Company A, 49th Regiment of NC Troops

This unit was raised and enlisted of troops from McDowell and Rutherford Counties. The company functioned as part of the regiment, formed in McDowell County in March 1862, for the entirety of the war. General Robert Ransom served as the Commander of the 49th. Its exploits are reported as part of the regimental history. More detailed information on each of these soldiers can be found inNorth Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster, Volume X, Infantry, compiled by Weymouth T Jordan, Jrwith Unit Histories byLouis H Manarin. All genealogists owe a debt of gratitude to these gentlemen for their wonderful tribute to our ancestors.

These soldiers resided in Rutherford County.

OFFICERS

WHISNANT, Eli, 4th Sergeant

BLANTON, Joseph R, 5th Sergeant

PRIVATES

BEATTY, John, killed 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg

BOWERS, Anderson

CROW, James L

CROW, John, died 17 May 1863 at Wilmington

GRAYSON, Alfred M, died 6 June 1862 at Goldsboro

GRAYSON, John S

GUFFEY, E P

MANORS,Craton J

MANORS, James B, died 25 September 1862 at Woodstock

MCCURRY, R J

MCKINNEY, Henry Jr

MELTON, E R, died 21 September 1863 in NC of wounds received at Sharpsburg

MELTON, Samuel, wounded at Sharpsburg

QUEEN, William

SMART, P W

TOWERY, John

WALKER, Alfred

WALKER, Jeremiah

WALKER, J L

WALKER, John, wounded at Sharpsburg. Buried at Polkville Methodist Church, Polkville, in Cleveland County NC

WALKER, J W

WHISNANT, Elkanah, wounded at Sharpsburg

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