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- Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 [v.1]
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- Date
- 1901
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- Creator
- ["Clark, Walter, 1846-1924."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 [v.1]
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ADDITIONAL SKETCH NINTH REGIMENT.
(FIRST CAVALRY).
By COLONEL W. H, CHEEK.
General Barringer, in his preceding sketch of the First North
Carolina Cavalry, so fully described the organization, instruction
and movements of our regiment up to the time of his promotion to
Brigadier-General in June, 1864, that it is impossible for me at
this late day, with the limited data at my command, to enlarge
or to improve upon his narrative. There are, however, several
engagements during the time covered by General Barringer’s
article which I consider so well calculated to illustrate the talent
of our officers and the courage and discipline of the enlisted
men, and which added so largely to building up the reputation
of the regiment, that I desire to go back and bring them for¬
ward and place them in a more conspicuous position than he has
given them.
Aud first in order of time comes the attack of Company
В
upon the gun-boats in Roanoke River in the spring of 1862. At
that time the preservation of the railroad bridge at Weldon was
of the utmost importance to the Confederacy. So, when the
regiment was returning from Eastern North Carolina to rejoin
the Army of Northern Virginia, Company B, Captain Whitaker,
was detached to do picket duty down the Roanoke, and especially
to watch the approach of the enemy’s gun-boats. Captain Whit¬
aker was a large planter on the river, and once when he was at
home, and the Company was under command of First Lieuten¬
ant A. B. Andrews, the eueniy made an effort with three gun¬
boats to ascend the river, his object being the destruction of the
railroad bridge at Weldon. Lieutenant Andrews (now Colonel
A. B. Audrews, First Vice-President of the Southern Railway
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