"The average age of a soldier in either army was 25. The minimum age for enlistment was 18, but recruiting officers were not particular. Drummer boys as young as nine signed on. Charles E King, musician in 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was 12 when he enlisted, and thought to be the youngest combat soldier in the solder. He would be killed at Antietam. Two out of three Confederate soldiers were farmers or farmers' sons. So were half the Union men, and a quarter of them were foreign-born. The average soldier was 5 feet, 8.25 inches tall and weighed 143.5 pounds. A third of southern soldiers could neither read nor write. The chance of dying in combat was one in 65. One in 10 would be wounded. One in 13 would die of disease."

from The Civil War:Companion Book to PBS Series


The confederate veterans recorded on the list below have military records that are available from various resources. You may need to consult more than one resource to obtain pertinent details. This grouping of Regiments and Companies allows you to see the names of men who may have served with your person of interest. Although most of these men served under the flag of North Carolina, some of them served under the flag of a different state, namely Georgia and Texas. Georgia dissolved their relationship with the United States on 19 January 1861. Texas dissolved their relationship with the United States on 1 February 1861, which was ratified 23 February 1861. North Carolina dissolved their relationship with the United States on 20 May 1861.

* died 1861–1865.

Confederate States of America
Regiments & Companies
1861–1865


3rd Regiment GA Volunteer Troops
• 2nd Company I
John B Franklin Peed *


5th Regiment TX Volunteer Troops
• Company D
James Tomlinson *
John Tomlinson *


4th Regiment NC State Militia
(14th Regiment NC Troops)
Tillman Farrow Flowers
Josephus Peed
Charles S Robason
Jesse J Robason


1st Battalion NC Local Defense Troops
• Company A
Marshall L Stilley

• Company B
Alexander H Stilley
Stephen Whitford Stilley

• Company C
Hiram E Stilley

• Company F
Henry W Rowe
John Tillman Rowe


1st Battalion NC Heavy Artillery
• Company C
Henry E Smaw


2nd Regiment NC State Troops
• Company I
John L Bland *
Issac P Dowty
Alfred D Rawls
Edward S Smaw *
William Archibald Walker

• Company K
John Q Smithwick *


3rd Regiment NC State Troops
• Company I
Miles C Warren
Thomas H Warren


4th Regiment NC State Troops
• Company E
Solomon Caton
Henry Hudnell
Elzy H Jones
John Franklin Jones
John W Pate
William Joseph Ross
Henry Democ Stilley
William Levi Stilley
Amariah B Warren

• Company I
David R Bennett
John R Boyd
Willis Callaway *
Alva D Caton
Benjamin W Caton *
Hyman Robinson Caton
John B Evett *
Amariah B Hudnell *
Jeremiah Hudnell *
James Henry Jewell
Caswell Jones
Edward S Jones *
John A Norman *
William Riley Norman
Bryan D Peed
Harmon Gasten L Peed
Josephus Pickering *
Richard T Pickering
Noah P Purser
Wiley Purser *
Benjamin Burton Ross
David S Rowe *
George Riley Rowe *
George W Rowe *
John G Rowe
Noah David Rowe
Jesse Scott
Charles Tripp *
Redding G Tuten *
Redding Roberson Tuten *
Edward Benson White


10th Regiment NC State Troops
(1st Regiment NC Artillery)
• Company B
John Scott Caton
William Z Caton
James R Jewell

10th Regiment NC State Troops
(1st Regiment NC Artillery)
• 1st Company I
Jesse Robinson Callaway
Charles Stewart Dixon
Henry A Gaskins
Levin Gaskins
Gideon B Rice
Robert Fountain Stilley
Roberson Rodman Warren
Weston Gates Yeates


17th Regiment NC Troops
• Company K
Azariah Jones *


19th Regiment NC Troops
(2nd Regiment NC Cavalry)
• Company E
William Riley Lane *

• Company G
William H Warren


27th Regiment NC Troops
• Company H
James Benjamin Quartermus


31st Regiment NC Troops
• Company K
Alfred O'Neal Warren


40th Regiment NC Troops
(3rd Regiment NC Artillery)
• Company B
Elijah E Callaway
John B Callaway
John Jones Edwards
Harvey Evett
William C Everett
Christopher C Flowers
Bennett H Gerrard *
Arden Andrew Hodges
David B Hudnell
Joshua Hudnell
Willis B Hudnell
Charles E S Mayo
Gustavus D Pate *
William Riley Peed
James R Purser
Jesse D Purser
Samuel Lane Purser
Absalom Tuten Rowe *
John Riley Ross
Isaiah Smithwick *
William Henry Tripp
Wilson Tuten
Henry Owen Warren
Joshua H Warren
Lewis Joseph Warren *
William H Warren

• Company C
Richard Alexander Cratch
Horace O Everett *
Thomas B Everett *

• Company D
Jesse W Caton
Matthew Prescott Caton *
Benjamin S Dixon *
Riley Gaskins *
Joseph Burney Tingle *

• 1st Company H
John Allen Bland *
Stephen Edward Whitford

• Company I
John Stancel Hudnell
William Martin Jarvis
Thomas Atkins Ellison Tuten


41st Regiment NC Troops
(3rd Regiment NC Cavalry)
• Company K
Ozias Bennett Bridgman
Burton T Stilley


55th Regiment NC Troops
• Company A
Wiley Willis Tomlinson


67th Regiment NC Troops
• Company A
Absalom B Tuten
John William E Warren