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Company F (the “Hibriten Guards”), 26th Regiment N.C. Troops achieved a terrible fame at the Battle of Gettysburg. During the fight against the Iron Brigade on McPherson’s Ridge on July 1, every member of the company present was shot down:…

John Burton Holloway and his wife Victoria, recently married, farmed in the Patterson District of Caldwell County. On July 15, 1861, Holloway enlisted at Lenoir in the company known as the “Hibriten Guards,” subsequently Company F, 26th Regiment N.C.…

Abner Burgess Hayes (born October 21, 1839) farmed with his parents and eight siblings in the Summers District, Caldwell County. The family was prosperous and owned one slave.

Abner enlisted at Lenoir on July 15, 1861, in the “Hibriten Guards,”…

John W. McDaniel (born ca. 1833), a farmer from the Middle District of Chatham County, enlisted at Cartersville on May 28, 1861, in the “Chatham Independent Guards,” subsequently Company E, 26th Regiment N.C. Troops. McDaniel mustered into service as…

Mitchell M. Plummer (born ca. 1838) lived in the South Eastern District of Ashe County, evidently as a farm laborer. He enlisted as a private at Jefferson on May 17, 1861, in Ashe County’s first company, known variously as the “Jeff Davis Mountain…