLER
A. EAGLE                     J. M. LEE
JOHN EAGLE                   R. C. McGINNIS
M. L. FRAZIER                J. H. LOWRIE   
J. R. FREDERICK              T. N. MUNY
JOHN FRAZIER                 ALLEN McDONALD
H. FULLENWELDER              R. B. McCORKLE
M. L. PANYGEN                M. MOSELY
W. N. M. MEANS               R. A. SHARP
JOHN MEHOLERS                L. W. A. SHAW
J. S. NICHOLS                JULIUS SADLER
A. A. NORMENT                J. PERRY SMITH
JAS. H. OATES                M. D. STEEL
S. R. ORR                    J. W. SHEPPARD
R. S. PRICE                  J. W. TAYLOR
R. PHIFER                    GEORGE TORRENCE
S. M. PAREDOE                WILLIAM TOVAM
J. W. POTTS                  J. F. TIDDY
JOSEPH PRICE                 R. A. TIDDY
H. M. PHELPS                 A. H. TATE
R. W. QUERY                  M. F. WINDLE
W. C. ROSE                   W. J. WINLEY
W. F. ROZZELL                W. B. WILLIAMS
J. B. SQUIRES                J. W. WILLIAMSON
JOHN STOWE                   HENRY TATE



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