North Carolina Monument

At this place on 9 April 1865, the North Carolina Brigade of Brigadier-General W. R. Cox of Grimes Division fired the last volley at Appomattox. Major-General Bryan Grimes of North Carolina planned the last battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia and commanded the infantry engaged in it, most of whom were North Carolinians. North Carolina troops paroled at Appomattox included brigades under Cox, Grimes, Johnston, Lewis, Cooke, MacRae, Lane, Scales, Ransom, Barringer, and Roberts, along with Major General Grimes and staff and the batteries of Cummings, Miller, Williams, Flanner, and Ramsay, for a total of 5,012 North Carolinians paroled. The state also identified its troops as first at Bethel, farthest to the front at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and last at Appomattox. For North Carolina, the 1860 white population was 629,942, the military population was 115,359, and from 1861 to 1865 it furnished 127,000 troops, with 14,522 killed in battle, 5,151 dying from wounds, and 20,502 dying from disease.

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