22nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment

The regiment was formed on July 11, 1861 near Raleigh (North Carolina) and was originally called the 12th North Carolina Volunteer Regiment (12th North Carolina Volunteers). The regiment companies were recruited in the counties of Caldwell, MacDowell, Surry, Ash, Gilford, Elleni, Casswell, Stokes and Randolph. The regiment began to be formed from 12 companies, but company C was transferred to the 28th North Carolina infantry regiment as company A, and company D was transferred to the 26th Severokarolinsky as company A. The first commander of the regiment was Johnston Pettigrew, and Lt. Col. John Long ( West Point graduate ), Major - Thomas Galway, graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. At the time of formation, the regiment totaled 1,000 people in 10 companies.

Almost immediately after the formation, the regiment was sent to Richmond, and from there to northern Virginia to Evansport, where autumn and winter stood. In March, the regiment was part of the Samuel French brigade and was withdrawn from the Potomac River to the Rappahanock River, from there to the Virgin Peninsula, and then assigned to Richmond. There Colonel Pettigrew received the rank of Brigadier General, and Charles Lightfoot became Colonel, in the past - Colonel of the 6th North Carolina Regiment. Under his command, the regiment participated in the Battle of Seven Pines , where he fought in the Pettigrew brigade, as part of the Gustavus Smith division. In this battle, General Pettigrew and Colonel Lightfoot were captured, the captain of company A, Thomas Jones, was killed, and the total losses of the regiment amounted to 147 people.

After the battle, the regiment was reorganized. South Carolinian James Conner became a colonel, Captain Robert Gray became a lieutenant colonel, and Captain Columbus Kohl became a major. The regiment was brought together with the 16th, 34th and 38th North Carolina regiments into a new brigade, led by General William Pender .

In the Pender brigade, the regiment went through the Seven-Day Battle , in particular, the Battle of Mechanicsville on June 26, where Colonel Connor was seriously wounded and Lt. Col. Gray took command. The regiment participated in the battles at Gains Mill and at Glendale. After completing the company on the peninsula, the 22nd Severokarolinsky, along with the entire Hill Light Division , was transferred to northern Virginia and participated in the battle of Cedar Hill, where he was attacked by the federal cavalry. Soon, Lieutenant Colonel Gray was out of action due to illness and was replaced by Major Kohl, who commanded the regiment in the second battle of Bull Run and Chantilly.

When the Maryland campaign began, the regiment participated in the siege of Harpers Ferry , from where it was transferred to Sharpsberg and managed to take part in the final of the battle of Entity . After the army retreated from Sharpsberg, the regiment participated in a rear-guard battle at Shepherdstown. Soon after this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Gray returned to the stand. Until November 22, Hill's division stood near Martinsburg, then was transferred to Frederiksberg, where it arrived on December 2 and participated in the battle of Frederiksberg on December 13.

The regiment spent the whole winter near Frederiksberg. Colonel Connor returned to the regiment, although the wound so far did not allow him to fulfill his duties. March 16, he died. Major Kohl was then promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In May, the regiment participated in the battle of Chancelorsville , where it suffered heavy losses. Colonel Kohl and Major Odell were wounded, 219 privates and 26 (out of 33) officers were killed and wounded.

• Hicks, George W., North Carolina Confederate Regiments: 1861, PublishAmerica, 2012 ISBN 146269120X
• Weymouth T. Jordan, Jr. and Louis H. Manarin, “North Carolina Troops (1861-1865): A Roster” Office of Archives and History: Raleigh, NC 1973, ISBN 1626368112

• 22nd North Carolina Infantry Regimental History - Histories of the Several Regiments from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-65, Volume 2, Written by Members of the Respective Commands, Edited by Walter Clark, Lieutenant Colonel Seventeenth Regiment NCT, Published by the State, 1901