North Carolina Infantry
Second Regiment

This regiment was at Newbern, N.C., from November, 1863 to 
February, 1864, to serve three years.  It was consolidated with the 
1st Regiment, N.C. Infantry on February 27, 1865.  
The official list of battles in which this regiment bore an honorable 
part is not yet published in orders

Taken From:
Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the U.S. Army for 
the years 1861-65,
1865
Published:  Washington, D.C:  G.P.O.
Microfiche [Bethesda, Maryland]:  Congressional Information Service, 
1911 (CIS Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909:  nos W312-1 to 
W31-8)
References:  CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 
1789-1909, Part 2

Colonel
Nothing listed

Lt. Colonel
Walter S. Poor, 30 March, 1864
(Discharged by reason of consolidation)

Major
Nothing listed

Captain
William A. Moore, 18 Aug., 1864

First Lieutenants
DeForest Marsters, 1 Jan., 1864
Elijah A. Smith, 10 January, 1864, (Dismissed by reason of consolidation)
Virgil G. Barnard, Adj’t., 12 Feb., 1864
William Kraft, 18 Aug., 1864
J.W. Smith, a.w.m.

Second Lieutenants
John S. Gordon, 17 Aug., 1864
William K. Hammond, 18 Aug., 1864
J.L. Styson, a.w.m. (Dismissed March 27, 1865)

Surgeon
None Listed

Assistant Surgeons
None Listed

Chaplain
None Listed

Casualties
None Listed

Resigned (2)
Captain Thomas F. Newton, Jan. 19, 1865
1st Lt. C.C. Barracastle, April 9, 1864

Discharged (6)
Capt. Edmund C. Blount, Feb. 23, 1865
Captain Calvin Haggard, Feb. 23, 1865
1st Lt. Edgar D. York, Dec. 19, 1864
1st Lt. Ernst H. Wardwell, R.Q.M., Feb. 23, 1865
2nd Lt. J. Albert Manning, Oct. 16, 1864
Surgeon Henry J. Menninger, Feb. 17, 1865

Died (2)
2nd Lt. William E. Overton, Sept. 21, 1864, of disease, at Beaufort, N.C.
2nd Lt. James L. Keeter, executed by enemy while a prisoner of war at 
Plymouth, N.C., in 1864 (no exact date given)


NOTE:  The roster of officers is given as it stood on the day of consolidation.


Transcribed by Christine Spencer July 2008





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