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Captain Yancey Tickell, "Summer's District" Company, 48th Regiment N.C. Militia (1861 organization) and Company E, 4th Regiment N.C. Home Guard (2nd Organization).
Yancey Tickell* farmed in Alamance County with his wife and on December 4, 1861, received a commission as captain the "Summer District" Company, one of fifteen companies in the 48th Regiment N.C. Militia (1861 organization). Some militia units saw limited service in the early part of the war, but the daunting necessity of additional manpower for the Confederate army rapidly drained the strength from the regiments. Militia officers were exempt from Confederate military service and a few enlisted men also received exemptions, either because of their professions or ill-health.**
On July 7, 1863, the North Carolina legislature created the North Carolina Home Guard, to include men from eighteen to fifty exempt from Confederate service and including all militia officers below the rank of colonel. Although a few militia officers served in the same capacity in the Home Guard, most officers became privates. Counties not under Federal occupation organized Home Guard battalions of two or more companies, and some of the larger counties fielded regiments. Yancey Tickell, formerly a captain of the 48th Regiment N.C. Militia became a private in the 48th Battalion N.C. Home Guard.***
Little is known of the operations of the 48th Battalion. About October 1863 it was combined with the 36th Home Guard Battalion (Caswell County) to form the 2nd Regiment N.C. Home Guard (1st organization).**** The union with the 36th Battalion was seemingly temporary, because in August 1864 the 48th Battalion was one of eleven Home Guard battalions called into the field against groups of deserters who had banded together in Chatham, Randolph, Montgomery, and Moore counties. That force was placed under the command Collett Leventhorpe, formerly colonel of the 11th and 34th Regiments N.C. Troops, who had been appointed a Home Guard brigadier general.
Home Guardsmen were organized as 1st Class and 2nd Class, so when a callup was received, not all men would have to leave their communities. In October 1864 a regiment known as the 4th Regiment N.C. Home Guard (2nd Organization) was organized to consist of the 2nd Class men at least thirteen counties. Company E of the new command was comprised of the contingents from Alamance and Lenoir counties. The service of only nineteen men can be documented in that company, but one of them was Yancey Tickell, who received a parole at Greensboro on May 11, 1865. (See Comment No. 2, below.)
Yancey Tickell (March 6, 1825-October 20, 1918) is buried at Friedens Lutheran Church Cemetery. Gibsonville, Guilford County, North Carolina.
Image: Digital copy of hand-tinted full plate ferrotype, courtesy of John W. Martin, great-great-grandson of Yancey Tickell.