Betty, it has been a while since I studied this, but the 73rd Regiment NC Troops (4th Regiment Reserves) were "Senior Reserves" and not "Home Guard." Home Guards and Reserves are two different things. It is possible, particularly in that late stage of the war, that someone who was a "Home Guard" could have been mustered into a Reserve Regiment. God Bless, james weaks On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Betty A Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have heard that there was a plan for a final/last volume of Clarke's NC > Regiments research. I am interested in the Salisbury Home Guard, the > 73rd Regiment (also known as the 4th Regiment). Has that final volume > been printed? > > >From several readings I have concluded that the Home Guard group mostly > did roundups of escaped slaves, deserters or war resisters in their area, > plus possibly engaging Gen. Stoneman in late April 1865. I don't think > they got much action except for deserters to the west. The Home Guard > didn't have a very good reputation as they stole, destroyed, and > terrified the families of deserters. I have a Guilford Gen. Journal > about the Home Guard in the area of Greensboro and I would bet the > Salisbury bunch did much the same thing. My Abner Pace was in the > Salisbury Home Guard. > > Here is what I have already found from Clarke's NC Regiments. The book > is now digitalized at: > Walter Clark--, Histories of the several regiments and battalions from > North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 > http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/authors.aspx?sort=C > > Summarized or quoted at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawm/NCMilOrg/73rdReg-JrReserve.htm<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enccatawm/NCMilOrg/73rdReg-JrReserve.htm> > > There is an introduction to Jr. & Sr. Reserve at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawm/NCMilOrg/ReserveIndex.htm<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enccatawm/NCMilOrg/ReserveIndex.htm> > > > Betty Pace > ____________________________________________________________ > Click to find information on your credit score and your credit report. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m2PcjWDHU7y4BMkkc9BNu5QMfXjM2JUYT8NvTVqcrDXbQkQ/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >