57th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was organized at Salisbury, North Carolina, in July 1862. Its men were recruited in the counties of Rowan, Forsyth, Catawba, Cabarrus, Lincoln, and Alamance. Sent to Virginia, the regiment was assigned to General Law's, Hoke's, Godwin's, and W. G. Lewis' brigade. It served and fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Fredericksburg to Mine Run, and then returned to North Carolina. After it served in the Kinston area, the 57th returned to Virginia. It continued the fight at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations, and around Appomattox. The unit reported 32 killed and 192 wounded at Fredericksburg, had 9 killed and 61 wounded at Chancellorsville, and twenty-two percent of the 297 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. At the Rappahannock River in November 1863, it lost 4 wounded and 292 missing. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 6 officers and 74 men of which 31 were armed. The field officers were Colonels Archibald C. Godwin and Hamilton C. Jones, Jr., and Major James A. Craige.

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