SEVENTY-FIRST KEGIMENT.

(SECOND JUNIOR RESERVES. )

 

By DAVID E. McKINNE, Caprain Company A.

 

The Second Regiment Reserves (Juniors) was formed by
the consolidation of the Second and Fifth Battalions, with

the addition of other companies.
THE SECOND BATTALION.

This battalion was composed of three companies, Company
A, Captain W. H. Overman ; Company B, Captain J. Q. Hol-
land; Company O, Captain John K. Wells, and was organized
31 May, 1864, at Camp Holmes near Raleigh, by the elec-
tion of John H. Anderson, Major. Major Anderson had
served as a private in the “Bethel” Regiment and later as
First Lieutenant Company D, Forty-eighth North Carolina,

 

and had resigned on account of wounds. His battalion 2
June was ordered to Goldsboro. There on 15 June Captain

T. ©. Rowland’s company was added, as Company D.

THE FIFTH BATTALION.

This battalion was also of three companies. Company A,
Captain A. R. Hicks; Company B, Captain J. W. Grainger,
and Company C, Captain McD. Boyd. It was organized at
Goldsboro 2 June, 1864, by electing W. F. Beasley Major.
Major Beasley had seen service as First Lieutenant Com-
pany H, Forty-eighth North Carolina Regiment. A few
days later Captain S. Spears’ company, afterwards command-
ed by Captain Corl, was added to this battalion and both these
battalions were ordered to Weldon.

ANDERSON 'S BATTALION.

SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

W. F. Beasley, Lieut.-Colonel. 5. Wm. H. Overman, Captain, Co. B. On 16 July at Weldon the Second and Fifth Battalions

N. A. Gregory, Major. 6. B. F. Rogers, 2d Lieut., Co. E.

D, E. McKinne, Captain, Co. A. 7. BR. M. Furman, 2d Lieut., Co. B. were combined into Anderson’s Battalion of eight compa-

J. Q. Holland, Captain, Co. C. 8. M. P. A. Ludwig, Drummer, Co. F. ‘ : a
Q I 9. J. W. Denmark, Drummer, Co. A, nies by electing Ae H. Anderson Lieutenant-Colonel and Ww.

F. Beasley Major.