iz Norto Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

teenth Battalion till the very end. Jno. R. Moore was Adju-
tant and W. H. Call, of Company G, was made Ordnance
Sergeant ; Sergeant-Major John MeGuy; Surgeon, Dr. Eves.

The North Carolina companies, D, E and I, of the Sixty-
second Georgia, were all raised in 1862. They became in
the new command: .

Company A—Wayne and Johnston—Captain, W. A.

( Json. ne
nent ee B—Wayne, Wake and J ohnston—Originally
commanded by Captain J. T. Kennedy, then divided into two
companies, Captain John A. Richardson and Geo.. T. Dees.

Company C—Forsyth and Guilford—Captain, T. R. Du-
vall. These three companies had been assigned to Colonel
Griffin’s Sixty-second Georgia in August, 1862. They
served in 1862-63 and till May, 1864, on the Blackwater in
Virginia and Eastern North Carolina. This command was
engaged in scouting and was in frequent i geet with a
enemy, especially around Plymouth, Washington, N. C., an

New Bern. Captain J. T. Kennedy was elected Major of
the Sixty-second Georgia.
i ‘
The five companies transferred from Colonel Claiborne’s,
later Colonel James Dearing’s Seventh Confederate Cavalry,

became:

Company D—Captain J. J. Lawrence, later Captain L. G.
Pitts, from Wilson and Johnston.
Company E—Captain B. C. Clement, from Davie.
Company F—Captain W. K. Lane, of Wayne. The com-
pany was from Halifax.
Company G—Captain J. A. Clement, from Davie.
Company H—Captain E. A. Martin was from Northarap
ton and had been, till the above order, Captain Company ©
in the Twelfth (Wheeler’s) Battalion, and as such had done
service since its organization in 1862 on the Chowan.
Company I—Captain F. G. Pitts, from Edgecombe, and
after his promotion to Major, by Captain J. B. Edgerton.
Company K—The fourth company transferred from Grif-
fin’s Sixty-seeond Georgia, and which had been created by
dividing Kennedy’s original company became Company K in

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the new regiment and was commanded by Captain George

T. Dees.

The Seventh Confederate Cavalry, to which five of these
companies belonged, was broken up into companies and squad-
rons, and performed similar duties to the Sixty-second
Georgia throughout Eastern North Carolina and Southeast
Virginia. In May, 1864, both commands were ordered to
Petersburg and there the North Carolina companies in these
regiments were assembled into a new command, entirely com-
posed of North Carolina companies as above stated. In the
meantime, Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Kennedy had been
severely wonnded in a hot fight near City Point in June,
1864, and was not able to be with the new regiment after
its organization but very little.

To give a history that will embrace these companies after
their organization in 1862 up to the formation of the regi-
ment in 1865, it will be necessary to give something of their
history while parts of Griffin’s Sixty-second Georgia, and
while the others were in Claiborne’s, later Dearing’s Seventh
Confederate Cavalry, and then of their carcer after the for-
mation of the Sixteenth Battalion (later Seventy-fifth Regi-
ment) 11 July, 1864.

The Sixty-second Georgia Regiment was organized at
Garysburg. Joel R. Griffin was Colonel, —. —. Towns, of
Georgia, Lientenant-Colonel, and Jno. T. Kennedy, Major, as
an acknowledgment to the three North Carolina companies
in the regiment. We were drilled by General Beverly H.
Robertson, an officer who had been in the cavalry service in
the West. There were seven companies of Georgia and
three from North Carolina, which were afterwards increased
to four by the division of Kennedy’s old company as above
stated. Captain Duvall’s, from Guilford County ; Captain
W. A. Thompson’s, from Wayne County ; Captain J. A. Rich-
ardson’s, of Wayne, who succeeded the writer, who was then
Major, and G. T. Dees, of Wayne also. The Seventh Con-

federate Regiment drilled with us. In November, 1862,
the camp of instruction was left for active service. Colonel
Griffin was ordered to Franklin, Va., and remained there