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The following men were in the charge of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863:
Captain Samuel W. Weaver, captured.
First Lieutenant Richard Virmillion.
First Sergeant William A. Culpepper, wounded and captured. Second Sergeant Thomas H. Myers.
PRIVATES.
Bailey, Thomas, Bland, George, Byrd, Daniel, killed,
Cutherell, Leonard, Cross, John, killed, Cowper, Walter G.,
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Darden, Joseph, captured,
Hansford, Jas., wounded slightly.
McCoy, Rufus K., wounded,
Miltier, Daniel, wounded,
Reed, Robert E., killed,
Skinner, Abraham, captured, Urquhart, William, wounded, Williams, Samuel, captured,
Walton, George W., captured, Yates, Josiah W., wounded.
Thus, of the twenty men who went in the charge fourteen were either killed, wounded or captured.
Below will be found the roster of the company for June, 1861. Conscripts from other portions of the State who were added to the company in 1864 and 1865, are omitted because they were not Portsmouth men.
Captain William J. Richardson, promoted to Major 9th Virginia .. First Lieutenant Charles R. MeAlpin, promoted Captain Co. 1, 61st Virginia. 66 John C. Skelling, dropped at reorganization.
Captain Samnel W. Weaver, captured at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863, and not exchanged.
Lieutenant Richard Vermillion. 66 George Linn, died in hospital in Winchester 1862.
Orderly Sergeant Thomas H. Myers, wounded August 26th, 1862, at War- renton Springs.
PRIVATES.
Anderson, John, detached 1861.
Bright, Johnathan, discharged July, 1862, over age.
Bright, W. Jordan, transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Brent, John.
Bailey, Thomas A.
Bland, George.
Brown, James, drummer.
Boutwell, Richard, transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Bateman, Robert, died in hospital 1863.
Byrd, Daniel, killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Brownley, A. M , transferred to Grimes' Battery.
Culpepper, William A., promoted First Sergeant, wounded, disabled and captured at Gettysburg.
Cutherell, Leonard, wounded Drury's Bluff May 16, 1864, died in hospital. Cross, John, killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Cowper, Walter G., severely wounded at Suffolk 1863.
DeGraw, William, furnished substitute 1861.
Deakin, George.
Darden, Richard.
Day, William, transferred to Governor's Guard.
Darden, Samuel.
Darden, Joseph L., captured at Gettysburg.
Eastman, Lewis, transferred to Navy.
Futtett, George.
Grant, George W.
Goodson, Henry, transferred to Grimes' Battery.
Greenwood, James, transferred to the Navy. Gray, William.
Hansford, James, wounded May 16th, 1864, Drury's Bluff.
Hansford, Richard, transferred to Grimes Battery.
Houston, John, detached 1861.
Hall, Samuel, killed 1862 by falling tree.
Hall, Cary J., transferred to Navy 1862.
Hampton, Augustus.
Happer, Richard W. B., discharged 1861, under age.
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Howell, Fletcher, died in hospital 1863.
Hand. Samuel T., Jr., discharged 1861, disability.
Harvey, Walter, accidentally drowned 1861.
Ironmonger, C. E., transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862. Jarvis, John E.
Jollett, W. H., surrendered at Appomattox.
Linn, Charles B., transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Long, L. C., discharged August 28th, 1862, over age.
McDonell, George W. R., transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
McCoy, R. K., wounded and disabled at Gettysburg and appointed Commis- sary Sergeant, surrendered at Appomattox.
Moore, Fred E., died in hospital 1863.
Minter, Andrew, transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Morris, William T., detached 1861.
Matthews, John W., transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Nicholson, C. M., died in Chimborazo hospital February 26th, 1862. Newman, John B., discharged July, 1862, over age.
Peed, Leroy S., detailed 1863.
Pitt, L. D., transferred to Navy 1862.
Quillan, John.
