37th Infantry Regiment, organized by Colonel C. C. Lee, was assembled at High Point, North
Carolina, in November 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Buncombe, Watauga,
Mecklenburg, Wake, Ashe, Alexander, and Gaston. The unit fought at New Bern and then move
Virginia in the spring of 1862. It was assigned to General Branch's and Lane's Brigade. Army of
Northern Virginia. The 37th North Carolina engaged at Hanover Court House and
Mech^cSf^M, and participated in many campaigns of the army from the Seven Days Battles
to Cold Harbor. It continued the fight in the Petersburg trenches and around Appomattox. This
regiment reported 125 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 15 at Cedar Mountain. 81
at Secpnd.M.a.nassas, 93 at Fredericks burg, and 235 at Chancellpr^^^^ Of the 379 engaged at
Gettysburg, more than thirty percent were disabled. It surrendered 10 officers and 98 men at
Appomattox. The field officers were Colonels William M. Barbour and Charles C. Lee; Lieutenan
Colonel John B. Ashcraft, Charles N. Hickerson, and William G. Morris; and Majors Jackson L. E
Owen N. Brown, John G. Bryan, Rufus M. Rankin, and William R. Rankin. Colonel Charles C. Lc
was killed at the Battle of Mechanicsville. Virginia.