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Unit History
1862
New Bern March 14 Hanover Court
House May 27 Seven Days
Battles June 25
-July1 Malvern
Cliff June 30 Malvern
Hill July 1
1863
Washington,
N.C. Feb.&
March Gettysburg July 1 -
3 Bristoe
Station Oct.14 Mine Run
Campaign Nov. &
Dec.
The
Wilderness June 5 &
6 Spotsylvania Ct.
House June 8 -
21 North
Anna May 22 -
26 Cold
Harbor June 1,2, &
3 Petersburg
Siege June -
Dec.
Petersburg
Siege Jan. -
March Appomattox Ct.
House April 9
Company C, Tenth North Carolina State Troops, was organized at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 16, 1861, with the following commissioned officers: Thomas H. Brem, Captain; S. J. Lowry and W. P. Lewis, First Lieutenants; Joseph Graham and A. B. Williams, Second Lieutenants. Captain Brem was one of the most patriotic men of the State. At the beginning of the organization of the battery, the Confederate Government was short of funds for equipping troops, but this did not deter Captain Brem in the least. He advanced the money to fully equip the battery, besides uniforming and feeding the men and purchasing eighty head of horses. This outlay was afterwards refunded to him, but in a depreciated currency. The battery at its organization numbered about one hundred and ten men rank and file. The men were enlisted in the neighborhood of Charlotte and the upper portion of South Carolina. The material was excellent and the devotion of the men to the cause was fully sustained by their four years of hard service.
The splendid record of this battery was made on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Wherever the Army of Northern Virginia marched and fought, this battery was found sharing its privations, partaking of and aiding in its ever glorious achievements, and adding to the never-fading lustre won on all those memorable fields of glory by the soldiers of North Carolina. From their first engagement at New Bern to the final surrender of Lee at Appomattox, the guns of this battery were heard, and when the last of them was surrendered, officers and men could point with pride to a record second to none made by the artillerists of the Confederacy.
Brief History:
1st North Carolina Artillery, 10th North Carolina Regiment State Troops, Company C
Unit Type: Light Artillery
Regiment Officers:
First Commander: Capt. Thomas H. Brem
Lieutenants: Joseph Graham, Arthur B. William's, S.J. Lowry, & W.P. Lewis
Date Organized: 5/16/1861 at Charlotte, N.C.
Mustered In: 8/30/1861 at Raleigh, N.C.
Came From: Mecklenburg County and Upper South Carolina
Known As: Affectionately known as The Charlotte Artillery, but over the duration of the war was known at different times as Brem's Battery, Graham's Battery, or William's Battery.
Assignment: Army of Northern Virginia
Period in
Time Until Mid
1862 Until Fall
1862 Until Mid
1863 Until the
End Corps Gen. Theophilus
Holmes Gen. D. H.
Hill Gen. D. H.
Hill Gen. Ambrose P.
Hill Division Gen. William D.
Pender Brigade/Battalion Gen. Lawrence O'B.
Branch Gen. Robert
Ransom Gen, Junius
Daniel Major William T.
Poague Commanding
Officer Cpt. Thomas H. Brem (Lincoln
County) Cpt. Joseph Graham (Craven
County) Cpt. Joseph Graham (Craven
County) Cpt. Arthur B. Williams
(Wayne County)
Armament: Armed with six guns from August 30, 1861 to March 14,1862. Armed with four 12-lb. Howitzers from June 26, 1862 to July 1, 1862. Armed with one 12-lb. Howitzer, three 3-inch Rifles, and two 6-lb. Smoothbores in February 1863. Armed with two 12-lb. Howitzers and two 12-lb. Napoleons July 1-3,1863. Armed with two 3-inch Rifles and one 10-lb. Parrott on April 9, 1864. Armed with two 3-inch Rifles, one 10-lb. Parrott, and one Whitworth rifle during May through September 1864. Armed with one 3-inch Rifle and two 12-lb. Napoleons on December 28,1864.