Reed, Robert E., killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Sale, Henry G., discharged for disability 1863 and entered the Navy. Sheppard, William E., transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Skinner, Abraham, died at Point Lookout 1864.
Seacrist, Barclay, died at Point Lookout 1864.
Stublin, William C. (Sergeant), discharged 1862, over age.
Thompson, John W., killed May 16th, 1864, at Drury's Bluff.
Urquhart, William, wounded July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Webster, - , discharged July, 1862, over age.
Williams, Samuel.
Walton, George W.
Walton, John W., transferred to Navy 1862.
Wilkerson, William.
Watson, Joseph W.
White, Joseph, discharged for disability 1861.
White, Richard W. B., Sergeant.
Walsh, Joseph, detached 1861.
Wrench, John, transferred to Grimes' Battery 1862.
Wrenn, Edward, killed May 16th, 1864, at Drury's Bluff.
Yates, Samuel, died 1865.
Yates, Josiah D., wounded severely July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg, and slightly in three other battles.
Killed and died-16.
CHAPTER IX.
THE PORTSMOUTH RIFLE COMPANY, CO. G, NINTH VA. REGIMENT.
This company was organized in Portsmouth in 1792, conse- quently it had passed through an existence of sixty-nine years and witnessed two wars, when Governor Letcher issued his order on the 20th of April, 1861, calling its members to arms. The company was armed with old style Mississippi rifles, without bay- onets, but subsequently the City Council of Portsmouth made an appropriation to fit them with sabre bayonets, which were manu- factured in the city at the Union Car Works.
For much of the information concerning this company and also concerning the 9th Virginia Regiment, to which it was attached, the author is indebted to Orderly Sergeant John W. Wood, who kept a diary from the evacuation of Portsmouth by the Confed- erates on the 10th of May, 1862, until the close of the war.
On the 20th of April, 1861, when the company was ordered into service, the following were the officers:
Captain-John C. Owens.
First Lieutenant-Lemuel T. Cleaves.
Second Lientenant-William F. Tonkin.
Shortly afterwards Orderly Sergeant William J. Wood was elected 3d Lieutenant. The Rifles, like the other Portsmonth companies, was in the 3d Regiment. It responded promptly to the Governor's order, mustered under arms on the afternoon of the 20th of April, and on the morning of the 21st was ordered, one-half to the Navy Yard and the other half to the Naval Hos- pital Point. The following week the whole company was or- dered to Pig Point, at the month of the Nansemond river, to fortify that point. They built there a strong earthwork and manned it with guns from the Navy Yard. Captain Robert B. Pegram of the navy was assigned to the battery as commander of the post, and also for the purpose of instructing the men in the use of the heavy guns, for which service his previous experience in the United States Navy eminently qualified him. The earth- work had not been completed and only four guns had been mounted before the United States cutter Harriet Lane, mounting eight guns, made an attack upon it. The Lane took a position where only two of the guns of the battery could be brought to bear upon her and succeeded in disabling one of the guns by a well directed shot, which entered the embrasure and struck the gun on its muzzle. The fight, however, was kept up with the other gun, and after a spirited engagement of about twenty min- utes the Lane hauled off, considerably damaged and having a
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number of men injured. She was sent to Washington for re- pairs. No one was hurt in the battery. The members of the company acted with the coolness of veterans, though it was the first time they were under fire. This battle was fought June 5th, 1861.
After the fall of Roanoke Island, which took place on the 8th of February, 1862, the Federals landed a force of troops at Eliza- beth City, N. C., and in April passed over to the opposite side of the Pasquotank river and landed a brigade, under General Reno, in Camden county, and pushed on through that county towards South Mills. The 3d Georgia Regiment, under Colonel A. R. Wright, hearing of the approach of the enemy advanced by orders from headquarters to meet them, and in an engagement near South Mills compelled them to fall back to Elizabeth City. The Portsmouth Rifle Company had suffered considerably from mala- ria in their camp at Pig Point and had been removed to Ports- month for the purpose of recuperating, and were doing provost duty in the city at the time of General Reno's advance, hence, as the company was immediately available, it was ordered by Gen- eral Blanchard to march to South Mills to reinforce the Geor- gians. The 1st Louisiana Regiment and Grimes' Battery from Portsmouth were also sent there as reinforcements, but the fight was over and the enemy had retired before their arrival.
