Add mine to your list of welcomes, Mr. Cockerham. Your search for the factory sounds promising. Please keep us updated as months go by. and hello to a resident of the great state of Tennessee. sockknitter
Welcome to the boards, Larry. I'm sure you will be a welcome addition.
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Welcome to Civil War Talk Larry. If you've got info on your folks, please share it in another forum. Any first hand stuff by them is appreciated by us. We're hungry for knowledge (& not hardtack or raw pork).
Larry/everbody, wasn't the 37th NC at New Bern in March 1862? I'm working on a Newbern web site right now and would love to know more about their involvement then.
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Gen. JB Gordan to Gen. Lee
Spottsylvania (counter attack against federal troops)
It appears the 37th was indeed tromping up and down the Neuse River in 1862. If I remember correctly, many of these men were from my home county of Ashe up in the mountains. Must have been strange and difficult terrain for lads who learned to walk on cow paths following the contours around the side of a hill. This is from their regimental history:
37th REGIMENT NC TROOPS
The 37th Regiment N.C. Troops was organized at Camp Fisher, near High Point, where it was mustered into state service for twelve months' active duty on November 20, 1861. Shortly thereafter the regiment moved to Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, where it was transferred to Confederate service effective January 1, 1862. The regiment remained at Camp Mangum until January 10, when it was ordered to New Bern. At that time the regiment was reported to be "imperfectly" armed and "considerably reduced in effective men by sickness, principally measles and mumps." (Official Records, Series I, Vol. IV, p. 719.) At New Bern the regiment went into camp at Camp Tadpole; on February 11 it moved to Camp Lee, below New Bern.
On March 13, 1862, an 11,000-man Federal amphibious force under General Ambrose E. Burnside disembarked seventeen miles below New Bern at Slocum's Creek on the Neuse River and, after advancing within six miles of New Bern, encountered a defensive line manned by 4,000 Confederates under the command of General Lawrence O'B. Branch. On the left, the line was anchored on the Neuse at Fort Thompson, a thirteen-gun earthen installation; from there it extended westward for approximately one mite to the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad where, because of swampy terrain, it was recessed 150 yards at a brickyard. From that point the line, composed of a series of redans, stretched westward behind a small stream called Bullen's Branch. The brickyard "gap" was covered by a militia battalion, armed with shotguns and hunting rifles that had been in service for only two weeks. The 37th Regiment was the third of four regiments to the right of the brickyard.
On March 14 the Federals attacked, quickly routed the militia, and broke through the Confederate line. A Confederate counterattack stabilized the situation momentarily, but a fresh Federal brigade was thrown into the fighting and Branch, seeing his men about to be outflanked, ordered a retreat. The 37th Regiment was divided into two five-company commands during the battle and, although not heavily engaged, was nearly cut off by the Federal breakthrough. After hastily burning its baggage, the regiment fell back towards Kinston with the rest of Branch's men. During the battle the 37th Regiment lost 1 man killed, 3 wounded, and 8 missing.
The defeated Confederates regrouped at Kinston, where the various regiments were brigaded on March 17. The 37th Regiment was assigned to a newly organized brigade under the command of General Branch; other units in the brigade were the 18th Regiment N.C. Troops (8th Regiment N.C. Volunteers), 25th Regiment N.C. Troops, 28th Regiment N.C. Troops, 33rd Regiment N.C. Troops, John N. Whitford's foot artillery battalion, Alexander C. Latham's and Samuel R- Bunting's batteries, and Peter G. Evans's cavalry unit. The 23th Regiment was transferred shortly thereafter and the 7th Regiment N.C. State Troops was assigned to the brigade in its place. The brigade remained in the Kinston area for six weeks, during which time the foot artillery and cavalry units attached to it were reassigned. The 37th Regiment was sent to Camp Relief, eight miles from Kinston, on March 24 but returned to Kinston on April 1. On April 16, 1862, the regiment was reorganized to serve for three years or the duration of the war (rather than for only twelve months).
In early May, 1862, the situation in Virginia, where Federal armies were advancing in the Shenandoah Valley and on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers, became so ominous that troops were transferred there from North Carolina, and Branch's brigade was ordered to the vicinity of Gordonsville.
I see that there were a number of Rouses from Smyth Co. in the 48th Virginia. Would your gt-gt-grandad be John C. Rouse, by any chance? I can see that he did, indeed, "get around"!
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