Christopher Columbus Cole

(1831 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 22nd North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Greensboro in Guilford County, he was commissioned Captain, Company E of the 22nd Regiment on May 1861. He was elected Major of the regiment on 13 June 1862 in the Army reorganization.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was senior officer present at Second Manassas and on the Maryland Campaign, and commanded the regiment there.

The remainder of the War:
He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel on 16 March 1863, but was killed in action at Chancellorsville on 3 May 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Service information from Moore's Roster1. The photograph here is from one reproduced in Greensboro's Confederate Soldiers by Carol Moore (Arcadia Publishing, 2008; pg. 53). It is credited to the Greensboro Lodge No. 76, Earley W. Bridges.

His name is stated as Columbus C. Cole in many post-war references, including the Roster. His consolidated service record at the US National Archives identifies him as Christopher Columbus Cole, the variant we use here. His burial place moved from the Old Methodist Cemetery to Green Hill (probably in 1917).

Birth Date: 02/12/1831 Place of Birth: Stokes County, NC
Death Date: 05/03/1863 Death Place: Chancellorsville, VA Burial Place: Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 2, pp. 208, 223 [AotW citation 1011]

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