The 8th, in February 1865, was assigned to the brigade commanded by BGen. Starke, recently promoted from Colonel of the 28th.
George Martin
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 16.
HDQRS. CHALMERS' DIVISION OF CAVALRY,
Columbus Miss., February 18, 1865.
[in part]
VI. The following regiments, battalions, and companies will report to Brig. Gen. P. B. Starke, commanding brigade cavalry, for duty: Eighth Confederate Regiment Cavalry, Eighth Mississippi Regiment Cavalry, Seventh Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, Twenty-eighth Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, Eighteenth Mississippi Battalion Cavalry, Companies C, D, E, H, and K, Fifth Mississippi Cavalry.
By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:
OR V49, Pt. 1, p. 994
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Colonel Starke [28th Mississippi Cavalry] was promoted to Brigadier-General November 4, 1864, and the regiment [28th Mississippi Cavalry] is assigned to his brigade in General Chalmers' orders of February, 1865. When Gen. J. H. Wilson started on his raid through Alabama and Georgia in March and April, 1865, the brigade moved from Pickensville, Ala., to meet him, and after three days and nights of marching and countermarching arrived near Selma during the assault upon the fortifications there, April 2, but were cut off from the town by the Federal troops and were unable to render any assistance. When Selma was taken they were compelled to retire in the night, thirty miles, across the Cahawba River, after which they moved to Livingston and went into camp. There the last muster rolls were made, up to April 31, 1865. The capitulation by Gen. Richard Taylor occurred May 4, 1865. The cavalry commands under General Forrest were surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., May 22, 1865. [http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/28th_MS_CAV.htm]