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The 5th North Carolina Regiment was assigned on March 26, 1776, to the Continental Army in the Southern Department. It was organized in the spring of 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina, as eight companies of volunteers from the districts of New Bern, Edenton and Hillsborough District of North Carolina. On February 5, 1777, the regiment was ...
History. The 6th North Carolina Regiment existed as a Continental Army unit from North Carolina from 1776 to 1779. Key events in its history include: [1] March 26, 1776, North Carolina began raising troops for service in the Continental Army, including troops in the Wilmington and Hillsborough military districts of North Carolina that would ...
John Butler (c.1728 – 1786) was a military officer in the Hillsborough District Brigade of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1784, and served as its commanding general between 1779 and the end of the conflict. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons for several terms simultaneously ...
Salisbury District Brigade. The Salisbury District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4, 1776, and disbanded at the end of the war.
The Hillsborough District Brigade was a brigade of the North Carolina militia which served as a centralised command over the regiments close to the city of Hillsborough. In 1766, the Province of North Carolina House of Burgess, at the direction of Province of North Carolina Governor William Tryon, divided the state into six judicial districts. The districts did not do away with the county ...
MG William Smallwood, 2nd North Carolina Militia commander [note 2] BG Allen Jones, Halifax District Brigade commander. Col William Richardson Davie, Independent Corps of Light Horse commander. Col Robert Howe, Brunswick County Regiment commander. Col James Kenan, Duplin County Regiment commander. Col John Sevier, 3rd commander of the ...
The Caswell County Regiment was a regiment in the North Carolina militia, under the authority of the Hillsborough District Brigade. The regiment recruited out of Caswell County, of which it shares its name. The Caswell County Regiment was formed out of the North Orange County Regiment following the 1777 division of Orange County; it changed its name to Caswell alongside its county. Staff ...
