13TH REGIMENT
NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
COMPANY B
MEN FROM YORK COUNTY
Many York District
volunteers during the Civil War joined military units that were formed outside
of their home district. The Ranalsburg Riflemen of Mecklenburg County NC
contained a number of York District soldiers. Ranalsburg (also Randalsburg
and other variant spellings) was a village, since vanished, that was located
in lower Steele Creek communtiy, at, or near, where Highway 49 is crossed
by Highway 160 not far above the South Carolina line. The 13th Regiment
was formed on 4/3/1861, nine days before the firing on Fort Sumter, &
arrived in Raleigh, NC on 4/30/1861. About half of the officers were probably
from the York District.
Roster of York County Men in Company B:
Erwin, Albert
A., Captain, enlisted
4/3/1861, age 33, wounded 5/5/1862 in the right arm at
Williamsburg
VA, resigned
2/27/1863 due to wounds
Erwin, Arthur R.,
Private
Robinson, William
W., Captain, enlisted
4/3/1861, age 25, wounded at
Sharpsburg
MD &
Spotsylvania Court House
VA, promoted
to Captain 2/27/1863
Alexander, Silas
W., 1st Lieutenant,
enlisted 7/17/1861, age 21, resigned 11/9/1862 due to ill health
Erwin, John
Randolph, 1st Lieutenant,
born 8/1/1838, enlisted 4/3/1861, transferred to the 5th NC Infantry Co.
F May 1862 as a Captain
Hart, William Speigh
McLean, 1st Lieutenant,
enlisted 4/3/1861, age 25, DOD 6/22/1862
McLean, Dr. John
D., (Yorkville), 1st
Lieutenant, enlisted 4/3/1861, surrendered at
Appomattox
4/9/1865
Nivens, Joseph
G., Private enlisted
5/26/1861, age 28, wounded at
Malvern
Hill VA 7/1/1862,
transferred to 6th SC Infantry 2nd Co. B 2/12/1863
Pressly, Dr. William
A., 2nd Lieutenant,
enlisted 4/3/1861, age 48, discharged 4/26/1862
Smith,
Edward, 2nd Lieutenant,
enlisted 4/3/1861, age 22, captured at
Gettysburg
PA 7/1863,
POW at
Ft. McHenry
MD,
Ft.
Delaward DE,
Johnson's Island
OH, &
Pt.
Lookout MD.
Released from Prison March 1865 & recaptured 3/25/1865, POW at Camp Chase
OH, paroled 4/13/1865.
Thompson,
Joseph, 1st Lieutenant,
enlisted 5/20/1862 age 27 at Williamsburg VA
Walker, Harry
J., 3rd Lieutenant,
enlisted 5/20/1861, wounded & captured Hagerstown MD 7/13/1863 &
had his left leg amputated, POW at
Johnsons Island
OH &
Pt.
Lookout MD.
Paroled at Pt. Lookout MD.
Warren, Robert
S., 2nd Lieutenant,
enlisted 4/3/1861, discharged 4/26/1862
Bailes, George
S., Private, born
York Dist., enlisted 4/3/1861, farmer,died 7/17/1862 of typhoid fever at
Lynchburg VA
Choate, A. Davidson,
Private, Resident
SC, enlisted 8/13/1862, age 27, KIA
Gaines
Mill, VA
6/27/1862
Choate, Robert W.,
Corporal, Born York
Dist. SC, enlisted 4/3/1861, age 38, discharged 7/16/1862 for being over
age
Choate, William F.,
Private, Residence
York Dist. SC,enlisted 8/13/1861, age 36, wounded in the chin at
Chancellorsville
VA, 5/1863,
also served
17th
Infantry, Co.
E, SCV.
Erwin, James C.,
Private, enlisted
4/3/1861, age 18, born York Dist. SC, farmer, died 10/24/1862 at home
Erwin, James M.,
Private, born York
Dist. SC, enlisted 6/12/1861, age 49, wounded at
Williamsburg
VA 5/5/1862,
discharged 10/13/1862 for being over age
Glover, Thomas
M., Private, born
York Dist., enlisted at age 17, 3/13/1861, died at Richmond VA 7/7/1862 of
pneumonia at the Hospital in Richmond VA
Hotchkiss, Seth
A., Private, born
York Dist., farmer, 18 when enlisted 4/3/1861, transferred to CS Navy aboard
the
CSS
Merrimac
2/15/1862
Johnston, Henry
F., Private, born
SC, enlisted Mecklenburg age 17 on 4/3/1861, transferred to
CSS
Merrimac on
2/15/1862
Kimbrell, James
L., Private, born
York Dist, farmer, enlisted age 20 on 4/3/1861, wounded
South Mountain
MD, killed
at
Gettysburg
7/1/1863
Swann, Robert
L., Private, born
York Dist., farmer, age 24 when enlisted 4/30/1861, wounded & captured
at
Williamsburg
VA, 5/6/1862,
POW at
Old Capital Prison Washington
DC, exchanged
8/5/1862, wounded at
Chancellorsville,
VA 5/3/1863,
died 5/4/1863.
Whyte,
William, Sgt., resided
in SC, enlisted age 19, 8/13/1861 as a Pvt., advanced to Sgt. wounded in
the leg
at Wilderness
VA 5/5/1864.
Paroled at Farmville VA 4/1865
Wilson, James
F., Private, born
York Dist.SC, farmer, enlisted age 18, 4/3/1861, killed at
Williamsburg
VA 5/5/1861
Youngblood, Samuel
C., Private, born
York Dist., farmer, age 30 enlisted Mecklenburg Co. 4/3/1861, died at home
Mecklenburg Co. about
11/12/1862
May 28, 1861, "H.D.S." of Clay Hill, York District, wrote
to the Yorkville Enquirer, "It is generally known that Capt. Erwin of the
Ranelsburg Company was recently shot in Raleigh by one of his men. I will
remark that I saw the Capt. on last Sunday at Big Steel Creek Church, Mecklenburg
County NC. He has recovered from his wound and walks without limping."
Courtsey of Louise Pettus, York County Genealogical &
Historical Society,
P.O. Box 3061CRS, Rock Hill SC 29732
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