The Rifles kept on to the vicinity of Elizabeth City and did duty there as the advanced picket until it was determined by the Confederate anthorities to evacuate Portsmouth, when they re- ceived orders to retnin to the city, which they did, arriving in time to take part in the closing scenes. The company was camped at Oak Grove, on the Sonth street road about a quarter of a mile from the city, and was the last body of troops to leave. After all the other commands had moved off the Portsmonth Rifles re- ceived orders to march into the city and destroy all of the cotton and tobacco which was stored there, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy, and were eye-witnesses to all of the dread and distress which was manifested and felt by the women of Portsmouth, who were thus being abandoned to the uncertain treatment of their foes, while the men were marching off to bat- tle and possible death.
Having accomplished the object for which they had been sent back, they started at 6 o'clock P. M. May 10th and marched to Bower's Hill, where they arrived about 9 o'clock and were camped in the quarters which had been built there by the 3d Louisiana Battalion, and from which they had moved only a few hours before. The next day, the 11th, the march was resumed, but orders were received by Captain Owens to return a couple of miles back toward Portsmouth as a rear guard for the division, and they kept that distance behind the rest of the troops until
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they reached Suffolk. The Rifles were then ordered up, placed on the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad cars and taken to Weldon, from which point they were carried by rail to Petersburg, arriv- ing there on the 12th, and were quartered on Dunn's Hill.
The 9th Virginia Regiment was here united and orgamzed by the election of field officers, an account which will appear further on. The Portsmouth Rifles became known in the regiment as Company G, and, as in the reorganization of the regiment Cap- tain Owens was elected Major, a new election of officers was held in the company. Lientenant Cleaves was elected Captain, which position he held until the close of the war; Lieutenants Tonkin and Wood were each advanced one grade, and Orderly Sergeant Nathaniel C. Gayle was elected 3d Lieutenant. William II. White was elected Orderly Sergeant. He was subsequently killed at the battle of Malvern Ilill July 1st, 1862. Lieutenant Wood resigned in the winter of 1862-3, and Orderly Sergeant John H. Lewis, who had succeeded to that position on the death of Ser- geant White, was elected 3d Lientenant. There were no other changes among the commissioned officers during the war except that toward the close of the war Lieutenant Gayle received an appointment as carpenter in the Navy and was transferred to that branch of the service. Lieutenants Tonkin and Gayle were wounded at Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and Lieutenant Lewis was captured at the stone fence.
The company lost two Orderly Sergeants during the war, Ser- geant William H. White, who was killed at Malvern Hill, and Sergeant John K. Beaton, who was killed at Drury's Bluff May 16th, 1864. Upon the death of Sergeant Beaton, John W. Wood was promoted to the position and held it until the close of the war, which ended with the surrender at Appomattox.
In 1862, while the company was in the vicinity of Elizabeth City, N. C., a number of the men went bathing about sundown in the Pasquotank river, but soon had a hornet's nest about them in the form of hundreds of moccasin snakes which, having had un- disputed possession of the stream for years, entered a vigorous protest against the intruders upon their vested rights. The boys lost no time in getting to the shore and left the snakes in posses- sion of the river.
On one occasion while on picket duty about five miles from Elizabeth City near a farm house on the banks of the Pasquotank river the company formed the acquaintance of a very pretty young girl abont thirteen or fourteen years old, danghter of the gentleman who owned the place. The young lady told them that a short time before then a United States gunboat came up the river and stopped in front of the house, that a party of men came ashore from it, and one of them, a soldier, pointed his gun at her with the intention of shooting her, and would have done so had not an officer knocked down the gun with his sword.
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After the company had been on duty a short while at Pig Point Company H (Captain Niblett commanding), 59th Virginia Regi- ment, was sent to the battery as a reinforcement. This company was from Lunenburg county, Virginia, and afterwards became a part of Wise's Brigade. Camped near them as supports, were the 1st Louisiana and the 4th Georgia Regiments.
While at Pig Point Private James W. Morgan died. . He died in Angust, 1861, and was buried in Portsmouth. This was the first death in the company. Private Ephraim Bailey was taken siek from exposure while the company was in the vicinity of Elizebeth City, N. C., and died in a hospital in Richmond shortly af- ter the Confederates evacuated Portsmouth. Later on, when the company became exposed to the dangers of the battle-field and to exposure amid snow and rain, deaths became more common, and in the remaining three years of the war twenty-two of its members gave up their lives an unavailing sacrifice upon the altar of their country, while many more were prostrated by wounds which dis- abled them for life and brought them to untimely graves. The Portsmonth Rifles made for themselves a gallant record and were in the front of the battle on many a hard fought field. In the charge of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg, which stands promi- nently forward as one of the most noted events in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Portsmouth Rifle Company had forty-eight men, of whom seven were killed and so many were wounded and fell into the hands of the enemy that only seven of them were able to report for duty the day after the bat- tle. Of three commissioned officers who went with the company in the charge two were wounded and the other captured. One of the men, Corporal Lemuel H. Williams, planted the colors of the 9th Regiment at the stone wall and was killed almost at that very moment. Sergeant Joshua Grimes of Company I of Nor- folk county, was the color bearer of the regiment, and carried the colors to within twenty yards of the wall and was shot down, se- verely wounded. The flag fell with him, but Corporal Williams immediately pieked it up and bore it to the farthest point of ad- vance made by the division, when he received his death wound.
On the 24th of August, 1862, while Longstreet's Corps was pushing on after General Pope towards the battle-ground of Second Manassas the 9th Regiment was in the advance, and Con- pany G was the advance picket. That day the company captured three Federal cavalrymen, and on the 10th of May, 1864, when the bold front made by Armistead's Brigade and Gracie's Ala- bama Brigade near Drury's Bluff checked Butler's advance upon Richmond and saved the city from capture, Company G was detailed as skirmishers in front of the 38th Virginia Regi- ment. In this action Privates James W. Findley and James Land were wounded and Private William T. Edwards was cap-
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tured. On the 17th of June, 1864, after General Butler had been bottled up at Bermuda Hundreds Company G was a part of the picket line and made a charge upon and captured the Federal picket line in their front, but as the left of the Confederate picket line had failed to advance Company G returned to the original position, bringing a large number of prisoners with them.
While the 9th Regiment was advancing with Armistead's Bri- gade up the Gettysburg heights and when near the stone wall be- hind which the enemy was sheltered, Private William G. Monte of the Portsmouth Rifle Company, Company G, casting his eye along the line of advancing Confederates, then at the long lines of the enemy, who were pouring into them a deadly fire of artil- lery and musketry, and then over the country behind him where stood seven of the nine divisions of the Confederate army, ex- claimed, "What a glorious sight!" He then took his watch out of his pocket, noted the time of day and put it back again. In less than two minutes he was dead. A Federal bullet found a vital spot, and one of the bravest and coolest men in General Lee's army passed to "the great unknown."
In his official report of the battle of Pig Point, June 5th, 1861, Captain Robert B. Pegram of the Navy, who commanded the post, says :
"For men who had never been in action, the Portsmouth Rifles were remarkably cool and self possessed, and, after a few rounds, got the range of the enemy and fired admirably well. Every officer and man behaved in the most spirited and creditable man- ner, and were so regardless of danger that I had often to interpose my authority to prevent their exposing themselves unnecessarily to the enemy's fire."
The following members of the company were in the charge of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg. Some were wounded who are not so recorded, but their names cannot be recalled to memory. Their wounds were slight.
