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Frederick Albert Tobey: 58th North Carolina
Born in Livingston County, New York, 6 September 1842, Tobey came south with his family in 1850 and settled in Avery County – near present-day Ingalls.
He enlisted at age 19 in the “Mitchell Rangers” on 31 December 1861, a unit known as Captain John Boynton Palmer’s Company, North Carolina Volunteers. The Mitchell Rangers consisted of men from Mitchell, Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, McDowell and Ashe counties.
The Company A of which Tobey was part was a mixed unit of cavalry and infantry known as “Palmer’s Legion,” but divided into respective infantry-cavalry commands in May 1862. Palmer was a wealthy farmer in Mitchell County at the outbreak of war, and native of Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York. Palmer is pictured below.
Tobey mustered in as Sergeant, was elected second lieutenant on 10 June 1862, and promoted to captain on 11 July, 1863. In July of 1862, Company A, still under Palmer’s command, was mustered into the 58th North Carolina Regiment. The 58th North Carolina participated in the many campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Atlanta under General’s Johnston and Hood, later in action along the Edisto River to threaten Sherman in South Carolina, and then to Bentonville in General Joseph E. Johnston’s army.
At Bentonville, it was noted that the 58th North Carolina came “within 200 yards of the enemy’s first line of works, which were at once charged and carried. The command did not halt there, but moved forward in double-quick, pursuing the enemy, flying in disorder and confusion to their second line of works, which was also charged and carried, capturing one piece of artillery near the second line.”
Sources:
Genealogy online
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865
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