FORTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

(THIRD CAVALRY.)

By ORDERLY SERGEANT JOSHUA B. HILL, Company K.

The Forty-first North Carolina Troops was a regiment of
cavalry ; in the official enrollment it was thus denominated,
but it was commonly styled and known as the Third Cavalry.
For a great portion of its honorable history it was scattered
over an extended field of operations and served as detached
companies of cavalry.

It should be understood that the system adopted in number-
ing the several regiments does not represent the order of the
organization of the companies in behalf of the defense of the
State and the rights of the Southern people.

For example, ten regiments raised under what was called
the “Ten Regiment Bill,” and enlisted “for the war,” as was
stated, were allowed to ante-number all previous volunteer
organizations, most of them having been enrolled for twelve
months, although, as a matter of fact, all finally served
throughout the struggle. The First Volunteers by special
act of the Legislature, was styled the “Bethel” Regiment. It
was afterwards under a new organization known as the Elev-
enth.

Regiments like the Eighteenth and Twentieth had been in
service many months at the forts before being placed in regi-
mental organization; the latter even containing companies
fully equipped before the attack upon Sumter.

In like manner many of the companies which were organ-
ized at Kinston, in the fall of 1862, had already seen large

foarte! neon. and faithful service, and it is to be hoped that surviving mem-
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8. R.S. Tucker, Captain, Co. 1. & Intent Carr, Private, Oo K, protection of Eastern Carolina, will leave memorials of their

valuable services and chivalrous deeds of daring.