Lieutenant W. F. Tonkin, wounded.
66 Nat G. Gayle, wounded.
66 John H. Lewis, captured.
Sergeant Jolm K. Beaton, wounded.
John R. Dunn, killed.
John W. Wood.
66 L. C. Gayle, captured.
66 David W. Ballentine, captured.
Corporal Lemuel H. Williams, killed.
William H. Brittingham.
PRIVATES.
Anderton, Wm. T., captured, Buxton, John T., captured,
Brownley, Wm. K., captured, Boyd, Henry C.,
Bourke, Jos. B., captured, Bennett, William B., killed,
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Barton, Robert P., captured, Creecy, George A., wounded, Etheredge, Sam'l, litter bearer, Emmerson, George,
Edwards, William T., Edwards, Oney H.,
Denson, Virginins S.,
Ferebee, George W., captured,
Fiendly, James W.,
Ferebee, Joseph K., captured,
Grant, Jordan W., captured,
Gaskins, Thomas S., captured, Harvey, Arthur W., captured, Hargroves, John R., wounded and captured,
Harding, Milton L., captured, Kelsick, John R.,
Land, James W. T., wounded,
Lattimer, John W., killed, Lewis, George W., wounded, Monte, William G., killed, Moreland, J. Baker, captured, Myers, Stephen A., Nash, Richard J., killed,
Neville, William S., captured, Owens, Thomas C., killed, Phillips, Henry O., wounded and captured,
Phillips, Michael, captured,
Peed, Samuel S., captured, -
Revill, George A., captured,
Revill, Randall, wounded,
Sale, John E., wounded and captured, Stewart, James T.,
Williams, Millard C., wounded.
The following were present for duty but were detailed upon other service and did not go into the charge:
Brownley, Charles, Murphy, Enos, White, George A.,
Bailey, James M., Owens, A. B., Whitehurst, M. P.,
Berry, George T., Roane, Alonzo B., Wilkerson, Geo. P.,
Johnston, Theophilus, Thompkins, Thos. G.
Below will be found the list of names on the roll of the com- pany for Angust, 1861 :
Captain John C. Owens, promoted Colonel 9th Virginia, killed at Gettys- burg.
Captain Lemuel T. Cleaves.
Lieutenant William F. Tonkin, wounded July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg. Lientenant William J. Wood, resigned 1862-3.
Lieutenant Nathaniel G. Gayle, wounded at Gettysburg, transferred to Navy 1865.
Lieutenant John H. Lewis, captured at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863. First Sergeant William H. White, killed July 1st, 1862, Malvern Hill.
66 John K. Beaton, killed May 16th, 1864, Drury's Bluff.
John R. Dunn, killed July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
66 John W. Wood.
Sergeant L. Christopher Gayle, captured at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863. David W. Ballentine, captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Corporal Thomas George, transferred to Navy 1863. Theophilus F. Ash.
Lemuel H. Williams, killed July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
66 William H. Brittingham.
PRIVATES.
Anderton, William T., captured July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
Brownley, William K., captured at Gettysburg, died at Fort Delaware. Boyd, Henry C.
Buxton, John T., captured at Gettysburg, died at Point Lookout. Berry, George T., transferred to Navy 1863.
Bourke, Joseph B., captured July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
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Bennett, William B., killed July 3d, 1868, Gettysburg.
Barrett, W. H.
Burton, Robert P., captured July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg. Brownley, Charles.
Bailey, James M., killed May 16th, 1864, Drury's Bluff.
Bailey, Ephriam, died in hospital at Richmond May 5th, 1862.
Boushell, John, detached 1861 to work in Navy Yard and promoted Cap- tain in Naval battalion, Richmond,
Culpepper, Roland H.
Creecy, George A., wounded July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
Collins, George W. F. D., detailed 1862 to work in Navy.
Culpepper, Reuben, detached September, 1862.
Denson, Virginius S.
