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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
53rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organization in April, 1862, at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina. It totalled about 900 effectives in November, 1864. It mustered less than half that number in March, 1865. It surrendered a force of nearly 250 on April 26.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref> | 53rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organization in April, 1862, at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina. It totalled about 900 effectives in November, 1864. It mustered less than half that number in March, 1865. It surrendered at Appomatox Court House, Virginia,a force of nearly 250 on April 26, 1865.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref><ref>Sifakis, Stewart. ''Compendium of The Confederate Armies: North Carolina.'' Facts On file New York - Oxford 1992.{{FHL|476605|item|disp=FHL book 975 M2ss}}</ref> | ||
=== Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin === | === Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin === | ||