Paulette..you might write bapace@Juno.com because her ancestor Abner Pace was in the Home Guard in Rowan or some N.C. unit.. The letter below is from her.Goodluck,Stella) ...............................................................I have heard that there was a plan for a final/last volume of Clarke's NC Regiments research. The Salisbury Home Guard, the 73rd Regiment (also known as the 4th Regiment). Don't know if that final volume been printed? >From several readings I have found on other lists,, it seems 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. Some say The Home Guard didn't have a very good reputation as they stole, destroyed, and terrified the families of deserters. There is 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. 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.   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 There is an introduction to Jr. & Sr. Reserve at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawm/NCMilOrg/ReserveIndex.htm