Parham Kirk, Private, Company K, 28th Regiment North Carolina Infantry (State Troops), enlisted October 31, 1864** at Albemarle by Col. Simpson for the duration of the war, captured at Petersburg April 2, 1862, arrived City Point, Va. April 4, released from Point Lookout, Maryland prison camp on taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States, June 28, 1865, resident of Stanley County, N.C., light complexion, gray hair, blue eyes, 6'1/2"
** If this is your man, born in 1814, he would have been 50 years of age, the conscription age was raised to the age of 50 in February 1864. Thus, I would believe he would have been conscripted into the Confederate army.
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Parham S. Kirk, Volunteer, age 32, resident of Stanly County, Private, Company I, 52nd Regiment North Carolina Infantry (State Troops), enlisted April 28, 1862 at Albemarle, by W. J. Ross for 3 years of the war, left on the battlefield at Gettysburg July 3, 1863, carried on the company muster roll of January 23, 1864 and those thereafter, as having been taken prisoner, no further records
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Parham Kirk, Volunteer, Private, Captain J. M. Kesler's Company (Cabarrus Hornets), 33rd Regiment North Carolina Infantry (State Troops)*, enlisted at Raleigh, N. C. November 9, 1861, assigned extra duty as a Cook, April 25, 1862, employed during the month of June, 1863 on extra duty as a Blacksmith, shoeing animals, repairing wagons, etc.,** listed as missing since the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., recorded as a prisoner in the hands of the enemy on the September & October, 1863 muster roll, later, on the March & April, 1864 muster roll listed as absent, "Reported to have taken the oath of allegiance," subscribed to Oath of Allegiance to the United States at Fort Delaware, Del. prison camp, May, 1865, released May 10, description: resident of Cabanas County, N. C., light complexion, grey hair, gray eyes, 5' 5"/5' 7", born in Stanly, N. C., age 47 on enlistment, Blacksmith
* This company was successively designated at Captain Kesler's Company, Company E and Company C, 33rd Regiment North Carolina Infatnry (State Troops)
** This card in his file recorded as 53rd N. C., but (33) written over and filed with the records of the 33rd N. C.
M270: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of North Carolina
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28th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
28th Infantry Regiment was organized and mustered into Confederate service in September, 1861, at High Point, North Carolina. Its members were from the counties of Surry, Gaston, Catawba, Stanley, Montgomery, Yadkin, Orange, and Cleveland. The unit moved to New Bern and arrived just as the troops were withdrawing from that fight. Ordered to Virginia in May, 1862, it was assigned to General Branch's and Lane's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought at Hanover Court House and many conflicts of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. The 28th was then involved in the long Petersburg siege south of the James River and the Appomattox operations. It came to Virginia with 1,199 men, lost thirty-three percent of the 480 engaged during the Seven Days' Battles, and had 3 killed and 26 wounded at Cedar Mountain and 5 killed and 45 wounded at Second Manassas. The regiment reported 65 casualties at Fredericksburg and 89 at Chancellorsville. Of the 346 in action at Gettysburg, more than forty percent were killed, wounded, or missing. It surrendered 17 officers and 213 men. Its commanders were Colonels James H. Lane, Samuel D. Lowe, and William H.A. Speer; Lieutenant Colonels William D. Barringer and Thomas L. Lowe; and Majors William J. Montgomery, Richard E. Reeves, and S.N. Stowe.
33rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
33rd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at the old fair grounds at Raleigh, Norht Carolina, in September, 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Iredell, Edgecombe, Cabarrus, Wilkes, Gates, Hyde, Cumberland, Forsyth, and Greene. After fighting at New Bern, the unit moved to Virginia and saw action at Hanover Court House. It served under Generals Branch and Lane and participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. Later it took its place in the Petersburg trenches and was involved in the Appomattox operations. This regiment sustained 75 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 36 at Cedar Mountain, 8 at Second Manassas, and 41 at Fredericksburg. It lost forty-two percent of the 480 engaged at Chancellorsville and twenty percent of the 368 at Gettysburg. The unit reported 4 killed and 19 wounded at Spotsylvania and 5 killed, 29 wounded, and 4 missing at Jericho Mills. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 11 officers and 108 men. The field officers were Colonels Clark M. Avery, Lawrence O. Branch, and Robert V. Cowan; Lieutenant Colonels Robert F. Hoke and J.H. Saunders; and Majors William G. Lewis, Thomas W. Mayhew, and James A. Weston.
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52nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
52nd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, in April, 1862. Its members were raised in the counties of Cabarrus, Randolph, gates, Chowan, Stokes, Richmond, Wilkes, Lincoln, Stanly, and Forsyth. The unit fought at Goldsboro, then moved to Virginia where it was brigaded under Generals Pettigrew, Kirkland, and MacRae. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg, had 2 killed and 25 wounded in the fight at Bristoe, and surrendered with only 6 officers and 60 men. Its commanders were Colonels James K. Marshall and Marcus A. Parks, Lieutenant Colonels Eric Erson and Benjamin F. Little, and Major John Q. Richardson.
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