THE ROBERTS CAVALRY BRIGADE.

By E. J. HOLT, First Lizurenant Company A, SEvENTy-Firra N. ©. T.

Upon the dissolution of Dearing’s Brigade, Colonel Wil-
liam P. Roberts, of the Nineteenth North Carolina (Second
Cavalry), was promoted Brigadier-General 21 February,
1865, and placed in command of a new brigade composed of
the Fifty-ninth and Seventy-fifth North Carolina Regiments
(Fourth and Seventh Cavalry). The latter, however, had
been only recently raised to a regiment and was till the very
last still officially reported as the Sixteenth Battalion. The
brief career of the brigade is effectively told in the Histories
herein of the two regiments composing it—especially in the
appendix to General Roberts’ history of the Nineteenth at
pp. 108-109 of Vol. 2 of this work.

The Staff officers were:

Captain Tueropore S. Garnett, A. A. G.
Caprain Wm. ©. Coucuenovr, Inspector-General.
Linurenant Jas. E. Wess, Ordnance Officer.

Lieutenant W. P. Hotcomss, Aide.
Captain J. B. Braarr, A. Q. M.

In that sketch it is repeated, as is also stated: by me in
the sketch of the Seventy-fifth Regiment, that the last shots
at Appomattox were really fired by this command and not by
Cox’s Brigade of North Carolina Infantry. Beyond con-
troversy, we captured the last guns, four Napoleons.

At Appomattox only 95 members of the Brigade were left
to be surrendered, 5 officers and 88 men.
E. J. Horr.

Smirurietp, N. C.,
9 April, 1901.