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30th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, in October, 1861. The men were raised in the following counties: Sampson, Warren, Brunswick, Wake, Nash, Granville, Duplin, Edgecombe, Moore, and Mecklenburg. It served in the Department of North Carolina, then was assigned to General G.B. Anderson's, Ramseur's, and Cox's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 30th saw action from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, marched with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, and was involved in the Appomattox operations. The unit reported 30 killed and 137 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, lost thirty-six percent of the 250 in the Maryland Campaign, and had 9 wounded at Fredericksburg. It sustained 125 casualties at Chancellorsville, lost sixteen percent of the 278 engaged at Gettysburg, and had 3 killed and 42 wounded on the Rappahannock River. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 6 officers and 147 men. The field officers wre Colonel Francis M. Parker; Lieutenant Colonels Walter Draughan, James T. Kell, and William W. Sillers; and Major James C. Holmes.
 
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The 30thNCT under Gen Cox’s was assigned to Early’s command in the Valley District. Some time that fall the Regiment was issued 5th bunting battle flag- possibly from the Staunton Depot. This flag served her regiment untill April 1865, where under the command of Capt D.C. Allen, was surrendered along with 6 officers and 147 enlisted.

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William Howey (August 30, 1819-April 10, 1873), a Mecklenburg County farmer, and his eldest son, John Hoyle Howey (August 28, 1844- January 18, 1911), enlisted together as privates in Company K ( the “Mecklenburg Beauregards”), 30th Regiment N.C. Troops, on September 13, 1861. The rigors of camp life proved too harsh for the elder Howey, and he was discharged on February 13, 1862, suffering from “dropsy.”

John served until captured at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, probably when Federal troops overran the position of the 30th North Carolina in “Bloody Lane.” On the following day, he entered U.S. General Hospital No. 1 in Frederick, Maryland, but it is unknown whether from a wound or illness. John was paroled on September 27, 1862. Presumably, he was also exchanged, for he returned to duty with the regiment before January 1, 1863. He was hospitalized again in May or June 1863, cause unknown, but was present on all other surviving muster rolls of his company until wounded at the Battle of Third Winchester, Virginia, September 19, 1864. John returned to duty on an unspecified date and was one of the 153 members of the 30th North Carolina to surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Both father and son are clad in identical six-button sack coats with black epaulets, as called for in the North Carolina adjutant general's 1861 uniform regulations. They are holding M1816 or M1842 U.S. Muskets, caliber .69. Their belt plates are rectangular, either plain or with an indistinct device.

Image: Ambrotype in the possession of David King, descendant.

Source: Greg Mast, State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers, Volume 1, p.188 (image on page 176).
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/wi...ompany-k-30th-north-carolina-infantry.126248/


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Private James Matthew Parker, Company A (the "Sampson Rangers"), 30th Regiment N.C. Troops

During the advance of Ramseur’s Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville on the morning of May 3,1863, General Ramseur encountered a battery commanded by Major William J. Pegram of Virginia. The major applied for infantry support for his battery, and the general obliged by detaching the 30th Regiment N.C. Troops, commanded by Colonel Francis Parker. As the Confederate line moved further east, the necessity for Parker’s support ended, and the colonel moved the 30th North Carolina at an oblique angle to his left, so that the regiment would join the right of the brigade.

As the 30th North Carolina approached, an enemy attack was threatening the brigade’s right and rear. Parker’s command was squarely on the flank of the attacking column and quickly repulsed it, taking several hundred prisoners. A later attack by the 30th North Carolina drove the Yankees further east, the regiment capturing an enemy battery.

Casualties in the 30th North Carolina were the least of any regiment in Ramseur’s Brigade, but were still quite severe: thirty-nine men were killed or mortally wounded in action, and eighty-one wounded. (The regiment lost no one captured.)

One of the wounded was Private James Matthew Parker of Company A (the “Sampson Rangers”). Parker was a resident of Sampson County and enlisted on September 1, 1861. Except for a twenty-five day furlough in November 1862, presumably for an illness, Parker served until his wounding at Chancellorsville. He returned to duty before September 1, 1863, and was marked present on the few surviving documents from his company that date from the latter part of the war. Parker was one of the 156 members of the 30th Regiment N.C. Troops who received paroles at Appomattox Court House. According to family tradition, he walked the entire distance from Appomattox to his home in Sampson County.

Parker (November 8, 1835-April 15, 1904) is buried at McGee United Methodist Church, Clinton, Sampson County.

Image: N.C. Office of Archives and History.
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I've also done a thread on the 4th North Carolina Infantry, which served in the same brigade - G.B. Anderson's/Ramseur's/Cox's North Carolina Brigade - throughout most of the war:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/4th-north-carolina-infantry.131772/


The brigade consisted of the 2nd, 4th, 14th, and 30th North Carolina Infantry and served as part of D.H. Hill's/Rodes' Division, Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. It fought through most of the major battles in the Eastern Theater - Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, the Sunken Road at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Oak Ridge at Gettysburg, the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania, etc.


As I posted in that other thread:
Anderson's/Ramseur's/Cox's North Carolina Brigade gained a reputation in the Army of Northern Virginia as one of the army's best. Well commanded and drilled, their actions particularly stood out at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. After their performance at Chancellorsville, Gen. Lee sent a letter to Gov. Zebulon Vance concerning Ramseur's Brigade, in which he stated that, "I consider its brigade and regimental commanders as among the best of their respective grades in the army...." In a well-known incident in the last days of the war, when the army was on its retreat from Petersburg, Gen. Lee noticed a small but very orderly-looking brigade marching past and asked a nearby aide just what brigade that was. The reply was "Cox's North Carolina Brigade." "God bless gallant old North Carolina." said Gen. Lee, removing his hat and bowing his head.
 
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