SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

. Denson A. Caldwell, Private, Co. F.

. N. P. Rankin, Captain, Co. I.

D. B. Coltrane, Sergeant, Co. I.

. Christopher C. Waller, Private, Co. I.
. Columbus C. Wheeler, Private, Co. I.

- John R. Erwin, Captain, Co. F.

. Paul B. Means, Private, Co. F.

. J. 8. Harris, Private, Co. F. Hamp- 7.
ton’s Scout.

. R. B. Caldwell, Private, Co. F.

ADDITIONAL SKETCH SIXTY-THIKD REGIMENT.

(FIFTH CAVALRY. )

By PAUL B. MEANS, Privarr, Company F.

The Fifth North Carolina Cavalry was a superb regiment
in every respect. It was composed of representative men,
mostly active, intelligent young men, from the counties of
Cumberland, Lenoir, Greene, Sampson, Rockingham, Chat-
ham, Mecklenburg, Davie, Guilford, Randolph, Lincoln,
Catawba, Cabarrus and a few other counties.

The moral character of this great body of men was re-
markable. After diligent enquiry, there was not a grave
offense of any sort, done in camp or elsewhere by any man
of the regiment during the entire war, which survivors of
the regiment now remember. - Of course minor offenses were
doubtless done, but none grave enough to be remembered to-
day. And this is stated and emphasized because there can be
no true courage without moral character as its basis. Such
courage is of the soul. It is a purely psychological phenome-
non. The soul is of God and cannot assert itself fully in an
immoral person. And when the soul is not on guard, not su-
preme, we are all cowards at heart in the face of any great and
recognized danger. And then, like any other simple animal,
under this trying test, we will run, unless somebody else’s
soul restrains us or our own rallies us. In camp, on the march
and on picket every duty was well done. In battle, whether
fighting on foot, as infantry, or in the mounted charge, there
never was any better troops. The First North Carolina Cav-
alry had a greater reputation than the Second, Third and the
Fifth Cavalry, which, with it, constituted the North Caro-
lina Cavalry Brigade, in the last years of the war.* But

*Colloquially so styled but by orders of the Adjutant-General’s Depart-
ment the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
Cavalry Regiments were styled respectively Ninth, Nineteenth, Forty-
First, Fifty-Ninth, Sixty-Third, Seventy-Fifth and Seventy-Sixth North
Carolina Regiments.—Ep.

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