1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment

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.

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)