ORGANIZATION:  Organized with four companies of railroad guards at Goldsboro on May 19, 1863, per S.O.#56, Department of North Carolina. Know for a time as the 4th Infantry Battalion. Consolidated with the 8th Partisan Rangers Battalion and designated as the 66th Infantry Regiment (with Companies A,B,C and D becomming Companies A,B,E and K respectively) on October 2, 1863, per S.O.#234, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.

FIRST COMMANDER:  Clement G. Wright (Major)

ASSIGNMENT:  District of North Carolina, Department of North Carolina (May-October 1863)

Crismond, Cravin, Pvt., Co. A
Alternate spelling?: Craven

Maj. General D. H. Hill issued Special Orders No. 56, Department of North Carolina on May 19, 1863, combining four companies of independent local railroad guards into the 13th Battalion, N. C. Infantry. Captain Clement G. Wright, who had previously served as aide-de- camp on General Robertson's staff and in 63rd Regiment, N. C. Troops (5th N. C. Cavalry), was promoted to Major and placed in command of the battalion. In some reports, the battalion was called "Wright's Battalion" and some early reports referred to it as "4th Battalion, N. C. Troops" but this seems in error -- the official designation for the organization seems always to have been 13th Battalion, N. C. Infantry. William C. Jordan was transferred from 41st Regiment N. C. Troops (3rd N. C. Cavalry), promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, transferred to Field and Staff of the battalion and appointed "Assistant Commissary of Subsistence". Willie B. Wright wastransferred from Company D of the Battalion and promoted to Sergeant Major. John H. Upperman was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant on the Field and Staff of the battalion. It is unclear whether the unit was ever tendered for Confederate service -- it is more likely that it remained in State service.

COMPANY A -- This company was organized as Captain Joseph W. Latta's Company (Railroad Guards), N. C. Troops, in Orange County on November 20, 1861. Hillsborough, NC in Orange County was one of the major stops on the North Carolina Railroad, which ran from Raleigh through Durham, Hillborough, High Point (so named because it was the highest point geographically on the railway) to Charlotte.  This company was assigned to the 13th Battalion on 19th May 1863 and designated Company A.