44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

The 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

The regiment moved north and joined the Army of Northern Virginia, guarding rail junctions during the Battle of Gettysburg.

For the rest of the war, the regiment served in the North Carolina brigade successively commanded by Pettigrew, Kirkland, and MacRae.

While the rest of Pettigrew's brigade moved on to Gettysburg, where it fought in Pickett's Charge, the regiment was left behind at Hanover Junction to guard the rail line there,[3] securing the army's communications to Richmond.

The remaining four companies, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Tazewell L. Hargrove, were each assigned to guard a bridge of the Fredericksburg and Central Railroads across the South Anna and Little Rivers.

From late 1864 to the northern hemisphere spring of 1865, the regiment fought in the Siege of Petersburg south of the James River, in which it again suffered heavy casualties.