Organized at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, under Colonel George B. Singletary, colonel of the 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Cotton (age 76) and Major Elisha Cromwell. Assigned to the Department of North Carolina.

Company A – “Granville Regulators” – Granville County – Captain Tazewell L. Hargrove
Company B – Edgecombe County – Captain Baker W. Mabry
Company C – Pitt County – Captain William L. Cherry
Company D – “Pitt Regulators” – Pitt County – Captain L.R. Anderson
Company E – “The Turtle Paws” – Chatham County – Captain Charles M. Stedman
Company F – “Trojan Regulators” – Montgomery County – Captain David D. DeBerry
Company G – Orange and Alamance Counties – Captain Robert Bingham
Company H – “Montgomery Guards” – Montgomery County – Captain William D. Moffit
Company I – “Eastern Tigers” – Pitt and Craven Counties – Captain Downing H. Smith
Company K – “Franklin Guides to Freedom” – Franklin County – Captain Rhett R.L. Lawrence

Battle of Seven Pines

Tranter’s Creek

Colonel George Singletary was killed.

The 44th North Carolina was detached to guard the railroad crossing at Hanover Junction and did not take part in the march to Pennsylvania or the Battle of Gettysburg.

Colonel Thomas C. Singletary was posted at the junction with two companies.
Lieutenant Colonel Tazewell L. Hargrove commanded four companies, each assigned to guard a bridge of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad or the Virginia Central Railroad across the South Anna and Little Rivers. Hargrove remained with Company A at the Central Railroad bridge over the South Anna.
Major Charles M. Stedman with four companies was posted north of the junction.

South Anna Bridge

Companies A & G defended the railroad bridge against an attack by Union cavalry, losing 7 men killed, 13 wounded, and 30 captured. It was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Hargrove, who was wounded and captured.

Bristoe Station

The regiment took part in an attack by the brigade on a Union position that was well supported by artillery. It lost 23 killed and 63 wounded. An unknown number were captured when they chose to not retreat back across the deadly open ground over which they had advanced. Lieutenant R.W. DuPre of Company H was killed.

Battle of the WIlderness

The regiment held a position on the right of the Orange Plank Road. Lieutenant R.W. Stedman heroically led a detail of 40 men to save 3 guns from capture. He succeeded in saving the guns but was badly wounded, and almost every man in the detail was hurt.

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Colonel Thomas C. Singletary and Major Stedman were wounded.

Cold Harbor

Globe Tavern

Siege of Petersburg

Reams’ Station

Battle of Five Forks

South Side Railroad (Sutherland’s Station)

Appomattox Court House

The 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment surrendered 8 officers and 74 enlisted men.