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Fighting Twenty Sixth Regiment of North Carolina
The article traces the famed Confederate Fighting Twenty Sixth from its 1861 mobilization near Raleigh under Major Burgwyn, with Zebulon B. Vance as colonel, through its battles including Roanoke Island and New Bern, noting daring feats, internal stories of recruits such as Melinda Blalock, its reorganization, and famed associations within Pettigrew's brigade as Gettysburg loomed.
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North Carolina
Piedmont
Raleigh
Harry King Burgwyn
Virginia Military Institute
Lincoln
Ellis
United States Service
Zebulon B. Vance
Buncombe County
Burgwyn
Leonidas I. Polk
Farmers Alliance
Fort Macon
Beaufort
N. C
Roanoke Island
Burnside
Newbern
Vance
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Kinston
William A. Graham
Ing
L. M. Blalock
Samuel Blalock
Woods
Samuel
Blalocks
Melinda
Kirk
Tennessee
Caldwell County
Cotton-Tail
Pettigrew
Gettysburg
Edward R. Stanley
California
Twenty-Sixth