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Historical memorial of the Charlotte Cavalry.
[Our esteemed contributor, the gallant
Captain E. E. Bouldin, is a prominent and successful member of the
Virginia bar. An elder brother (whom we have known for a longer period)
Powhatan Bouldin,
Esq., was for many years the owner and editor of the
Danville Times. He is the author of ‘Home Reminiscenses of
John Randolph of
Roanoke,’ a work which in the testimony presented of those familiar with that erratic genius, seems to give the key to his eccentricity.—Ed.]
The Charlotte Cavalry was organized in
Charlotte county, Virginia,
U. S. A., in 1861.
On the 27th May, 1861, it was mustered into the service of the Southern Confederacy at
Ashland, Va.
It served in the
War 1861-5, first in
Maj. George Jackson's Battalion, with one Company from
Augusta county and two from
Rockbridge county, Virginia, until September, 1862, when it was put into the 14th Virginia Cavalry as Company ‘B.’
This Regiment served under
Brigadier-Generals A. G. Jenkins,
Jno. Mc-Causland and
R. L. T. Beale,
Major-General W. H. F. Lee's Division part of the time.
It was distinguished among kindred organizations for the personal merit of its members.
Every General it served under recognized the high intelligence and worth of its members.
It never had a member to desert.
Applicants had to be voted on before they could become members.
There were a large number of lawyers, physicians, teachers, and highly educated farmers and merchants in the
Company.
From a camp of instruction, at
Ashland, Va., it was sent in the
Spring of 1861, to
Laurel Hill,
Northwest Virginia, to
General Garnett's command.
The list of killed and wounded (forty-two) in this memorial, shows how it suffered.
After it was put into the 14th Virginia Cavalry, it, with the
Churchville Cavalry (Companies B and I) constituted the ‘charging’ Squadron of the Brigade.
Captain E. E. Bouldin was first, and
Captain James A. Wilson (of the Churchville) was Second in Command of the Squadron.
