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70th North Carolina Infantry

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Company A

4th Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jordan KearneyDate added 4/30/2008

Company B

1st Lieutenant

Suttle, George W., 1st Lieutenant Company B, 70th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Regiment Junior Reserves) Enlisted as 1st Lieutenant in Rutherford County on May 9, 1864 and surrendered on April 26, 1865 at Bush Hill, NC. Paroled on May 2, 1865. Born: 1845 in Rutherford Co., NC Died: July 30, 1883 in Rutherford Co., NC Buried: Rutherfordton City Cemetery Married: Laura J. Mitchell Children: unknown Occupation: unknown Previuosly served in Company D, 16th NC Infantry and Company I, 34th NC Infantry.
Contributor Adrian C. SimsDate added 4/7/2007

Company B

Private

Watson, Andrew Baxter, Private Company B, 1st NC Junior Reserves (70th North Carolina Infantry) Born: September 20, 1842 in Rutherford Co., NC Died: May 23, 1938 in Burke Co., NC Buried: Bethel Church in Burke Co., NC Married: Mary Ann Frances Mode Children: 11 Occupation: unknown
Contributor Adrian C. SimsDate added 4/16/2007

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor David HooverHomepage www.facebook.com/dhvrDate added 3/14/2010

Company C

2nd Corporal

Trying to find full name and what happened to him. Confederate Army drafted him when he war 17 years old into the junior reserves. He was a 2nd Cpl in Company C 70th Regiment July 1864.
Contributor A W SteppDate added 4/4/2009

Company E

Rank unknown

He was conscripted into Co. E, 70th Regiment, which was a consolidation of Junior Reserve Unit. (Special Order No. 22, Conscript Office, Raleigh, NC, dated 30 September, 1864)
Contributor Dan L. WilsonDate added 3/3/2009

Company H

Rank unknown

http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/chat/cem441.htm Refer to this link Thanks
Contributor JohnDate added 5/17/2009

Company K

Private

My Great Great Grandfather enlisted July 12, 1864 into the 1 Reg't N.C. Junior Reserves at Garysburg, N.C. by Capt. Loole at the age of 17. Sick at Pettigrew General Hospital No. 13, Raleigh, N.C. from Sept. 4 1864 to Sept. 19, 1864 with Febris Remittens. Transferred to hospital Nov. 8, 1864. Absent sick on muster roll Jan. and Feb. 1865. Died 6-30-1898. Buried in Outland Cemetery, Gatesville, N.C.
Contributor Eric JoynerDate added 12/26/2011

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