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I don't know much about Cavalry during the American Civil war at all. I am a genealogist first and a historian second. I do have one lone ancestor who served in the cavalry and he served in what appears to be a very obscure unit. I don't have time to research this in detail but I am kind of interested to learn which engagements or battle's his unit was involved in. My GGG Grandfather James Daughtry enlisted as a Private in Captain Norfleet's Company 1st Battalion Georgia Partisan Rangers on August 1, 1862. This company later became Company L, 62nd Georgia Cavalry. My ancestor appears in the compiled Service records for the 62nd Georgia Cavalry. He was then transferred to Company H, 62nd Georgia Cavalry which appears to have served as Artillery. My ancestor last appears in the compiled service record of the 62nd Georgia Cavalry on a roll of Officers and Men of Co. H (Artillery) 62nd Regt. Georgia Cavalry in accordance with instructions received from Col. J. R. Griffin Oct. 19, 1864. The roll is dated October 20, 1864 at Hicksford Virginia and shows a "Date of Transfer" of September 20, 1862, this must be when he was trnasferred from the Partisan Rangers to the 62nd Georgia Cavalry or when he was transferred from Company L to Company H...one of the two. The 62nd Georgia Cavalry had two companies from North Carolina. It was broken up, the two North Carolina companies being removed to joining a North Carolina Cavalry unit. The rest were consolidated with a smaller Cavalry Battalion and became the 8th Georgia Cavalry. My ancestor appears in the Compiled service records of the 8th Georgia Cavalry as well. He was in Company H, 8th Georgia Cavalry. He only has one card in his 8th Georgia Cavalry file, a muster roll dated August to December 31st, 1864. It gives his enlistment date as October 15, 1863 at Franklin Virginia and he is listed as Present.
I have been trying to come up with a list of engagements that these two units were involved in. So far, the only one I have been able to say for a fact they were at was Petersburg. The National Park service websites lists another. Here is what the national service says about the 62nd Ga Cavalry:
62nd Regiment Partisan Rangers was formed during the fall of 1862 when the 2nd Regiment and 15th Battalion Georgia Partisan Rangers were reorganized. Three companies were from North Carolina and the Georgia companies were from Dougherty, Liberty, and Baker counties. The unit served in Georgia and North Carolina and in December, 1863, totalled 408 effectives. During May, 1864, it was assigned to J. Dearing's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and fought at Drewry's Bluff and in various conflicts south of the James River. On July 11, 1864, the regiment was ordered to disband. Seven Georgia companies merged into the 8th Georgia Cavalry and the North Carolina companies became part of the 16th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion. Its commanders were Colonel Joel R. Griffin, Lieutenant Colonels John T. Kennedy and Randolph Towns, and Major William L.A. Ellis.
It has no information on the 8th Georgia Cavalry. The information on the 62nd Ga Cav. mentions them being part of Dearing's Brigade and participating at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff...I have looked at battle maps of both the first and second battles of Drewry's Bluff and find no Dearing's Brigade on any of them. Do find them on a battle map of Petersburg. They were indeed in Dearing's Brigade, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee's Division, Hampton's Cavalry Corps....
Here is a photograph of my ancestor which his second wife, I am descended from his first wife. He was relatively well off after the war, one of the few men in his area who was so there is no pension to fill in details and his service record is very sparse on information. I would be interested to know which engagement these two units were involved in
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I have been trying to come up with a list of engagements that these two units were involved in. So far, the only one I have been able to say for a fact they were at was Petersburg. The National Park service websites lists another. Here is what the national service says about the 62nd Ga Cavalry:
62nd Regiment Partisan Rangers was formed during the fall of 1862 when the 2nd Regiment and 15th Battalion Georgia Partisan Rangers were reorganized. Three companies were from North Carolina and the Georgia companies were from Dougherty, Liberty, and Baker counties. The unit served in Georgia and North Carolina and in December, 1863, totalled 408 effectives. During May, 1864, it was assigned to J. Dearing's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and fought at Drewry's Bluff and in various conflicts south of the James River. On July 11, 1864, the regiment was ordered to disband. Seven Georgia companies merged into the 8th Georgia Cavalry and the North Carolina companies became part of the 16th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion. Its commanders were Colonel Joel R. Griffin, Lieutenant Colonels John T. Kennedy and Randolph Towns, and Major William L.A. Ellis.
It has no information on the 8th Georgia Cavalry. The information on the 62nd Ga Cav. mentions them being part of Dearing's Brigade and participating at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff...I have looked at battle maps of both the first and second battles of Drewry's Bluff and find no Dearing's Brigade on any of them. Do find them on a battle map of Petersburg. They were indeed in Dearing's Brigade, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee's Division, Hampton's Cavalry Corps....
Here is a photograph of my ancestor which his second wife, I am descended from his first wife. He was relatively well off after the war, one of the few men in his area who was so there is no pension to fill in details and his service record is very sparse on information. I would be interested to know which engagement these two units were involved in
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