Confederate Regiment

49th North Carolina Infantry

Organized: Garysburg, NC; mustered in 3/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Appomattox Courthouse, VA 4/9/1865

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
LCol. L. M. McAfee

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Walker's Division
  Brigade - Ransom's Brigade

Unit history

The regiment was recruited from the North Carolina counties of McDowell, Cleveland, Iredell, Moore, Mecklenburg, Gaston, Catawba, and Lincoln in the Spring of 1862. They served in the Army of Northern Virginia, fighting on the Peninsula, 2nd Manassas, and Maryland Campaigns.

Statistics

Initial Strength: not known; Killed in Action (KIA): 16; Wounded (WIA): 61;

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)
Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #360: Walker's Division, Longstreet's Command - 15 Sep, 6 PM to 18 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #362: Ransom's Brigade, Walker's Division - 16 Sep, 3 PM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #374: Walker's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

After the Sharpsburg Campaign

They were at Fredericksburg in December, then in North Carolina around New Bern. They were at Drewery's Bluff and Cold Harbor (May and June 1864) , in the trenches at Petersburg (1864-5), and at Appomattox.

References & Notes

Source: Crute, Joseph H. Jr., Units of the Confederate States Army, Midlothian, Virginia: Derwent Books, 1987.

We have 67 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Beatty, John W.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Coggins, John W.	KIA 09/17
A	Lt	Fleming, James Greenlea	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Jordon, James M.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Melton, Samuel	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Street, David	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Wadkins, George E.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Wadkins, John M.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Walker, J. L.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Whisnant, Elkanah	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Byerly, G.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cook, James	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Delap, John	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Dotey, Isaac	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Everhart, C.	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Foltege, F.	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Foltege, Samuel	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Goens, Michael	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Griff, R.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hunt, E.	KIA 09/14
B	Sgt	Withrow, J. C.	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Gallemore, William B.	KIA 09/16
D	Pvt	McDonald, Kenneth M.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McDonald, Randolph J.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Wallace, Hiram W.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Alexander, William P.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bennett, Doctor Green	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Crenshaw, John	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Elliott, Samuel H.	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Neel, Larkin M.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Porter, Robert A.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Walker, Elijah M.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Weeks, Joseph L.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Whitesides, William	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Allen, M.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cobb, W. W.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Davis, J. B.	WIA 09/17
G	Lt	Fulton, James Preston	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Goforth, Isaac West	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Goforth, William C.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Howell, F.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Lewis, T.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Riddle, J. L.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Waters, W. P.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Weir, J. G.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Beatty, W. C.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Brison, T. L.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Carson, Edward W.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Cook, Madison	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hovis, J. J.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Pearson, J. J.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Ratchford, W. A.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Rhyne, Eli S.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Danner, William James Monroe	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Harwell, James T.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Harwell, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jones, William	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Lowrance, S. Nelson	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Moss, George Washington	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Reynolds, William	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Setzer, James Pinkney	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Sherrill, Jacob	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Wilfong, John W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hoyle, Peter	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Simpson, Even	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Stogner, Holden	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	McAfee, Leroy Magnum

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