The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-23

| yolyed much exposure TO malaria and
| incessant contact with the enemy.
! Longstreet issued preparatory orders
| for mis- demonstration against Suffolk,
| April 18th, and was particular to direct
| that wires be stretched across the
! roads leading 10 the strong cavalry
! force OF the q. =. troops.
On the 2lst of the same month, by
orders from Richmond, the regiment
| was attached to Bobertson's brigade,
| A. n. v, but was placed almost mme-
| diately on detached service on the
! Blackwater.
On June 18th, 1868, Capt Milligan,
of the Confederate Signal Corps, re
! ports that with detachment Of the
! 3rd n. c. Cavalry he had burned Dill
! lard's wharf, on the south side of the
| river from jamestown Island. This
was fayorite landing place for pred
/ atOry iDcursiOns of the enemy. Under
date Of June 18th, Gen. ID. II. Hill re-
| ports '"TheYankees, with ten regi-
ments of infantry, two of cavalry and
! sixteen pieces, have been feebly at
tempting to cross the Blaclxwate for
! the last five days. They have been re-
! pulsed at all points with ease by the
| forces of Gen. M. Jenkins, Col John
: A. Baker and Col. Aft. Coppens."
| The regiment was now i'm demand in
various directions, remaining but a
! brief period at any point. July list it
was ordered to Old Church to inter
| cept raiders coming up the Peninsula
! and to watch the Pamunkey Hard
| service had left about two hundred
| men of the command without horses.
July 18th the regiment was made a
| part of the division Of Maj. Gen. Robt
| Ransom On the goth of the month
! Gen. Whiting asked. for it from Gen.
| Cooper, saying,"I need very much an
| additional force of cavalry, can / not
| have Bakers regiment from Peters
burg? On the22nd he applied for it
again to go to Gen. Martin at Kinston
to stop raids of the enemy. but the
Union forces having appeared at Muir
freesborO, the regiment was ordered
on the 9th to the Blackwater to check
an advance toward Weldon.
In August it was encamped at Ivor,
a station on the road then called Nor
folk and Petersburg, now a portion of
the Norfolk and Western line
1t was about this time that newspa-
per reports, upon the Gettysburg came
paign and others, had been full of ex-
travagant praise for troops of certain
other States, but North Carolina had
been treated with neglect and even
gross injustice. A proposition was
made that official reporters should ac-
company the army, or at least that the
authentic official reports of officers on
the field should be published This
was broughtto the attention of Gen.
Lee by the Hon. j. \. Seldom, Stcre-
tary of War, to whom the great com
mo- far FaUliaI GanfaTnI no
1868, i'm words which should bring the
glow of pride to the heart of every
Carolinian. ''In the reports of the Off
GERS justice is done the brave soldiers
of North Carolina whose heroism and
devotion have illustrated the name of
their State on every battlefield in
which the army of Northern Virginia
has been engaged, but the publication
of these reports during the progress
of the war would give the enemy infor-
nation which it is desirable to with
hold"
in November the regiment was
camped near Weldon, but by the end
of the year it was on the ground where
it was organized, reporting, on Deem
Der 31st, "a officers and j54 men pres
ent for duty, although the rolls have
971 names.
Early in the new year, January 9th,
1864, it was engaged in a skimish near
Greenyille. Toward the end of Janu-
airy Gen. Lee sent Gen. Picket with five
brigades to attack and attempt to re-
capture Newbern. The 41st was por-
ton of the cavalry ordered upon the
expedition. This cavalry endured
great hardships in breaking up the
! railroad between Morehead and New
bern, in passing around the town and
in crossing the river However this
much was accomplished, though the
general undertaking was defeated
On April 22nd, Col. Baker was or
dered to report to Gen. Lee for the as
signment of the regiment to Gen. J.
! Il. Gordon's brigade. But when in
camp near Weldon it was ordered,
| MAY Bird, )by Brig. Gen. Walker, to-
! ward Newbern, and it took part in the
| feint executed by Gen. Hoke in that
/ section Gen. bearing, then com
handing all the cavalry near New
! bern, ordered it TO KiDston, which was
| reached on the evening of the eth of
| May. Thence by Holxe's orders, it pro-
| ceeded by the highway to Weldon.
| The three companies serving in the
! Department of North Carolina were
/ ordered May 2nd, to join their regl-
/ ment, and on the 18th it was required
| to move with Hoke's Division to pro-
| tect the right flank, i'm the movement,
near Petersburg, Of Beauregard
| against Butler.
Gen. Bragg, then in command at
/ Richmond, complained to Gen. S. Coop
/ er that Bakers cavalry had been de-
| tanned by Beauregard after its orders
! to protect Richmond. and that thus
the safety of the capital had been jeo-
pardized.
! Beauregard answers the complaint
as follows, and incidentally express
his high appreciation of the Carolina
| troopers:
Gen. Bragg in his communication
| has declared that the Third n. G..
| Cavalry was detained for three weeks
without the shadow of authority; and
| that by the delays occasioned by in
| authorized assumptions in the move
ments of troops the safety of the CAPT
tai has been jeopardized.
/ beg leave respectfully to reply that
/