This page is dedicated to events that occurred on this day in the life of individual North Carolina soldiers during the Civil War.
The calendar begins on April 12, the day Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, beginning the war.
May 1, 1863
Sidney A. Crowder, 12th North Carolina Infantry
May 2, 1863
Major Franklin Hull, 18th North Carolina Infantry
May 3, 1863
William C. Brewer, 2nd North Carolina Infantry
May 4, 1863
George Washington Palmer, 54th North Carolina Infantry
May 5, 1862
Whitmel Clark, 5th North Carolina Infantry
May 6, 1864
John A. Carpenter, 16th North Carolina Infantry
May 7, 1862
Onslow Meigs Reagan, 24th North Carolina Infantry
May 8, 1865
Robert P. Madison, 35th North Carolina Infantry
May 9, 1865
Aaron Sercy, 10th Battalion North Carolina Heavy Artillery
May 10, 1865
John Wesley Holder, 46th North Carolina Infantry
May 11, 1863
John A. Jackson, 26th North Carolina Infantry
May 12, 1863
Thomas Price Duckworth, 30th North Carolina Infantry
May 13, 1863
Joseph Hubbard Saunders, 33rd North Carolina Infantry
May 14, 1863
Berry Robby Kinney, 14th North Carolina Infantry
May 15, 1864
James M. Pipkin, 1st North Carolina Artillery
May 16, 1862
John W. Looper, 7th North Carolina Infantry
May 17, 1862
Benjamin Franklin Albritton, 3rd North Carolina Infantry
May 18, 1864
George D. Weatherly, 2nd North Carolina Cavalry
May 19, 1863
Thornton Sexton, 37th North Carolina Infantry
May 20, 1861
Thomas Fentress Toon, 20th North Carolina Infantry
May 21, 1862
John F. Crump, 22nd North Carolina Infantry
May 22, 1863
James Jefferson Kelly, 56th North Carolina Infantry
May 23, 1862
Atlas Hoffner, 49th North Carolina Infantry
May 24, 1864
Jeremiah Dodson, 14th North Carolina Infantry
May 25, 1862
Jacob C. Hedgecock, 21st North Carolina Infantry
May 26, 1863
William Lipscomb, 27th North Carolina Infantry
May 27, 1862
Hugh Puckett, 28th North Carolina Infantry
May 28, 1862
Jesse T. Vaughn, 17th North Carolina Infantry
May 31, 1862
Abner David Peace, 23rd North Carolina Infantry