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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ny was assigned to the Twenty-ninth regiment of infantry, and he was unanimously elected as its first colonel. The command left Camp Vance, in Buncombe county, October 28, 1861 , for Raleigh, and in the latter part of November was sent to the field in east Tennessee. There the regiment served mainly in garrison duty on the railroad until February, 1862, when it was concentrated at Cumberland gap, in the defense of which it took part until the evacuation in June. Under the command of General Stevenson, Colonel Vance and his regiment took part in the assault and defeat of the enemy at Tazewell in August, after which Colonel Vance, in command of his own and other regiments, held a position at Baptist gap until the Federals retreated, when the army under Kirby Smith advanced into Kentucky as far as Frankfort, thence returning through Cumberland gap in October, marching about 500 miles in forty days. At the battle of Murfreesboro, December 31st, after the death of the brigade commander