A few photos of men who served in the 6th North Carolina....
Quarter plate tintype of 1st Lt. Wyatt Brent Allen, Company I, 6th North Carolina Infantry. Allen was wounded at Sharpsburg, wounded again at Gettysburg and captured at Rappahannock Station on 8 November 1863, ending up a POW at Fort Delaware. He was one of the prisoners sent to Fort Pulaski (Georgia) and used as a human shield. . . One of the Immortal 600.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/1st-lt-wyatt-brent-allen-6th-north-carolina-immortal-600.130470/
Sgt. Bartlett Yancey Malone, Co. H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/sgt-bartlett-yancey-malone-co-h-6th-north-carolina-infantry.113026/
Bartlett Yancey Malone was born in Caswell County, North Carolina in 1838. In 1861, when he was twenty-three, he left farming to enter the Civil War. He fought with the 6th North Carolina regiment throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, rising in the ranks from private to sergeant. On November 7, 1863 he was captured by the Union Army and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he remained until February 24, 1865. The University of North Carolina published his journal posthumously, with a preface by its editor, William Whatley Pierson, Jr., in 1919.
Malone's diary can be read here:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/malone/malone.html
Sgt. Willie Meadows, Co. B, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
Resided in Orange County where he enlisted at age 23, May 1, 1861 for the war. Mustered in as a private. Wounded in the leg at Malvern Hill. July 1, 1862. Appointed corporal on April 1, 1863. Captured at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 4, 1863, and confined at Fort Delaware, Delaware, until paroled and exchanged on May 23, 1863. Captured at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, November 7, 1863, and confined at Point lookout Maryland, until paroled and transferred to Aiken’s Landing, James River, Virginia, September 18, 1864 for exchange. Paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865. Rank given on parole as sergeant
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/willie-meadows-co-b-6th-north-carolina-infantry.93642/
Cpl. Newton Atlas Branch, Co. D, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/396150667222616/?type=3&theater
Pvt. George Washington Lyon, Co. H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/375796545924695/?type=3&theater
Unidentified private, Co. H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/389268057910877/?type=3&theater
Pvt. Harrison Moore, Co. K, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/382442231926793/?type=3&theater
Pvt. Henry Speck Harris, Co. B "Flat River Guards", 6th North Carolina Infantry.
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/dig_nccpa/id/5195/rec/2
Harris resided in Granville County and enlisted in Orange County at age 22, May 1, 1861, for the war. He is listed as “Present” from the date of his enlistment on May 1, 1861 through May 31, 1862 when he is listed as “
Killed at Seven Pines, Virginia, May 31,1862.”