14th Cavalry Battalion, formerly Woodfin's Battalion, was organized
at Asheville, North Carolina, during the summer of 1862 with three companies; later increased to six. The men were from Buncombe,
Haywood, Transylvania, and Madison counties. It was assigned to North Carolina and southern Virginia. In the spring of
1865 four additional companies from Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania counties joined the command and it was officially
designated the 69th North Carolina Regiment-7th Cavalry, Lt. Colonel James L. Henry, commanding. There are only two references
to the Sixty-ninth North Carolina Regiment in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; both references
are to Lt. Colonel Henry and the cavalry regiment (O.R., i, 49, i, 1034 and O.R., i, 49, i, 1035). The other references to Henry's Cavalry are the Sixty-ninth
North Carolina and Sixty-ninth North Carolina State Troops. The regiment fought at Salisbury on
April 12 and disbanded near Morgantown on April 17. Lt. Colonel James L. Henry and Major Charles M. Roberts were in command.
Sources: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Walter Clark,
Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865; National Park Service: American
Civil War; National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors System; Weymouth T. Jordan and Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops,
1861-1865; and D. H. Hill, Confederate Military History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In The Civil War, 1861-1865.
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