92 Nortu Carorina Troops, 1861-65. County, of which S. M. Johnson was First Lieutenant, and S. L. Lander and John A. Welch were Second Lieutenants. Captain J. A. Clement a company from Davie, with L. G. Gaither First Lieutenant, and B. F. Nichols and C. E. Har- per Second Lieutenants. In August, 1862, Thompson’s, Kennedy’s and Duvall’s companies became a part of the Sixty-second Georgia Regi- ment, in which they served through 1862, 1863 and till 11 July, 1864. When it was organized in 1862, Captain Na be Kennedy was made Major, and Captain R. P. Howell Quar- termaster. These officers were all the recognition the North Carolina companies received at the hands of their Georgia omrades. : The Sixty-second Georgia, during the fall of 1862 and the whole of 1863 till May, 1864, was on picket duty and fre- quently engaged with scouting and raiding parties of the en- emy who were in strong force in Plymouth, Washington, New Bern, N. C., and in Suffolk, Va., and from the Spring of 1863 it and the Seventh Confederate Cavalry were all the cavalry between Petersburg, Va., and Wilmington, N. C. They were broken up into companies and squadrons and for months at a time the men were on picket every other day. They were forced to depend for forage for their horses and food for themselves on the country in which they happened to be. They were present and bore their full share in the capture of Plymouth and the investment of Washington and New Bern. Near Tarboro the three North Carolina companies under the command of Major Kennedy, engaged a largely superior force of the enemy in Potter’s raid, and in an open, square fight, killed, wounded, captured or put to flight every Yankee in the party. We pursued the raiders to the banks of Neuse river, near New Bern, N. C., and if the infantry Colonel who was in command at that point had yielded to Major Kennedy’s request to push them, the whole force would have been captured. The whole of 1863 and till May, 1864, was spent in guarding the eastern part of the State and the southern part of Virginia. In May, 1864, we marched to Petersburg, Va., and were a Sreventy-Firra REGIMENT. 93 part of General Beauregard’s forces that met and successfully drove back the first assault on Petersburg, and were on hand on the north side of the Appomattox when Butler was bottled up at Bermuda Hundreds. In June Lieutenant-Colonel Kennedy was severely wounded in a hot fight near City Point, below Petersburg, Va. We were then in Brigadier-General James Dearing’s Brigade. We were kept busy all through the summer of 1864 in guarding General Lee’s right and in June we followed the Wilson raider’ from the time they crossed the Weldon Railroad to near. Danville, Va., and back to Reams Station. On that raid we were hotly engaged at Blacks and Whites, on the Richmond & Danville Railroad, and had several running fights. It was a sorry lot of Yan- kees we let go back. A few, however, did go through. There was more or less fighting almost every day on our part of General Lee’s line in that awful summer of 1864. General Grant was moving south and stretching General Lee’s line continuously and our brigade was always expected to meet them on every move, and we did, at Jones’ farm, Reams Station, the Davis farm, Burgess’ Mill, Armstrong’s Mill, Poplar Spring Church and several other points which have passed from the writer’s memory. In July, 1864, the North Carolina companies were taken out of the Sixty-sec- ond Georgia Regiment and Captain E. A. Martin’s company from the Twelfth Battalion, and added to the Sixteenth North Carolina Battalion, which had been formed by the North Carolina companies of Captain W. K. Lane, Captain B. C. Clement, Captain J. A. Clement, Captain L. J. Bar- rett, and Captain F. G. Pitts, which had been taken from the Seventh Confederate Cavalry. During Colonel Kennedy’s absence Lientenant-Colonel J. B. Edelin, of Maryland, was in command of the Seventy- fifth Regiment, which was thus formed, though it was still styled usually the Sixteenth Battalion. Captain F. G. Pitts was promoted to Major, John R. Moore ‘Adjutant, W. H. Call, of Company G, Ordnance Sergeant. In February, 1865, General Dearing was transferred to a Virginia command. He was a splendid officer and his whole brigade regretted his change of command.