Overview
This historical account covers the 25th Regiment North Carolina Infantry Troops during the Civil War. Farmers and farmers' sons left their mountain homesteads to enlist with the regiment at Asheville in July and August 1861 and to defend their homeland from a Yankee invasion. The book chronicles the unit's defensive activities in the Carolina coastal regions and the battlefield actions at Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Plymouth, Richmond and Petersburg. In addition, casualty and desertion statistics are included, along with a complete regimental roster and 118 photos, illustrations, and maps.
- | Author: Carroll C. Jones
- | Publisher: McFarland & Company
- | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 324 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0786495553
- | ISBN-13: 9780786495559
