1st Lieutenant Nathan Byrd Hilliard and Private Edmund Phillips of Chatham County, North Carolina served in Company E (The Turtle Paws). Nathan Hilliad's sister Leovenia (Lovey) married Edmund Phillips after the war.
Private William H. Strum, a farmer from Granville County, North Carolina, age 29, enlisted on 25 February 1862 and was enrolled in Company A, 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment on 03 April 1862. He mustered out on 17 February 1865.
Private Cullen Smith, Company I, was 39 years old when he enlisted on 27 January 1862. He was from Pitt County, North Carolina. He was mustered out on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, Virginia.
