56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

Luke Freet

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Organized in July of 1862.
Command consisted of Paul F. Faison (Colonel), G. Gratiott Luke (Lt. Colonel), and Major John W. Graham
Regiment first saw service in its home state fighting U.S. troops at Goldsboro. It was then assigned to Mark W. Ransom's brigade (veterans of the Peninsula Campaign, Harper's Ferry, Antietam and at Fredericksburg). Fought at Gum Creek (where 149 members were captured), Plymouth (where it lost 4 killed and 84 wounded) and Drewry's Bluff. It fought under Beauregard at Ware Bottom Church (losing 90 men), before entrenching in Petersburg as part of Bushrod Johnson's division. Most of the unit was overrun and captured at Sayler's Creek. At Appomattox, only 9 officers and 62 men surrendered.

Tangent: Am currently looking for information on Colonel Faison and Ltc. Luke. If anyone has details on them, that'd be swell.
 
Fought at Gum Creek (where 149 members were captured)....and Drewry's Bluff.....before entrenching in Petersburg
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The Hillsborough Recorder. (Hillsborough, N.C.), June 03, 1863, page 2.
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The Hillsborough Recorder. (Hillsborough, N.C.), June 01, 1864, page 3.
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The Daily Confederate. (Raleigh, NC), July 21, 1864, page 1.
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The Charlotte Democrat. (Charlotte, N.C.), March 13, 1896, page 3.
 
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Greetings Luke Freet

56th​ Regiment by Captain Robert D. Graham Company D page 313

This regiment was composed of 10 companies which assembled at Camp Mangum 4 miles west of Raleigh in the Spring and Summer of 1862.

Company A Camden County mainly as 12 month volunteers, they had formed a part of the detachment captured at Hatteras August 29, 1861 and had recently been exchanged. Captain G. Gratiott Luke April 1861, elected Lieutenant Colonel July 31, 1862.

Colonel Paul F. Faison had been Major of 14th​ North Carolina Regiment (Northampton) Class of 1861 at West Point.
 
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