- Title
- Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 [v.4]
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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.4]
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SEVENTY-NINTH REGIHENT.
(eighth cavalry.)
By S. V. PICKENS. Adjutant.
This regiment had its nucleus in three companies known
as Wood fins Battalion. Afterwards it was raised to six com¬
panies and was then
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and reported officially as the
Fourteenth Battalion. It, was only in the Spring of 1865
that it was raised to a regiment by the addition of four more
companies. It is therefore proper to give some account of
these battalions.
woodfin’s battalion of cavalry.
In order to give a connected history of this command it is
not amiss to write something of a sketch, at the outset of
Company G of the First North Carolina Cavalry, for this
was, in a sense, and to a limited degree, the nucleus of said
battalion. It was one of the earliest organizations in the
State for the Confederate service, made up of men and boys
from Buncombe, Henderson and Rutherford, with a few from
other western counties, aggregating in numbers one hundred
and twenty. Many of them were from the very best fami¬
lies of the country, some of them attaining distinction in the
long and bloody war which followed. The commander, J no.
W. Woodfin, a born horseman and as chivalrous as any knight
of the olden time and full of patriotism and devotion to the
dear Southland, was an inspiration to this gallant band he had
gathered around him, and it is not surprising that they were
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