Email From Joy EUZELIA@aol.com to HUNSUCKER-L@rootsweb.com
Email Dated 1/3/2000

Adrianne,

I have from the book *North Carolina Troops: 1861-1865* the following
information.

Company I, 37th Regiment

This company, known as the "Mecklenburg Rifles," was raised in Mecklenburg
County and was enlisted at Charlotte on October 22, 1861.  It was mustered
into state service on November 20, 1861, and was assigned to the 37 Regiment
N.C. Troops as Company I.  The company functioned thereafter as part of the
37th Regiment, and its history for the remainder of the war is reported as
part of the regimental history.

The information contained in the following roster was compiled principally
from a company muster-in roll dated November 20, 1861, and from company
muster rolls dated January-April, 1852; June 30, 1862-February 28, 1863; and
July, 1863-February, 1865.  No company muster rolls were found for November
20-December 31, 1862; May 1-June 29, 1862; March-June, 1863; and March-April,
1865.  Valuable information was obtained from primary sources such as the
North Carolina adjutant general's Roll of Honor, discharge certificates,
medical records, prisoner of war records, pension applications, and Civil War
histories, cemetery records, and records for the United Daughter of the
Confederacy also provided useful information.

Captains
John K. Harrison
Moses N. Hart
John Irvin Elms
William M. Stitt

Hunsucker, James A., Private

Previously served as Private in Company D, 42nd Regiment, N.C. Troops. 
Enlisted in this company at Liberty Mills, Virginia, January 28, 1864, for
the war.  Wounded at or near Gravel Hill, Virginia, July 28, 1864.  Returned
to duty in November-December, 1864.  Captured near Petersburg, Virginia,
April 2, 1865.  Confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, until released on June
28, 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance.

Hunsucker, John W., Private

Born in Mississippi and resided in Mecklenburg County where he was by
occupation a farmer prior to enlisting in Mecklenburg County at age 17,
October 22, 1861.  Reported absent without leave in February, 1862.  Returned
to duty on an unspecified date.  Wounded at Sharpsburg, Maryland on or about
September 17, 1862, "but was not in the battle."  Reported absent without
leave in November-December, 1862.  Returned to duty in March-August, 1863. 
Deserted to the enemy on or about March 3, 1865.  Sent to Washington, D.C.,
where he arrived on March 7, 1865.  Released on an unspecified date after
taking the Oath of Allegiance.

Hunsucker, William J., Private

Born in Mississippi and resided in Mecklenburg County where he was by
occupation a farmer prior to enlisting in Mecklenburg County at age 20,
October 22, 1861.  Wounded at Shepherdstown, (West) Virginia, September 20,
1862.  Returned to duty in January-February, 1863.  Wounded in the thigh at
Chancellorsville, Virginia, on or about May 3, 1863.  Returned to duty in
September-October, 1863.  Present or accounted for through February, 1865. 
Paroled at Lynchburg, Virginia, April 13-15, 1865.

Joy


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