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Muster In: Organized on September 16, 1862.1
Muster Out: Disbanded with the seven Georgia companies being transferred to the 10th Georgia Cavalry and the five North Carolina companies being transferred to the 16th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion on November 30, 1864, per S.O. #161, A&IG’s office, dated July 11, 1864.2
Commander(s):
Colonel V. H. Taliaferro
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3
- Commander: Colonel V. H. Taliaferro (June 9, 1864)4
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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army5
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army6
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army (need a source!)
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army7
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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Unattached | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army8
- Commander: Colonel V. H. Taliaferro (?) (need source)
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Dearing’s Brigade | Unattached | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army (November 1-30, 1864)9
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- Note: Disbanded with the seven Georgia companies being transferred to the 10th Georgia Cavalry and the five North Carolina companies being transferred to the 16th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion on November 30, 1864, per S.O. #161, A&IG’s office, dated July 11, 1864.10
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle:
- No longer in existence.11
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle:
- No longer in existence.12
Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles13:
- Petersburg (June 9, 1864)
- Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
- Peebles’ Farm (September 29-October 2, 1864)
- Harman Road (October 2, 1864)
- Jones’ Farm (September 30, 1864)
Bibliography:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- Confederate Casualties at Burgess Mill by Bryce Suderow
- Confederate Casualties During the Wilson-Kautz Raid: June 22-July 2, 1864
- NP: June 20, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The June 9, 1864 First Battle of Petersburg From the Petersburg Express
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Meade’s Advance, September 29-30
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
- “Southern News.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), June 20, 1864, p. 2, col. 1-2 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 123 ↩
- Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship. The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1310. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 151 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 170-171 ↩
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