Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieutenant-Colonel Rankin” in chapter 15 of D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina:

...of North Carolina. The following North Carolina troops were part of that organization: Hoke's old brigade under Col. W. G. Lewis, made up of these regiments—Sixth, Colonel Webb; Twenty-first, Lieutenant-Colonel Rankin ; Fifty-fourth, Colonel Murchison; Fifty-seventh, Colonel Godwin; First North Carolina battalion, Colonel Wharton; Clingman's brigade, composed of these regiments—Eighth, Colonel Whitson; Thirty...
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