300 Norra Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

by Captain A. B. Dyer about 1853, who remained until about
1857. Captain Bradford was then returned, and, after a
brief stay, was succeeded by Captain Chas. P. Kingsbury.
Captain Kingsbury remained perhaps half a year, and was
sueceeded by Major T. T. S. Laidley, who remained until a
short time before the outbreak of the war, when Captain
Bradford was again restored ; and, the place being turned into
a military post, a company of artillery was added under com-
mand of Brevet Major Samuel Anderson, J. A. DeLagnel
being First Lieutenant.

Dyer, Kingsbury and Laidley remained on Northern side,
though Dyer and Laidley were Virginians, Kingsbury was a
Northern man by birth, though appointed as from North
Carolina. Dyer became Major-General and Chief of Ord-
nance of the United States Army during the war. Kings-
bury was Brigadier-General and Chief of General McClellan’s
Staff when McClellan had supreme command. Laidley be-
came Colonel of Ordnance, and missed becoming the head of
the department by a turn of favoritism.

On the Southern side Anderson became Chief of Artil-
lery on General Huger’s Staff, and afterwards Chief of
General R. H. Anderson’s Staff. DeLagnel, who was a ver-
itable hero, after the exciting and somewhat romantic career
already alluded to, became ~Assistant Chief of Ordnance of
the Confederacy under General J. Gorgas. DeLagnel was
the son of a San Domingo refugee, a gentleman (perhaps a
soldier) of high position, who came to this country with Col-
onel DeRussy, who settled in Louisiana. Mrs. DeLagnel
was of Petersburg, Va. Bradford, Dyer, Kingsbury and
Laidley,were men of a high order of ability and of high stand-
ing as professional soldiers. They were officers of the Ord-
nance Department, which ranked next to the Engineer De-
partment, and were therefore necessarily men who had stood
near the head, if not at the head of their classes at West

Point.
Marruew P. Taytor.

Fayerreviie, N. C.,
26 April, 1901.

SEVENTH BATTALION.

(CAVALRY. )

By THE EDITOR.

Captain George N. Folk, after serving a year as Captain
of Company D, Ninth North Carolina Regiment, resigned 9
May, 1862. On reaching home he immediately raised a bat-
talion of six companies of which he was made Lieutenant-Col-
onel, and which was officially styled the Seventh Battalion.
In the fall of 1862 it was sent to East Tennessee and was ac-
tively engaged in the duties of a cavalry command of that
much perturbed section. Many incidents of its career can not
now be recalled. On 20 November, it reported 486 present.
Vol. 30 (Serial) Off. Rec. Union and Confed. Armies, 412.
In December, 1862, it was on service in Carter County, Tenn.
In July, 1863, it was on the raid into Kentucky, Vol. 34, p.
830. The Spring of 1863 it was moving about in East Ten-
nessee and in April was reported “on scouting and outpost
duty” attached to Colonel John S. Scott’s Brigade. (Serial)
Vol. 35, p. 793, and in July was in Pegram’s Brigade, same
Vol., p. 946. On 3 August, 1863, this battalion was com-
bined with the Fifth Battalion commanded by Major A. H.
Baird. The regiment thus formed became the Sixty-fifth
North Carolina (Sixth Cavalry) of which Folk became Col-
onel and Baird Lieutenant-Colonel. The history of that reg-
iment is given in Vol. 3 of this work. The account. of the
Fifth Battalion wp to the date of its consolidation is printed
in this volume and it is to be regretted that some one of the
command could not do the same for the Seventh Battalion.

There was another Seventh Battalion (Reserves) com-
manded by Major W. Foster French, which was later merged
into the Seventy-second North Carolina. The battalion
numbered Seventh in Moore’s Roster was not so styled during
the war, and was doubtless part of Mallett’s (or Hahr’s) Bat-
talion, herein styled Nineteenth Battalion.