24th North Carolina

[partssman]

I had 2 ancestors to serve in Company A of the 24th.

Anybody else have ties to this regiment?

Know any good places to research the 24th. I'm about googled out

 

[ole]

Personally don't pay much attention to regiments, but from the habit of reading everything, there's about half a gazillion members who will know exactly where to look. Good luck.
Ole

 

[partssman]

Maybe one of them will ride by before long.

I'm new to the research ancestors thing and so far a lot of it has been less confusing, you know?

 

[ole]

I'm new to the research ancestors thing and so far a lot of it has been less confusing, you know?

Actually, no I don't. The keyboard monster frightens me and my mind is too encrusted to learn how to make it obey. I usually make do by asking.
Ole

 

[amhistoryguy]

Here's the book you want to try to find. You may need to use inter library loan to get it. "Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861 - '65," by Walter Clark. Published about 1901 by the state. A corporal Rose of the 24th wrote an entry on the 24th, pages 269 to 290 of that book.
You can also look for the North Carolina Adjutant General's Report. If you know the county your ancestor came from, check for a historical society. Also look for period newspapers from that area. National Battlefield Parks have archives, many contain letters and diaries from men who fought there. Check out battles that the 24th fought in.
Check the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, at Raleigh, as well as the State Library in Raleigh.

Hope this is of some help.

Regards, Dave Gorski

 

[partssman]

Dave, Thank you. You've been a great help

 

[samgrant]

Just today read something about the 24th NC in What This Cruel War Was Over:

After the 'failure' of the Hampton Roads conference, at Petersburg,

"[Cornelius] Oliver's regiment held a meeting in the wake of the failed conference, and "the vote was put to our company ... whether we were for carrying this war on or whether we ware for peace. The whole company was for stopping." ... When brigade officers learned that "we were for peace," Oliver continued, they "said the dam privates should not have a sayso in it, so they had it publish[ed] that our brigade (Ransom's) was for the war which was an inferal lie.""

(from Oliver's letter to his wife, February 10, 1865)