An excellent companion to Moore's Roster for researching North Carolina troops is the 5 Volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, published by the State of North Carolina in 1901. Editor Walter was Adjutant of the 35th Regiment at Sharpsburg, and later Lieutenant Colonel of the 70th Regiment.
All NC military units - along with an array of related subjects - are represented in one or more articles, and each piece is written by a veteran who served in the regiment, battalion, or battery. Their works range from brief essays to fairly sophisticated unit histories. As a bonus, most include selections of war-period photographs of officers and men. There are hundreds of faces altogether across the volumes.
These volumes are available online from both GoogleBooks and the Internet Archive (IA) Collection. I like the IA image quality and paging interface best, so a hyperlinked table of contents (hyperTOC) for that online edition follows ...
Clark, Walter, editor, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, 5 vols., Raleigh and Goldsboro (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Nash Brothers, printers, 1901
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- : Brigadier Generals from North Carolina (opposite pg. 3)
- State Organizations: (1861-62) | | | | | (1863-65)
- Regiment [ Big Bethel, Battle of Bethel, ] | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment [ Burnside Expedition]
- Regiment (1st Cavalry)
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | to the Ninth Regiment
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- : Lieutenant and Major Generals from North Carolina (opposite title page)
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment (2nd Cav) [ skirmishes near New Bern]
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment [ battle of New Bern] | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment (2nd Arty) [ Ft Fisher]
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- : Brigadier Generals from North Carolina (opposite pg. 727)
- Regiment (3rd Arty) | Regiment (3rd Cav) | Regiment
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- : Zebulon B. Vance, Governor, 1862-1865 (opposite title page)
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment [ Longstreet's Final Assault at Gettysburg]
- Regiment [ Plymouth and Defences, Richmond & Petersburg]
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment (4th Cav) | Regiment
- Regiment | Regiment
- Regiment (5th Cav) [ Middleburg, Upperville, Reams' Station, Boydton Plank Road, Belfield Raid, battles to Five Forks]
- Regiment | Regiment | Regiment (6th Cav) | Regiment
- Regiment [ Butler's Bridge] | Regiment
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- : US Military Prison, Johnson's Island (opposite title page)
- Organization of | Regiment (1st Reserve) [ Butler's Bridge]
- Regiment (2nd Resv) | Regiment (3rd Resv) [ Bentonville, Averasboro]
- Regiment (4th Resv) | Regiment (5th Resv) | Regiment (7th Cav)
- Regiment (6th Resv) | Regiment (7th Resv) | Regiment (8th Resv)
- Regiment (8th Cav)| Regiment | Regiment (1st of Detailed Men)
- Regiment (2nd Det) | Regiment (3rd Det)
Supplemental Histories: Regiment | Regiment
Battalion Histories: Battalion
- Battalion (Sharpshooters) | Battalion | Battalion (Lt Arty)
- Battalion | Battalion (Cav) | Battalion (Armory Guard)
- Battalion (Cav) | Battalion [ front of Wilmington]
- Battalion (1st Hvy Arty) | Battalion (2nd Hvy Arty) | Battalion
- Battalion (Cav) | Battalion (Lt Arty) | Battalion
- Battalion (Cav) | Battalion (Cav) | Battalion | Battalion
- Battalion | Battalion | Battalion | Battalion| Battalion
- Battalion | Battalion | Independent
- North Carolinians in | the
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- : Brigadier Generals from North Carolina (opposite pg. 435)
Brigade Histories: Brigade
- Brigade | Brigade | Brigade [ Dutch Camp Canal]
- Brigade | Brigade | Brigade
- Brigade | Brigade | Brigade
- Brigade | Brigade | Cavalry Brigade
- Brigade
- : A Parole from Johnston's Army (opposite pg. 583)
- Brigade
- Service | Corps | |
Military Prisons
- | : Prisoners to Gov. Vance
- at Johnson's Island, 1864 | at Morris Island, 1864)
- 2 years at | escape from |
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- : Bombardment of Ft. Fisher (opposite title page)
- List of | from NC
- : Generals from North Carolina (opposite pg. 3)
- from NC | | General and field
- where Nov 1861 | | other | NC
Captures and Battles
- forts below , Jan 1861 | | fall of |
- loss of [] | |
- flank march at | wounding of
- Longstreet's assault at [] | Pettigrew's
- the Pettigrew-Pickett | defence of |
- capture of [] | | []
- , Sept 1864
- : mound battery at Ft. Fisher (opposite pg. 217)
- defense of [ front of Wilmington, bombardment of Ft Fisher]
- surrender at | ... and | last days at |
North Carolina in the Navy
- in NC | NC | the ram "" []
- capture of the "" | the steamer []
- the [] | fight with |
- : blockade runners 'Advance', 'Banshee', 'Col. Lamb' (opposite pg. 357)
- : the chase of the 'Lillian' (opposite pg. 365)
- in England | NC's 1861-65
- : parole of the Army of Northern Virginia (opposite pg. 484)
- at Appomattox
Addenda
- the 1st NC | at Manassas |
- at Gettysburg | at Gettysburg
- capture of | on Gettysburg | at the Crater
- prisoners under fire at | Battalion | Cavalry
- the | |
- NC | in the War | the
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- to all volumes
Indices
- Index to at Appomattox | Index to
- General Index: | , etc | names: | | | | | |
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January 6th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Thanks Brian for another great resource.
Larry
May 26th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
This is an incredible find. I located a great amount of detailed information regarding troops and men. A sincere thank you for all your work.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:50 am
I think only volumes 3 and 5 are downloadable. If I’m wrong, let me know.
Bryce A. Suderow