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Alexander Hamilton McNeill Papers: 1855-1865

Colonel Alexander Hamilton McNeill was Clerk of Court for 32 years, Confederate enlistment officer during the Civil War and tax assessor for Moore County, North Carolina. He was born in Moore County 22 Nov 1831, the son of John McNeill (1806-1850) and Fanny Muse (1814-1900). In 1852 he married Margaret Jane Currie (1833-1888) of Moore County. Col. A. H. McNeill died in Moore County 05 Nov 1906 and was buried in the Carthage Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

His collection of papers acquired during his tenure as Moore County servant is preserved in the North Carolina Archives in Raleigh, NC. Among those papers was found the following roster of the original members of Company H of North Carolina’s 26th Infantry Regiment. “The Moore Independents,” as they were called, was the first volunteer company from Moore County. They left for service in the Confederate States Army 03 June 1861.

Col. McNeill’s roster appears to have been written early in the spring of 1862, prior to the Battle of New Bern on the 14th of March, 1862. 
Special Thanks -- The following rosters were located in the A. H. McNeill Papers in N.C. State Archives, Raleigh, NC by Martha Richardson Blake of Mooore County, NC
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ALPHABETIZED TRANSCRIPT OF THE ORIGINAL ROSTER OF THE FIRST 120 ALL VOLUNTEER MEMBERS OF COMPANY H, 26TH REGIMENT N.C.S.T.
CARTHAGE, NC
03 JUNE 1861

(ORIGINALS LOCATED IN THE  A. H. McNEILL COLLECTION, N.C. ARCHIVES, RALEIGH, NC)

BEAN, JOHN M.

BLUE, DUNCAN CALVIN

BLUE, JOHN ARCHIBALD BAXTER

BLUE, MALCOLM P.

BRADY, BRADLEY

BREWER, JOSEPH

BREWER, MALCOLM C.

BREWER, STEPHEN W.

BRITT, JONATHAN A.

BROWN, NEIL ARCHIBALD

BUCHANAN, JAMES ANDREW JACKSON 

CADDELL, ARTEMUS S.

CADDELL, JAMES N.

CADDELL, JOHN L.

CAGLE, ENOCH SPINKS

CAMPBELL, PETER M.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM ROBERT

COOK, WILLIAM R.

COX, GREEN B.

COX, HUGH B.

COX, THOMAS F.

CURRIE, LAUGHLIN A.

CURRIE, LAUGHLIN WELLINGTON

CURRIE, NEIL ALEXANDER

DAVIS, DEVOTION

DAVIS, FRANCIS

DAVIS, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

DEATON, NOAH

DENSON, WILLIAM T.

DOWD, CLEMENT

DOWD, WILLIAM JAMES D.

DUNLAP, ALEXANDER M.

DUNLAP, DANIEL M.

EVERETT, TROY

FERGUSON, DANIEL CAMPBELL

FRY, ABSOLOM B.

FRY, GEORGE THOMAS

FRY, NATHAN L.

GILLIAM, JAMES DANIEL

GOLDSTON, ROBERT W.

GORDON, JAMES M.

GRAHAM, DAVID ARCHIBALD

GRAHAM, NEIL CAMERON

GRAHAM, WILLIAM HENDERSON

HARRISON, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

HOGAN, ZACHEUS

HOLLINGSWORTH, GILLIAM BENJAMIN

JACKSON, JOHN A.

JOHNSON, JOHN A.

JOHNSON, THOMAS

JONES, CHARLES E.

KEITH, HUGH JR.

KEITH, JOHN R.

KELLY, DUNCAN

KELLY, JOHN B.

KIMBRELL, ANDREW J.

LAWHON, JOEL JOSEPH

MALONE, AARON

MALONE, DANIEL

MALONE, WILLIAM

MANESS, JONAS SEDBERRY

MANESS, THOMAS SWAIN

MARTIN, JOHN B.

MARTIN, WILLIAM PINCKNEY II

MCAULEY, AULEY M.

MCCASKILL, DANIEL D.

MCDONALD, DANIEL

MCDONALD, NEIL

MCDONALD, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

MCGILVARY, JOHN HALE

MCINTOSH, FRANCIS MARION

MCINTOSH, NEIL

MCINTOSH, SAMUEL JACKSON

MCIVER, JAMES D.

MCKINNON, JOHN 

MCKINNON, MARTIN A.

MCKINNON, WILLIAM

MCLEAN, CHARLES C.

MCLEOD, DUNCAN MURCHISON

MCLEOD, MURDOCH

MCLEOD,JAMES A. N.

MCNEILL, JOHN M. K.

MCNEILL, MALCOLM D.

MCNEILL, WILLIAM J.

MEDLIN JOHN ANDREW

MOORE, BRYAN B.

MOORE, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER

NICHOLSON, JOHN

NUNNERY, WILLIAM K.

PARSONS, JOHN

RAY, HUGH M.

RAY, NEIL A.

ROBERTS, CHARLES CHALMERS

SCHAMERHORN, IRA

SEAWELL, JESSE PATTERSON

SHAW, DANIEL WEBSTER

SHAW, DUGALD C.

SHAW, THOMAS

SHAW, THOMAS BENTON

SHORT, SAMUEL P.

SMITH, NEIL TYSON

SMITH, NICHOLAS P.

SMITH, ORAN H

STREET, MURDO

STREET, RICHARD

TAYLOR, NAPOLEON B.

THOMPSON, NEIL

TYSON, JOHN D.

TYSON, LUCIAN PERSON

TYSOR, LEWIS BROCK

VUNCANNON, WILLIAM A.

WADSWORTH, ALEXANDER

WADSWORTH, PETER SINCLAIR

WALLACE, ALEXANDER

WALLACE, WILLIAM LANE

WARWICK, JOHN THOMAS

WHITLOCK, JOHN WILLIAM

WILCOX, GEORGE WILLIAM

WILCOX, ROBERT PALMER

WILLIAMSON, J.  KELLY
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Col. A. H. McNeill Carthage Presbyterian Church Cemetery Carthage, NC

Below photo taken at 2nd & last Moore County Civil War Veteran’s Reunion, held at The Opera House in Southern Pines, NC. In the background stands the Piney Woods Inn, 28 March 1907

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This photo hangs in the Historical Room of the Moore County Library in Carthage, NC.  It contains three surviving soldiers from Company H 26th NC Regiment.  First Row, Seated (L-R) -- 6th Person: CHARLES C. MCLEAN. 7th Person: WILLIAM C. MOORE.  Second Row, Seated (L-R) -- 1st Person: ELI P. SEAWELL --- (Identification by: The late Tony Parker)

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