Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Newbern” in chapter 8, page 99 of William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington:
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On December 24, 1862, the President ordered that the troops in the Department of North Carolina should be organized into a corps and designated as the Eighteenth.
These troops were stationed at Newbern , Plymouth, Beaufort, and vicinity.
They included Peck's Division,
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