The Sixth North Carolina Regiment was organized on the 16th of May 1861, at Company Shops now commonly known as Burlington, North Carolina. Charles F. Fisher would assume command as Colonel of the Regiment.
The Sixth would earn the name "The Bloody Sixth" through tough marches and exhausting battles during the War. The Sixth Regiment was prominent in the campaigns of the army from Seven Pines to Mine Run, then was active in the battles of Plymouth and Cold Harbor. It fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and later in the Appomattox operations. The regiment reported 23 killed and 50 wounded at First Manassas, and in April 1862, contained 715 effectives. It lost 115 during the Seven Days' Battles, 147 at Second Manassas and Ox Hill, 125 in the Maryland Campaign, and 25 at Fredericksburg. Of the 509 engaged at Gettysburg, thirty-six percent were disabled. At the Rappahannock River in November 1863, it lost 5 killed, 15 wounded, and 317 missing, and there were 6 killed and 29 wounded at Plymouth. It surrendered with 6 officers and 175 men of which 72 were armed.
Organization and companies
Colonels: Charles Frederick Fisher (KIA, July 21, 1861) William Dorsey Pender (1861-1862) Isaac Erwin Avery (1862-KIA July 3,1863) Robert Fulton Webb (1863 - POW November 1863) Following them are the companies: Company A - Caswell & Chatham County "Jackson Rangers", Capt. Robert M. McKinney Company B - Orange County "Flat River Guards", Capt. Robert F. Webb Company C - Orange County, "Orange Greys", Capt. William Johnson Freeland Company D - Burke, Catawba & McDowell County, Capt. Samuel McDowell Tate Company E - Burke, McDowell, Mitchell & Yancey County, Capt. Isaac Erwin Avery Company F - Alamance County "Hawfield River Boys", Capt. James W. Wilson Company G - Rowan & Mecklenburg County, Capt. James A. Craige Company H - Caswell County "Caswell Boys", Capt. Alfred A. Mitchell Company I - Wake & Chatham County "North Carolina Grays", Capt. Richard W. York Company K - Alamance County "Flat Bottom Boys", Capt. James W. Lea
Battles
1861-
Battle of Manassas (Colonel Fisher Killed)
1862- Peninsula Campaign (March -July):
Yorktown Eltham's Landing Barhamsville Seven Pines Gains Mill Savage's Station White Oak Swamp Malvern Hill Harrisons Landing
Cont. (July -December)
Throughfare Gap Second Manassas Ox Hill Boonesboro (1862) Sharpsburg Fredericksburg
1863-
2nd Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville 2nd Winchester Gettysburg Hagerstown Bristoe Station Mine Run 2nd Rappahannock Station
1864-
Batchelder's Creek (New Bern) Plymouth/Fort Gray/Fort Wessells/ Fort Williams Bathsheda Church Lynchburg Monocacey Fort Stevens Rutherford's Farm 2nd Kernstown 3rd Winchester Fisher's Hill Cedar Creek
1865-
Burgess' Mill Fort Steadman Sayler's Creek
See also List of North Carolina Confederate Civil War units
References Register of North Carolina Troops, 1861, by John Spelman page 13. "The respective command" of the 6th (as stated on the title of the book), page 786–808 in the History of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War-'65-Volume 1 edited by Walter Clark and published by the state.
External links https://civilwarintheeast.com/confederate-regiments/north-carolina/6th-north-carolina-infantry-regiment/ https://www.carolana.com/NC/Civil_War/6th_nc_volunteers_regiment.html https://www.carolana.com/NC/Civil_War/Register_of_North_Carolina_Troops_1861.pdf https://www.carolana.com/NC/Civil_War/Histories_of_the_Several_Regiments_and_Battalions_from_NC_in_the_Great_War_Volume_I_Walter_Clark_1901.pdf