(At Petersburg - Hill's Third Corps, Heth's Division, Lane's Brigade)
The 28th Regiment, North Carolina Troops was organized and mustered into Confederate service in September of 1861 at High Point, North Carolina. Its soldiers were recruited in the counties of Surry, Gaston, Catawba, Stanly, Montgomery, Yadkin, Orange, and Cleveland. The unit moved to New Bern and arrived just as the troops were withdrawing from that fight. Ordered to Virginia in May of 1862, the regiment was assigned to General Branch's and Lane's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia and fought at Hanover Court House and many engagements from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. The 28th Regiment participated in the long Petersburg campaign south of the James River through the end of the war. It came to Virginia with 1,199 men, lost thirty-three percent of the 480 engaged during the Seven Days' Battles, and had 3 killed and 26 wounded at Cedar Mountain and 5 killed and 45 wounded at Second Manassas. The regiment reported 65 casualties at Fredericksburg and 89 at Chancellorsville. Of the 346 in action at Gettysburg, more than forty percent were killed, wounded, or missing. It surrendered at Appomattox with 17 officers and 213 men present. Its commanders were Colonels James H. Lane, Samuel D. Lowe, and William H. A. Speer; Lieutenant Colonels William D. Barringer and Thomas L. Lowe; and Majors William J. Montgomery, Richard E. Reeves, and S. N. Stowe.
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