1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment

1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment
Active	August 12, 1861 – April, 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	North Carolina
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Regiment
Role	Cavalry
Part of	Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Organized at	Ridgeway, North Carolina
Engagements	American Civil War Peninsula Campaign Battle of Antietam Gettysburg Campaign Battle of Mine Run Overland Campaign Petersburg Campaign Appomattox Campaign
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Robert Ransom, Jr. Col. Lawrence S. Baker Col. James B. Gordon Col. Thomas Hart Ruffin Col. William H. Cheek

Confederate veteran Private Clark Robertson Starnes of Co. C, 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment in uniform with medals and Confederate flags. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

The 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, initially formed as 9th Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, was a cavalry regiment from North Carolina that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Raised in 1861 it served all over the Eastern Theater until it surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865.^[1]

Companies[]

• Company A - Jefferson, Ashe County
• Company B - Rich Square, Northampton County
• Company C (Mecklenburg Rangers) - Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
• Company D (Watauga Rangers) - Boone, Watauga County
• Company E - Warrenton, Warren County
• Company F (Cabarrus Rangers) - Concord, Cabarrus County
• Company G (Buncombe Rangers) - Asheville, Buncombe County
• Company H - Goldsboro, Wayne County
• Company I - Kenansville, Duplin County
• Company K (Nantahala Rangers) - Franklin, Macon County

Commanders[]

• Col. Robert Ransom, Jr. (promoted to brigadier general)
• Col. Lawrence S. Baker (promoted to brigadier general)
• Col. James B. Gordon (promoted to brigadier general)
• Col. Thomas Hart Ruffin (mortally wounded, died October 17, 1863)
• Col. William H. Cheek

See also[]

• List of North Carolina Confederate Civil War units

References[]

Further reading[]

• Ninth Regiment (First Cavalry) in Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-'65, Vol. I (1905)