6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, State Troops

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I cannot seem to find a listing of their standard issue muskets. I have read other tidbits here and there that most NC troops started with 1842 smoothbores but i cant confirm. Also if at some point they switched to Enfields or other rifles, im in the dark.

Does anyone here know what muskets were used by the 6th NC ?
 
I cannot seem to find a listing of their standard issue muskets. I have read other tidbits here and there that most NC troops started with 1842 smoothbores but i cant confirm. Also if at some point they switched to Enfields or other rifles, im in the dark.

Does anyone here know what muskets were used by the 6th NC ?
It's usually best to check the CSR's for whatever time period you are interested in. FYI - there is an original 6th belt plate at the Vance birthplace in Weaverville. Its worth seeing.
 
Pardon the ignorance here but what or where is 'the CSR'?
Sorry, my bad - CSR's are the compiled service records. This is where the hardcore research junkies (the guys who just have to know what caliber ammo was issued to Company B of the 157th Mississippi Sharpshooters) get their info. The nearest set available to me is in Charlotte.
 
Interesting.
Ive seen the cards for my several great grandfather who was in the 6th.
But never seen detail of the unit. Do you have a link where i can read up on the 6th or do you have to go to the library and read old paper?
Thanks
 
I think ancestry.com has access online to the csr's and maybe some others as well. I've never used them myself- merely aware of their existence and I know that a lot of Confederate uniform/equipment buffs use them to figure out who had what and when they got it.
 
The only unit i know of north or south with their own specific belt buckle. Picture here-
http://jamesdjulia.com/item/lot-2366-rare-confederate-6th-infantry-north-carolina-belt-buckle-40833/

Heres a web archive complete history of "The bloody 6th" kind of a hard read due to the messy copy job has extra characters and missing ones but its a neat read.
https://archive.org/stream/bloodysixthsixth00iobs/bloodysixthsixth00iobs_djvu.txt
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?Muster?114&C
 
Thank you.
I know you are a Hoods Texas guy, wasnt the 6th part of Hoods outfit for a time early in the war?
 
Interesting.
Ive seen the cards for my several great grandfather who was in the 6th.
But never seen detail of the unit. Do you have a link where i can read up on the 6th or do you have to go to the library and read old paper?
Thanks
CSR's also can contain unit histories written by captains. They're with the first cards scanned and titled something like "Unit Information." Fold3 is a good place to look at them and sometimes it's free to access their Civil War scans.
 
Thank you.
I know you are a Hoods Texas guy, wasnt the 6th part of Hoods outfit for a time early in the war?
They were part Law's Brigade in Whiting's/Hood's Division throughout 1862 but often found themselves fighting alongside the Texas Brigade. IIRC, the 6th NC was transferred to Hoke's Brigade by 1863.

Hood's Texans are my favorite but I enjoy researching units from all states. Currently working on a thread on the 4th North Carolina Infantry now.
 
A few photos of men who served in the 6th North Carolina....

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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/

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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


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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/

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Cpl. Newton Atlas Branch, Co. D, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/396150667222616/?type=3&theater

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Pvt. George Washington Lyon, Co. H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/375796545924695/?type=3&theater

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Unidentified private, Co. H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/389268057910877/?type=3&theater

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Pvt. Harrison Moore, Co. K, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
https://www.facebook.com/3216892013...1689201335430/382442231926793/?type=3&theater

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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.”
 
Thats really cool. Especially those pictures.
Im still trying to sift through what their primary musket issue was at different points.

That picture above of the unifentified Co H private with the musket, can any if you identify that one from the offside view?
1842 or some kind of cone in conversion?
 
Thats really cool. Especially those pictures.
Im still trying to sift through what their primary musket issue was at different points.

That picture above of the unifentified Co H private with the musket, can any if you identify that one from the offside view?
1842 or some kind of cone in conversion?
I could be wrong but the musket seen in the two photos above looks like it might be a Model 1816 conversion musket. Notice Sgt. Bartlett Yancey Malone is holding the same musket as the unidentified private, probably taken in the same studio. But there's still the possibility that its photographer's prop and not what the regiment or company was actually armed with.
 
USAHEC's Bibliography of the 6th North Carolina:

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center
950 Soldiers Drive
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021
24 Oct 2012

6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

Causby, Thomas E. "Storming the Stone Fence at Gettysburg." Southern Historical Society Papers
29 (1901): pp. 339-41. E483.7.S76.v29.

Clark, Walter, editor. Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the
Great War, 1861-'65.... Vol. 1 & 2. Wendell, NC: Broadfoot, 1982. pp. 293-359 & pp. 581-85. E573.4.C59.v1. (Unit history and roster of officers).

Clem, Richard E. “Etches in Blood.” Gettysburg Magazine No. 38: pp. 59-60 & 68-68-71.
E475.53.G482.no38.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent, 1987.
p. 216. E546.C78. (Concise summary of the regiment's service).

"I Died With My Face to the Enemy." Virginia Country's Civil War (1985): pp. 44-46. Per.
Colonel Isaac Avery of the 6th who died as temporary brigade commander during the Gettysburg Campaign.

Iobst, Richard W. The Bloody Sixth: The Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of
America. Raleigh, NC: NC Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965. 493 p. E573.5.6th.I6.

Malone, Bartlett Yancey. Whipt 'em Every Time: The Diary of…Co. H, 6th N.C. Regiment. [Edited by
William W. Pierson]Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer, 1960. 131 p. E605.M252.

Manarin, Louis H., compiler. North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster. Vol. 4. Raleigh, NC:
Office of Archives & History, 1973. pp. 258-67. E573.3.M3.v4. (Brief history of the regiment; subsequent pages contain a unit roster).

Mangum, William P., II. "Prison Chaplain and Historian." Civil War Times Illustrated (Nov/Dec 1993):
p. 114. Per.

Mast, Greg. “‘A Sickening, Heart-rendering Sight”: 6th Regiment North Carolina State Troops at the
Battle of First Manassas.” Military Images Magazine (Sep/Oct 1997): pp. 22-28. Per.

Moore, John W. Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War between the States. Vol. 1. Raleigh, NC:
Ashe & Gatling, 1882. pp. 197-236. E573.3.N87.v1. (Unit roster).

Schipke, Norman C. We Can Hear the Yankee Drums Beating: Sim Carrington and the Bloody 6th North
Carolina. NC: Norman Carrington Schipke, 2001. 279 p. E573.5.6th.S34.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina. NY: Facts on File, 1992.
pp. 91-93. E573.S53. (Unit organizational history).

York, Richard W. "Gen. Hood's Release From Arrest, an Incident of the Battle of Boonesboro."
Our Living and Our Dead (1875): pp. 420-23. E482.O93.v2.

_____. "The 'Old Third' Brigade and the Death of General Bee." Our Living and Our Dead
(1874/75): pp. 561-66. E482.O93.v1.


The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:

Causby, Thomas E. - BrakeColl (Enlisted man's account of Gettysburg)
Clover, N.T. - LeighColl Book 25: 70-72 (Private's letters, Apr 6-May 14, 1864)
Malone, Bartlett Y. - BrakeColl (Sergeant's diary, Jul-Oct 1863)
Tate, Samuel McD. - BrakeColl (Colonel's brief history of regiment, Dec 1862-Jul 5, 1863)
 
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