Company A - The Jeff Davis Mountaineers
Company A, Captain Andrew N. McMillan's Company was formed at Jefferson, Ashe County North Carolina on May 17, 1861. The company soon traveled to Raleigh and was designated Company D, 22nd North Carolina State Troops but was withdrawn from that regiment before going into the field. The company was subsequently assigned as Company A of the 26th North Carolina State Troops.
Officers:
Andrew N. McMillan, Captain
George R. Reeves, 1st Lieutenant
Jesse A. Reeves, 2nd Lieutenant
James Porter, Junior 2nd Lieutenant
Perhaps the most distinguished regiment in the Confederate Army, the 26th North Carolina was organized in Raleigh, North Carolina in the late summer of 1861. It served on the coast of North Carolina until mid-1862, when sent to Richmond to assist in repelling General McClellan in the pensinsular campaign of 1862. After spending the summer in Virginia, it returned to eastern North Carolina in the fall and remained there until ordered north to join General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the invasion of Pennsylvania.
While the regiment had fought at New Bern in March 1862 and around Richmond in June and July 1862 and in minor skirmishes in the fall of 1862, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the first major test for the regiment, led by Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., one of the youngest regimental commanders in the Southern army. The regiment's performance at Gettysburg was enough to guarantee their place in history, sustaining more casualties than any other unit of the size on the field.
After a period when the regiment feared it would be consolidated or disbanded due to its losses at Gettysburg, it successfully reorganized itself, and by mid-1864, was again the largest regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. It fought gallantly at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and in the Petersburg siege.
The remnant of the once proud regiment surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 with 130 men.
by Claude Wells
Company A, Captain Andrew N. McMillan's Company was formed at Jefferson, Ashe County North Carolina on May 17, 1861. The company soon traveled to Raleigh and was designated Company D, 22nd North Carolina State Troops but was withdrawn from that regiment before going into the field. The company was subsequently assigned as Company A of the 26th North Carolina State Troops.
Officers:
Andrew N. McMillan, Captain
George R. Reeves, 1st Lieutenant
Jesse A. Reeves, 2nd Lieutenant
James Porter, Junior 2nd Lieutenant
Perhaps the most distinguished regiment in the Confederate Army, the 26th North Carolina was organized in Raleigh, North Carolina in the late summer of 1861. It served on the coast of North Carolina until mid-1862, when sent to Richmond to assist in repelling General McClellan in the pensinsular campaign of 1862. After spending the summer in Virginia, it returned to eastern North Carolina in the fall and remained there until ordered north to join General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the invasion of Pennsylvania.
While the regiment had fought at New Bern in March 1862 and around Richmond in June and July 1862 and in minor skirmishes in the fall of 1862, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the first major test for the regiment, led by Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., one of the youngest regimental commanders in the Southern army. The regiment's performance at Gettysburg was enough to guarantee their place in history, sustaining more casualties than any other unit of the size on the field.
After a period when the regiment feared it would be consolidated or disbanded due to its losses at Gettysburg, it successfully reorganized itself, and by mid-1864, was again the largest regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. It fought gallantly at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and in the Petersburg siege.
The remnant of the once proud regiment surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 with 130 men.
by Claude Wells
Company A - The Jeff Davis Mountaineers
Company A, Captain Andrew N. McMillan's Company was formed at Jefferson, Ashe County North Carolina on May 17, 1861. The company soon traveled to Raleigh and was designated Company D, 22nd North Carolina State Troops but was withdrawn from that regiment before going into the field. The company was subsequently assigned as Company A of the 26th North Carolina State Troops.
Officers:
Andrew N. McMillan, Captain
George R. Reeves, 1st Lieutenant
Jesse A. Reeves, 2nd Lieutenant
James Porter, Junior 2nd Lieutenant
Perhaps the most distinguished regiment in the Confederate Army, the 26th North Carolina was organized in Raleigh, North Carolina in the late summer of 1861. It served on the coast of North Carolina until mid-1862, when sent to Richmond to assist in repelling General McClellan in the pensinsular campaign of 1862. After spending the summer in Virginia, it returned to eastern North Carolina in the fall and remained there until ordered north to join General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the invasion of Pennsylvania.
While the regiment had fought at New Bern in March 1862 and around Richmond in June and July 1862 and in minor skirmishes in the fall of 1862, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the first major test for the regiment, led by Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., one of the youngest regimental commanders in the Southern army. The regiment's performance at Gettysburg was enough to guarantee their place in history, sustaining more casualties than any other unit of the size on the field.
After a period when the regiment feared it would be consolidated or disbanded due to its losses at Gettysburg, it successfully reorganized itself, and by mid-1864, was again the largest regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. It fought gallantly at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and in the Petersburg siege.
The remnant of the once proud regiment surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 with 130 men.
by Claude Wells
Company A, Captain Andrew N. McMillan's Company was formed at Jefferson, Ashe County North Carolina on May 17, 1861. The company soon traveled to Raleigh and was designated Company D, 22nd North Carolina State Troops but was withdrawn from that regiment before going into the field. The company was subsequently assigned as Company A of the 26th North Carolina State Troops.
Officers:
Andrew N. McMillan, Captain
George R. Reeves, 1st Lieutenant
Jesse A. Reeves, 2nd Lieutenant
James Porter, Junior 2nd Lieutenant
Perhaps the most distinguished regiment in the Confederate Army, the 26th North Carolina was organized in Raleigh, North Carolina in the late summer of 1861. It served on the coast of North Carolina until mid-1862, when sent to Richmond to assist in repelling General McClellan in the pensinsular campaign of 1862. After spending the summer in Virginia, it returned to eastern North Carolina in the fall and remained there until ordered north to join General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the invasion of Pennsylvania.
While the regiment had fought at New Bern in March 1862 and around Richmond in June and July 1862 and in minor skirmishes in the fall of 1862, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the first major test for the regiment, led by Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., one of the youngest regimental commanders in the Southern army. The regiment's performance at Gettysburg was enough to guarantee their place in history, sustaining more casualties than any other unit of the size on the field.
After a period when the regiment feared it would be consolidated or disbanded due to its losses at Gettysburg, it successfully reorganized itself, and by mid-1864, was again the largest regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. It fought gallantly at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and in the Petersburg siege.
The remnant of the once proud regiment surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 with 130 men.
by Claude Wells
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