Company C, 10th NCT
The battery was organized at Charlotte, North Carolina on May 16, 1861 with the following commissioned officers: Thomas H. Brem, Captain; S. J. Lowry and W. P. Lewis, First Lieutenants; Joseph Graham and A. B. Williams, Second Lieutenants. Captain Brem was one of the most patriotic men of the State. At the beginning of the organization of the battery, the Confederate Government was short of funds for equipping troops, but this circumstance did not deter Captain Brem in the least. He advanced the money to fully equip the battery, besides uniforming and feeding the men and purchasing eighty head of horses. This outlay was afterwards refunded to him, but in a depreciated currency. The battery at its organization numbered about one hundred and ten men rank and file. The men were enlisted in the neighborhood of Charlotte and the upper portion of South Carolina. The material was excellent and the devotion of the men to the cause was fully sustained by their four years of hard service.
The splendid record of this battery was made on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Wherever the Army of Northern Virginia marched and fought, this battery was found sharing its privations, partaking of and aiding in its ever glorious achievements, and adding to the never-fading lustre won on all those memorable fields of glory by the soldiers of North Carolina. From their first engagement at New Bern to the final surrender of Lee at Appomattox, the guns of this battery were heard, and when the last of them was surrendered, officers and men could point with pride to a record second to none made by the artillerists of the Confederacy.
Soldier's Notes
Company C, Light Battery
by Captain A. B. Williams
Charlotte Artillery
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Important Links
North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans |
Reactivated Company C, 10th NCST, Charlotte Artillery |
Pamplin Historical Park & National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
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Two Brothers: One North, One South by David H. Jones |
The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign by A. Wilson Greene
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