NORTH CAROLINA'S LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR
40,275 NORTH CAROLINIANS KILLED AT WAR OF A TOTAL OF 115,369!
Gains Mill : 27 June 1862
Seven days Battles
White Oak Swamp: 30 June 1862
Seven Days Battles
Malvern Hill: 01 July 1862
Seven Days Battles
South Mountain: 14 September 1862
Sharpsburg: 17 September 1862
Fredericksburg: 17 September 1862
Chancellorsville: 01 May 1863
Gettysburg: 01-03 July 1863
Falling Waters: 10 July 1863
Bristoe Campaign: Oct.-Dec. 1863
Wilderness: 05-06 May 1864
Spotsylvania Court House:
08-21 May 1863
North Anna: 22-26 May 1863
Petersburg Siege: June 1864 -
April 1865
Globe Tavern: 18 -21 August 1864
Reams Station: 25 August 1864
Ft Harrison: 29-30 September 1864
Jones Farm: 30 September 1864
Hatchers Run: 05-07 February 1865
Appomattox Court House: 09 April 65
BATTLES
of the
38th North Carolina Troops
BATTLES AND CAMPAIGNS OF PENDER / SCALES BRIGADE
COMPANY G -- Rock Face Rangers
COMPANY H - Uwharrie Boys
COMPANY I - Cleveland Marksmen
COMPANY J - Carolina
Boys / Cumberland
677 Officers , 13,845 Enlisted - Killed in Action ,
541 Officers, 20,061 Enlisted - Died of Disease
330 Officers, 4,821 Enlisted - Died of Wounds 4,821
COMPANY A -- Spartan Band
COMPANY B -- Men of Yadkin
COMPANY C -- Sampson Farmers
COMPANY D -- Sampson Plowboys
COMPANY E -- Richmond Boys
COMPANY F -- Sulphur Wild Cats
Williamsburg -- 05 May 1862
(some elements of the brigade fought here)
Seven Pines -- 31 May - 01 June 1862
Seven Days -- 25 June - 01 July 1862
Cedar Mountain -- 09 August 1862
2nd Manassas -- 28-30 August 1862
Ox Hill -- 01 September 1862
Harpers Ferry -- 17 September 1862
Fredericksburg -- 11-15 December 1862
Chancellorsville -- 27 April - 06 May 1863
Gettysburg -- 01-03 July 1863
Falling Waters -- 10 July 1863
Mine Run -- 26 November - 02 December 1863
Wilderness -- 05 - 06 May 1864
Spotsylvania Court House -- 08 - 21 May 1864
North Anna River -- 23 -26 May 1864
Cold Harbor 01 June 1864
Petersburg Siege June 1864 -April 1865
Appomattox Court House -- 09 April 1865
The 38th NC Infantry was organized on 17 January 1862 at Camp Mangum near Raleigh, N.C. with Col William J. Hoke, uncle of Major General
Robert F. Hoke, as its first commander.
The 38th North Carolina soon found itself in the thick of the action. Serving for 3 years
in the Pender-Scales Brigade. The 38th fought along side the 13th,16th,34th and the 22nd North Carolina regiments. The William Dorsey
Pender / Alfred Scales Brigade fought for 3 years under such famous generals as A.P. Hill, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, and Robert
E. Lee.
As a part of the Pender/Scales Brigade the 38th fought in twenty(20) battles, stretching from the battles around Richmond
comprising the “Seven Days Battles”, to the end at Appomattox Court House. The battle of “Gettysburg”, as a defining moment in American
History, was on a smaller scale, a defining moment in the life of the 38th North Carolina Infantry. This Battle saw the highest casualties
of a single battle. It is generally considered that the 26th N.C. suffered 90% casualties during the famous 3rd day battle known as,
Pickett’s Charge, with 803 men going into the battle and only 95 coming out.
The 38th N.C. also suffered a 90% causality rate, as
it breached the Federal lines, at the now famous “Corps of Trees” and became a part of the “High Water Mark of the Confederacy”. The
same sense of duty, honor and commitment, which was prevalent then, is active and well today. We believe in the higher purpose and
that being the remembrance of those who have gone before us. The 38th N.C. Infantry was re-activated on 12 January, 2008. We are the
recipients of a glorious past, and we now work to build on this foundation.
Jerry W. Roberts
Sergeant, Company B, 38th North
Carolina Infantry
OUR 38TH NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS BY COMPANY
In those glorious, heady, and
exciting days right after North Carolinas decision to secede from the union on 20 May 1861, boys and men came together to defend the Old North State.