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    • Source: Wilkes County Regiment

      • The Wilkes County Regiment was authorized on December 9, 1777 by the Province of North Carolina Congress at the same time that Wilkes County, North Carolina was created from Surry County, North Carolina and Washington District, North Carolina. The regiment was subordinate to the Salisbury District Brigade of militia. It was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British and Cherokee during the American Revolution in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia between 1779 and 1782. It was active until the end of the war.


      Officers


      The colonels and commanders of the regiment were:

      Col. Benjamin Cleveland (commander, 1777-1782)
      Col. Elijah Isaacs (2nd colonel, 1779-1783)
      Col. Benjamin Herndon (2nd colonel, 1781-1783)
      Known Lieutenant Colonels and Majors:

      Lt. Col. Hardgrove
      Lt. Col. John Herndon
      Lt. Col. William Nash
      Lt. Col. William Shepherd
      1st Maj. John Brevard
      2nd Maj. William Lewis
      Maj. Josiah Branham
      Maj. Jesse Hardin Franklin (later Governor of North Carolina, 1820-1821)
      Maj. Nathaniel Gordon
      Maj. Joseph Hardin Sr.
      Maj. Francis Hardgrave
      Maj. Benjamin Herndon
      Maj. Joseph Herndon
      Maj. Elijah Isaacs
      Maj. William Lenoir
      Maj. Joseph Lewis
      Maj. James Smith
      Maj. James Stevenson
      The regiment had 78 known companies headed by captains. Companies consisted of lieutenants, ensigns, sergeants, corporals, privates, drummers and fifers. Notables captains and other troops included:

      Capt Richard Allen (1778-1781, may have been Colonel of the regiment after the war
      Private John Hammond under Captain Larkin Cleveland (the 2nd to last Revolutionary War Patriot to die, 1760-1868)
      Captain and Major William Lenoir later went on to become a major general in the North Carolina militia after the war.


      See also


      List of American Revolutionary War battles
      Salisbury District Brigade
      Southern Campaigns: Pension Transactions for a description of the transcription effort by Will Graves
      Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War


      References




      Bibliography


      Arthur, John Preston (1914). Western North Carolina; a history (1730-1913). National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. Edward Buncombe Chapter, Asheville, North Carolina. Retrieved Jan 29, 2019.
      Hunter, C.L. (1877). Sketches of western North Carolina, historical and biographical : illustrating principally the Revolutionary period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln, and adjoining counties, accompanied with miscellaneous information, much of it never before published. Raleigh: Raleigh News Steam Job Print. p. 166-183.

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