6th North Carolina Regiment

History

• March 26, 1776, North Carolina began raising troops for service in the Continental Army, including troops in the Wilmington and Hillsborough military districts of North Carolina that would become the 6th North Carolina Regiment
• April 15, 1776, 6th North Carolina Regiment authorized by the Contental Congress and placed under the Southern Department of the Continental Army under Major General Charles Lee
• February 5, 1777, placed under the Northern Department of the Continental Army under Major General Philip Schuyler
• July 8, 1777, assigned to the North Carolina Brigade of the Northern Department
• May 29, 1778, 6th regiment folded into the 1st North Carolina Regiment by the Continental Congress due to low numbers of soldiers
• February 1779, furloughed soldiers recalled to resurrect the 5th North Carolina Regiment, as well as the 6th North Carolina Regiment; became part of the Southern Department under Major General Benjamin Lincoln
• Late 1779, 6th North Carolina Regiment is dissolved when the nine month service of soldiers expired, officers went on to serve in North Carolina militia units

Officers

• Col. John Alexander Lillington
• Lt. Col. William Taylor
• Colonel Gideon Lamb
• Lt. Col. Archibald Lytle
• Maj. John Baptiste Ashe

• Andrew Armstrong
• John Baptist Ashe, also Major
• Francis Child
• Arthur Council
• Thomas Donoho
• George Dougherty
• William Glover
• John James
• Archibald Lytle
• Griffith John McRee
• George Mitchell
• Benjamin Pike
• Jesse Saunders
• Philip Taylor
• Thomas White
• Daniel Williams