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  1. The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was raised on 16 January 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army. In April, Jethro Sumner was appointed colonel. The regiment was present at the defense of Charleston in June 1776. The 3rd Regiment transferred from the Southern Department to George Washington 's main army in ...

  2. 1861. May 16. The 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment was organized for state service at Garysburg in Northampton County, under the command of Colonel W. Gaston Meares, Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Cowan, and Major William L. DeRosset.Company A – Greene County – Captain Robert H. Drysdale. Company B – Duplin – Captain Stephen D ...

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  4. The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was authorized on January 16, 1776 by the General Assembly. On February 27, 1776, it was assigned to the Southern Department, even though it was not yet organized. The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was organized April 15, 1776 at Wilmington. It included eight companies from Halifax, Edenton, and Hillsborough Districts.

  5. * The above was written by former Captains John Cowan and James Metts on April 9, 1900, and provided as Pages 177-214, in the compilation known as "Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65 - Volume I," edited by Walter Clark, and published by E. M. Uzzell, Printer and Binder, in 1901.

  6. The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was raised on 16 January 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army. In April, Jethro Sumner was appointed colonel. The regiment was present at the defense of Charleston in June 1776. The 3rd Regiment transferred from the Southern Department to George Washington's main army in February 1777. Assigned to Francis Nash's North Carolina ...

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