VERVIEW 43rd Infantry Regiment was assembled at Camp Mangum near Raleigh North Carolina in March 1862. Its members were from counties in Mecklenburg Wilson Halifax Edgecombe Warren and Anson. During the war the 43rd was assigned to General Daniel's Hoke's and Grimes' Brigade. It fought in the Seven Days' Battles and saw action at Goldsboro Gettysburg Plymouth Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. The regiment was then involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. It was organized with 1066 officers and men lost twenty-six percent of the 572 engaged at Gettysburg and had 4 killed and 13 wounded at Plymouth. On April 9 1865 it surrendered 9 officers and 164 men. The field officers were Colonel Thomas S. Kenan Lieutenant Colonel William G. Lewis and Major Walter J. Boggan.