52nd Regiment North Carolina Troops Descendants Association

52nd Regiment North Carolina Troops

Descendants Association

(At Petersburg - Hill's Third Corps, Heth's Division, MacRae's Brigade)

Participants in the Breakthrough Battle at Petersburg on April 2, 1865

Fought on or near the present day grounds of Pamplin Historical Park

The 52nd Regiment, North Carolina Troops completed its organization at Camp Mangum near Raleigh, North Carolina in April of 1862. Its soldiers were raised in the counties of Cabarrus, Randolph, Gates, Chowan, Stokes, Richmond, Wilkes, Lincoln, Stanly, and Forsyth. The regiment fought at Goldsboro, then moved to Virginia where it was brigaded under Generals' Pettigrew, Kirkland, and MacRae. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg, had 2 killed and 25 wounded in the fight at Bristoe, and surrendered with only 6 officers and 60 men. Its commanders were Colonels James K. Marshall and Marcus A. Parks, Lieutenant Colonels Eric Erson and Benjamin F. Little, and Major John Q. Richardson.

The Nixon Brothers

and The Dry Pond Dixies

Soldier's Notes

52nd Regiment North Carolina Troops

Descendants Roll Call

If you are a descendant or family member of a soldier of the 52nd Regiment North Carolina Troops who served honorably at any time during the war and would like to be listed on the Descendants Roll Call, please send an e-mail by clicking the mail icon below. Type "52nd NC" in the subject line and provide details in the message.

Not For Fame Or Reward
Not For Place Or For Rank
Not Lured By Ambition
Or Goaded By Necessity
But In Simple
Obedience To Duty
As They Understood It
These Men Suffered All - Sacrificed All
Dared all - And Died

Inscription written by Dr. Randolph Harrison McKim and carved

on the north side of the Confederate Memorial sculpted by Moses Ezekiel

located at Arlington National Cemetery

The Remembrance Wall

At The National Museum Of The Civil War Soldier

Another Great Way To Honor The Memory Of Your American Soldier

click on this link

Important Links

North Carolina

Sons of Confederate Veterans

52nd North Carolina Infantry

Reenactors

Pamplin Historical Park & National

Museum of the Civil War Soldier

Telling Their Story ... A Young Man

Embraces His Confederate Heritage

Two Brothers: One North, One South

by David H. Jones

The Final Battles of the Petersburg

Campaign by A. Wilson Greene

Ordering Service & Pension Records

National Archives

Also For Glory by

Don Ernsberger

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