The Mecklenburg County Regiment was authorized on May 31, 1775 by the Province of North Carolina Congress.

[1] The Mecklenburg County Regiments (both 1st and 2nd) were under the command of Salisbury District Brigade and General Griffith Rutherford when it was established on May 4, 1776 through the end of the war.

When the North Carolina General Assembly of 1779 approved the creation of a 2nd Mecklenburg County Regiment on November 7.

The 2nd Mecklenburg County Regiment was short lived and it was disbanded in the third quarter of 1780, about the time of the Battle of Camden.

[5][6] The Independent Corps of Light Horse was established in June of 1780, mostly from men in the Mecklenburg County Regiment.