Louis Bryson Flack
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Title
Louis Bryson Flack
Subject
Company G (the "Rutherford Farmers"), 50th Regiment N.C. Troops
Description
Louis Bryson Flack (born 1838) resided with his parents and three siblings in the Cathey’s Creek District of Rutherford County. His father was a blacksmith, but Flack’s occupation is unknown.
He enlisted on May 12, 1862, in a local company known as the “Rutherford Farmers,” subsequently Company G, 50th Regiment N.C. Troops. Surviving muster rolls cover only nine months of Company G’s three year history, but Flack is reported present on all of them. In December 1862 he was on “extra duty” at a sawmill, and his name also appears on a clothing receipt roll for the third quarter of 1864.
Flack was seriously ill during early 1865 with intermittent fever, and, with the exception of a few days, was hospitalized continuously from February 6 to March 11. He returned to duty on the latter date and rejoined his regiment. At the Battle of Bentonville on March 19 the 50th North Carolina was heavily engaged in a Confederate attack late in the day. As many as one third of those present were killed or wounded, but lack of records prevents any estimation of the number of casualties. The names of a few are known. One was Lewis B. Flack. He, with more than three hundred other Confederates who died at Bentonville, is buried in the Confederate Cemetery at the Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site, Four Oaks, Johnston County.
He enlisted on May 12, 1862, in a local company known as the “Rutherford Farmers,” subsequently Company G, 50th Regiment N.C. Troops. Surviving muster rolls cover only nine months of Company G’s three year history, but Flack is reported present on all of them. In December 1862 he was on “extra duty” at a sawmill, and his name also appears on a clothing receipt roll for the third quarter of 1864.
Flack was seriously ill during early 1865 with intermittent fever, and, with the exception of a few days, was hospitalized continuously from February 6 to March 11. He returned to duty on the latter date and rejoined his regiment. At the Battle of Bentonville on March 19 the 50th North Carolina was heavily engaged in a Confederate attack late in the day. As many as one third of those present were killed or wounded, but lack of records prevents any estimation of the number of casualties. The names of a few are known. One was Lewis B. Flack. He, with more than three hundred other Confederates who died at Bentonville, is buried in the Confederate Cemetery at the Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site, Four Oaks, Johnston County.
Creator
E. Hunt, Raleigh, North Carolina
Source
1860 U. S. Census, Cathey’s Creek District, Rutherford County, North Carolina, population schedule, page 98, dwelling 110, family 110, J. J. Flack household; Manarin et. al., North Carolina Troops 12:147-148, 215, 218; service record files of Lewis B. Flack, 50th Regiment N.C. Troops, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers from the State of North Carolina (M270), RG109, NA.
Contributor
David Rotan, descendant.
Files
Citation
E. Hunt, Raleigh, North Carolina, “Louis Bryson Flack,” Tar Heel Faces, accessed May 16, 2024, https://tarheelfaces.omeka.net/items/show/105.
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