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at dark we bivouaced. Johnston's Division took the rear the next morning, with the 2nd Regiment as rear guard. All day we marched, but saw no signs of the enemy. We were almost starved. But for the hams taken during the battle, Co. "I" would have had nothing. This we ate raw. We stopped for awhile near a mill. Some of the men started the mill to running and ground some wheat that they found, letting the bran and flour all run together. This we mixed and baked on the mould board of a plow found lying near by. It was about the sweetest bread we ever ate. Late on this day we reached Antietam Creek and crossed on a bridge. Just beyond were our trains and plenty to eat. Each man was looking forward to a good meal, when an order came to Lieutenant Marshall to take sixteen men and go back to guard the bridge. We were mad, but back we had to go. Soldiers are ex- cusable sometimes for taking something to eat, and at this place we availed ourselves of the priviledge and killed a fine pig running around threatening to bite us. We got some corn meal from a mill nearby and proceeded to cook enough of the pig and meal to satisfy us for our long fast. When everything was about ready to be served, pop, pop, pop, from across the creek, and the cavalry were back upon us, the Yankees following them. We deployed and advanced and drove them back, but when we returned, all of our pig and meal were gone. Some troops stopping there had gobbled everything. Such is the life of the soldier.
CHAPTER XXI.
O N the morrow we took position between Hagers- town and the Potomac, and built breastworks, for we had to wait until the river fell before we could ford it. Part of Co. "I", under Sergeant Gold, were placed on picket in the old fair grounds near the pike. What an awful dark rainy night that was. At midnight they were withdrawn, and relieved by cavalry. Two men, Nimrod Hart and Ed Hall, were left, as in the dark- ness they could not be found, and as everything was done in a whisper, they could not be called. We thought we would never see them again, but just as we were stepping into the river to ford it, they came up, having had a very narrow escape from capture. When we were in the Val- ley again, General Walker said he wanted every man in the 2nd Regiment to get home if possible, but as passes could not be gotten from the higher Generals, we had to take our chances of getting by the pickets. So Co. "I" was very small for some days, but by the time we crossed the mountains at Milam's Gap, most of the boys had re- turned to duty, having seen their loved ones for a fleeting moment. We went into camp near Orange Court House, and just as we got fixed up comfortably, we were moved around Meade towards Manassas, trying to play the game we played on Pope, but it did not work and we were marched back to where we started. Then Meade tried his hand at advancing, and at Mine Run our division sud- denly found itself very close to the enemy. The 2nd
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Regiment was thrown forward as skirmishers and got into one of the hottest fights of the war. Here Co. "I" lost in a short time fourteen men out of twenty-two. We sometimes called it the "Battle of the Georges". Geo. Pat- terson, Geo. Riggle and Geo. Doll were killed and Geo. Wheeler was badly wounded and died shortly after reach- ing the hospital. Ben. Thompson, Nat Sowers, and others were wounded.
After this battle the army went into winter quarters. Our houses were small log huts, capable of holding three or four men, and were quite comfortable. Chimneys built of sticks of wood and plastered on the inside, answer- ed well. The roofs of clapboards or pieces of tents, a bed of straw or pine shats on pieces of split wood, or small poles, made us feel quite luxurious. Our rations this winter showed that provisions were getting scarcer and harder to get. Corn meal and 1/4 of a pound of bacon, with sometimes a little rice or beans, made little enough for men living in the open all the time. But no grumb- ling was heard, no question as to pay was ever raised. How different from the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Some of them were always clamoring for their pay and made Washington's life miserable. But General Lee never had that to vex his soul. The army of Northern Virginia took what was given to them, and toiled and fought on without murmuring. The world will never see their like again. This winter our brigade was sent every fourth week some miles away down the Rapidan River to picket. Some weeks it rained continuously. Our only shelter was made of oil cloths and blankets, making sheds very much like the hog shelters often seen on farms. Biglog fires in front of them kept us warm enough, but life during picket week was miserable on the whole. Sometimes it was varied by a sudden crossing of the river by the enemy
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on a reconnoissance. Then the long roll would ring out and everyone would seize his gun and make for the breast- works. After a few hours the Yankees would go back and all would be quiet again. The Stonewall Brigade and Hay's Louisiana Brigade had their winter quarters near each other, and Doles' and Battle's Alabama Brigades not far off. One day, just after a heavy fall of snow, General Doles challenged General Walker to a snowball battle. Doles' and Battle's Brigades were formed in line on one hill, where they made piles of balls and stood wait- ing the attack of General Walker with his own and the Louisiana Brigade. General Walker determined to try some of Jackson's tactics on them. He drew his brigade up facing the Alabamians, but sent the other brigade around through the woods, so that they should come in the rear of the Alabamians. His men were told to pre- pare as many balls as they could carry, and at a signal on the drum to advance to the attack, but when they got pretty close, at another roll of the drum, they were to turn and fall back, which would draw Doles' men away from their piles of balls in pursuit of their fleeing enemy. Then another roll of the drum and the Louisianians were to rush out behind, capture their balls, and our brigade was to turn and charge them in front. The scheme worked fine- ly. We advanced and then fled with them after us. At the signal the Louisianians appeared, we turned and drove them pellmell from the field, chasing them through their own camp. General Doles was knocked from his horse, but not hurt. The game, though rough, was much better than the real thing with minie balls, and was greatly en- joyed. The monotony of camp life was broken by such things.
