SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
J. F. Hoke, Colonel. (Also Colonel of Twenty-third.)

SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

(FOURTH RESERVES. )

By THE EDITOR.

The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Regiments
of Reserves (Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-sixth,
Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth North Carolina) being
composed of men at that time between 45 and 50 years of age,
those few still living are over 81 years of age. Hence it has
been impossible to get their histories written by participants
as has been rigidly required of other commands. We have
to rely for our scanty data upon the order books and letter
books of General T. H. Holmes, who was in charge of the or-
ganization of the Reserves in this State, which books have
been fortunately preserved by Colonel John W. Hinsdale, his
Adjutant-General, and upon such references as are found in
the “Official Records of the Union and Confederate armies.”
As to the Seventy-seventh North Carolina (Seventh Reserves)
alone we have a partial sketch, written by John G. Albright,
First Lieutenant of Company A, which was published in
“Our Living and Dead” October 1874, pp. 134-137, and
which is used as the basis of the sketch of that regiment. We
also have in Moore’s Roster, Vol. 4, pp. 333-344, the muster
rolls of six companies purporting to belong to the Seventy-
third regiment, but the Field officers and all the companies
except Company A (which belonged to the Seventy-seventh )
seem to have belonged to the Seventy-eighth (Eighth Re-
serves). At pp. 845-358 are the muster rolls of seven of the
companies of what purports to be the Seventy-fourth and its
field officers, but in fact they seem to have belonged to the
Seventy-seventh (Seventh Reserves.) To those should be
added Company A, which is erroneously given on pp. 333-335

as belonging to the Seventy-third.
The muster rolls of all the regiments of Junior and Senior

Reserves were captured, with the other Confederate muster

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