SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

(SEVENTH CAVALRY. )

BY
COL. JOHN T. KENNEDY, ann
LIEUT. W. F. PARKER, Company F.

By paragraph § cf Special Orders No. 161, from Adju-
tant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, Va., 11 July,
1864, it was ordered as follows: “The five North Carolina
companies of the Seventh Confederate Regiment, the three
North Carolina companies, D, E and I, of the Sixty-second
Georgia Kegiment and Company ©, of the Twelfth North
Carolina Battalion will constitute the Sixteenth Battalion
North Carolina Cavalry to the command of which Lientenant-
Colonel Jno. T. Kennedy is hereby assigned.” This order
will be found in 82 Vol. (Serial No.) Off. Rec. Union and
Confed. Armies at p. 763, and also in Serial Vol. 129 of same
publication at page 536. One of the North Carolina com-
panies (Kennedy’s) in the Sixty-second Georgia had become
so large that it had already been divided into two companies
(Richardson and Dees), so that at the time of above order
there was really four North Carolina companies, which
obeyed the order of transfer, making a complete regiment.
This was to be the Seventh North Carolina Cavalry, or Sev-
enty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, of which John T. Ken-
nedy was Colonel, Jno. B. Edelin was Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Captain Pitts was promoted to Major. But Colonel
Kennedy being wounded, was placed on detached service,

SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT. and Lientenant-Colonel Edelin was in command till his cap-

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1. John A. Collins, 1st Lieut.,Co.F. 8. E. J. Holt, ist Lieut., Co. A. ture in March, 1865, when Major Pitts took command. In
2. W.F. Parker, 2d Lieut., Co. F. 4. W. H. Call, Ord. Sergeant. 7 the rush of events the formal order to change the designation

to Seventh Regiment of Cavalry (or Seventy-fifth North
Carolina) was either not issued or not observed. Though
having ten companies and a Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel and
Major, it was in fact a regiment commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Edelin, it officially retained the desienation of Six-