Etheredge, Samuel R. Emmerson, George W.
Edwards, William T., captured May 10th, 1864, Drury's Bluff.
Edwards, Oney H.
Edwards, Amos W., detached 1861 to work on machinery.
Ferebee, George W., captured at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863.
Ferebee, Joseph K., captured at Gettysburg, died at Point Lookout. Fiendly, James W.
Gleason, James, promoted Lieutenant Company H, 61st. Virginia Regiment. Grant, Jordan W., captured at Gettysburg, died at Point Lookout. Grant, Benjamin F., wounded and died.
Gaskins, Thomas S., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Harding, Milton L., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Hennicke, Henry O.
Harvey, Arthur W., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Hargroves, John R., wounded July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg, and captured. Holt, Edwin W.
Hundley, James H., discharged 1861, disability.
Herbert, John D.
Hoffler, Samuel, promoted Ordnance Sergeant Mahone's Brigade. Hennicke, Fred.
Johnston, Theophilus.
Johnson, Columbus, wounded at Warrenton Springs and died.
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Johnson, Augustus, killed at Warrenton Springs August 28th, 1862. Jobson, J. Tyler.
Kelsick, John R.
Land, James W. T., wounded July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg, Lattimer, John W., killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Lewis, George W., wounded July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Mathews, W. R., discharged 1861, disability.
Morris, Frank, transferred to Company I, 13th Virginia Cavalry, wounded at Williamsport 1863 and Five Forks April 1st. 1865.
Monte, William G., killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Murphy, Enos, died in hospital May 4th, 1865.
Moreland, J. B., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Myers, Stephen H.
Morgan, James W., died August, 1861, at Pig Point. Mathews, H., discharged 1862, over age.
Nash, Richard James, killed July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Neville, William S., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Owens, Thomas C., killed July 3d. 1863, at Gettysburg.
Owens, A. B., detailed as courier at brigade headquarters.
Owens, Edward M., captured at Sayler's Creek April 6th, 1865.
Oliver, William J., detached at Longstreet's headquarters 1862, rejoined the company in 1864 and surrendered at Appomattox.
Phillips, Michael, captured July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg, and died of pneu- monia at Point Lookout. Phillips, William R.
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Phillips, Heury O., wounded July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg, and captured. Peed, Samuel S., captured July 5th, 1863, in Pennsylvania. Pugh, Lindsay, detached 1861 to work in Navy Yard. Phillips, Charles T., promoted Sergeant Major 9th Regiment. Revell, George A., captured July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Revell, Randall, wounded July 3d, 1863, Gettysburg.
Robertson, William D., discharged 1861 for disability. Roane, Alonzo B.
Savage, T. A. Sherwood, O. B., discharged 1862, over age.
Sale, John E., wounded July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg. Stewart, James T. Smith, William F., discharged 1861 for disability. Tyson, Luther. Tompkins, Thomas G.
Thomas, William James, killed June 1st, 1862, at Seven Pines.
White, George A. Watts, George W. H.
Whitehurst, Marshall P.
Williams, Millard C., wounded July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg.
Wilkerson, George P.
Woodhouse, Thomas C.
Weaver, Joseph F., appointed carpenter in Nav.v.
Williams, Thomas H., transferred to Company K, 9th Virginia.
Williams, J. Herbert.
Whitfield, Lewis, killed August 30th, 1862, Second Manassas.
Virnelson, William B., detached 1862 to work in arsenal.
Virnelson, Joseph H., detached 1862 to work in Navy Yard and appointed engineer in the Navy. Killed and died-24.
CHAPTER X.
THE CRANEY ISLAND ARTILLERY, CO. 1, NINTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
This company was organized immediately after the Governor issued his call for volunteers in April, 1861, and the members came from Norfolk county, in the vicinity of Churchland, and from the upper portion of Nansemond county, the larger portion, however, being from Norfolk county. The officers of the com- pany under whom it was originally mustered into service were:
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