SIXTY-FIFTH KEGIMENT.

(SIXTH CAVALRY.)

 

By CAPTAIN M. V. MOORE, A. Q. M.

This regiment was organized in August, 1863, by the con-
solidation of two cavalry battalions, the Fifth commanded
by Major A. H. Baird, and the Seventh Battalion commanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel Geo. N. Folk. These two battalions
had rendered efficient services in East Tennessee and Ken-
tucky. The command of the regiment was given to the senior
officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Geo. N. Folk, whose commission as
Colonel bore date 3 August, 1863. Colonel Folk had been
captain of Company D in the famous Ninth North Carolina
(First Cavalry), but resigned his position there with the view
of raising a new regiment. On the organization of the new
command, the Sixth Cavalry, a number of men and officers
from his old company and elsewhere in the First Cavalry,
sought and obtained transfers to the new command. Among
the number were Captain B. R. Brown, who commanded
Company A, Sixty-fifth (Sixth Cavalry), and who had been
Lieutenant in Company D, of the Ninth Regiment. Lieu-
tenant S. J. Brown was transferred from the ranks of Com-
pany D, Ninth Regiment, and subsequently elected to a Lieu-
tenancy in the Sixty-fifth. This writer, who was from the
organization of the regiment, Private M. V. Moore in Com-
pany D, of the Ninth (First Cavalry), had been elected to
a Lieutenancy in Company E, of the Thirty-seventh North
Carolina Infantry Regiment, a company which he had been
largely instrumental in raising in Watauga county in 1861;
but in the meantime was commissioned Captain and Assist-

SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT—SIXTH CAVALRY. ant Quartermaster by the Secretary of War, and, on request

George N. Folk, Colonel. 5. William B. Councill, Captain, Co. B. of Colonel Folk, was assigned to duty under his old com-

. Martin V. Moore, Captain and A.Q.M, 6. Stephen J. Brown, 2d Lieut., Co. A. : $
Barton Robey Brown, Captain, Co A. 7. Wiley P. Thomas, 2d Lieut., Co. A. mander in the Sixty-fifth. Captain pop. Siler, of Company

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