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Contributed by: Diane Siniard Name: Riley Duff Enlistment Date: 19 October 1863 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Confederacy State Served: North Carolina Unit Numbers: 98 98 171 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 19 October 1863 Enlisted in Company H, 1st Infantry LDT Regiment North Carolina on 19 October 1863. Transferred Company H, 1st Infantry LDT Regiment North Carolina on 18 January 1864 Transferred in Company H, 67th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 18 January 1864. 67th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry 67th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in January, 1864, near Kinston, North Carolina. The unit contained one cavalry and nine infantry companies, and totalled about 625 officers and men. Its members were from Craven, Wilson, Jones, Duplin, Pitt, and Wayne counties. Attached to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, it skirmished around New Bern and Kinston, then disbanded near Stantonsburg on April 28, 1865. Colonel John N. Whitford, Lieutenant Colonel Rufus W. Wharton, and Major Edward Whitford were in command. |