Talk:7th Regiment, Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne's Partisan Rangers)(Confederate)

Claiborne's Partisan Rangers were also known as the 7th Confederate Cavalry. Parts of this outfit might have been originally recruited in tidewater North Carolina for resistance to Union occupation under General Burnside. The Partisan Ranger Act was passed by the Confederate Congress in June of 1862. Various Partisan Ranger outfits might have been combined to form the 7th Confederate Cavalry. Their commanders were Colonel William C Claiborne and Lt Colonel Thomas D Claiborne.

George and Mary Musick of Lowell, Carroll County, Georgia, had five sons. George was a descendent of George Musick Jr, the son of George and Ann Musick of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Joseph M Musick and Jonathan Colbert Musick served in Claiborne's Partisans. One of their brothers was wounded at Clinton, Tennessee, and the other two fell Before Atlanta.

Claiborne's Partisans were composed of companies from Georgia and North Carolina. (They are sometimes confused with the 7th Battalion Confederate Cavalry and the 7th North Carolina Cavalry.) About a dozen members of the unit died at Point Lookout. Most of the prisoners at Point Lookout were taken at Gettysburg in July 1863, but most of the members of Claiborne's Partisans were captured at Deep Bottom during the final defense of Richmond.

In early 1864 the Confederate Congress dissolved all Partisan Ranger units. The 7th Confederate Cavalry was reorganized in July 1864. Companies A, B, C, D, E, K, and L went to the 10th Georgia Cavalry, State Guard. The 10th Georgia fought south of the James River, in North and South Carolina, finally surrendering to the Army of Tennessee. They were commanded by Lt Colonel Thomas D Claiborne. Companies F, G, H, I, and M of the 7th Confederate Cavalry went to 16th Battalion North Carolina Cavalry.