Late in the winter Lieut. Chas. Marshall, of Co. "I", was sent to Clarke to hunt up some absentees, taking
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with him Kirk Glover, Julian Morales, Eph. Furr and Tom Gold. At Waynesboro they were joined by a small de- tachment of the 12th Georgia Regiment. They marched down the Page Valley through Luray and Front Royal, and down the eastern bank of the Shenandoah to Berry's Ferry. After passing Front Royal a few miles, they saw a man running away from a house towards the mountain. The Georgians immediately opened fire on him, and for a few minutes the dust flew around his heels, until Lieu- tenant Marshall interfered and stopped them. The fugi- tive turned out to be Captain Marshall, of our Cavalry, who was at his home and took us to be Yankees and so fled. He had a narrow escape. The Georgians thought any man running away from them must be a Yankee, and so they went for him. Our trip resulted in nothing more than to give our men from Clarke an opportunity to get to their homes for a few hours, slipping across the river one night, and returning the next. Julian Morales met a lot of Yankee cavalry, and only escaped by lying be- hind a fence while they rode by on the other side. This short, hard-earned pleasure was much enjoyed, although we had to march nearly two hundred miles to obtain it. We were soon back in camp, much envied by the poor fellows who had not gone.
On the fourth of May, 1864, we broke up our winter quarters, and set out on the march to meet General Grant and his vast army, who had crossed the river and were pre- paring to get between General Lee and Richmond. We passed the old battlefield at Mine Run, and bivouaced near the Wilderness. On the morning of the 5th, after some moving back and forth through the thick woods, we met the enemy and all day long we were engaged until the brigade was almost out of ammunition, but we held our ground, and just before night the firing ceased and we
CHAS. A. MARSHALL
FIRST LIEUTENANT, "CLARKE RIFLES" (COMPANY I, SECOND VIRGINIA INFANTRY)
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built breastworks. During the day Seargt. Willingham was taken prisoner, and Geo. Writt was wounded. There were no other casualties. The 6th and 7th we laid in our breastworks, and were not engaged, except our skirmishers in our front. On the 8th we moved towards Spotsylvania C. H. to meet Grant there-a hot and toilsome march. We were urged by our General, in an order read to us on the march, "To stand to our duty, that the enemy was pressing to get ahead of us, but had been met and repulsed by Anderson's Division." We were very much refreshed by meeting the Clarke Cavalry, who had just come out of the fight. To meet old friends and schoolmates, seen but rarely in those stirring times, gave us fresh courage to press on with vigor and inspired us with zeal, and hope. A moment we saw them, shook their hands, and parted for fates we knew not of. Just before night we went into line of battle, and immediately were ordered to build breast- works. A rail fence nearby gave us the foundation, and we dug dirt with whatever we could, with our bayonets and one pick, and threw it up as best we could, and in a short time we had it breast high and thick enough to with- stand bullets, if not cannon ball. Soon General Ewell rode along and directed us to place a log on top, with space to fire under, and to cut brush and trees in front to hinder the enemy as much as possible. We worked at this by relays, all night, and by morning we were strongly fortified. On the evening of the 10th of May, the enemy broke through our lines just to our left, but no one of our Company was hurt. On the morning of the 12th about dawn, they charged our lines to our right and rear, and soon in our front, in such overwhelming numbers, that they broke through. Although our brigade and the others fought well and bravely, 3,500 were cut off and captured including Gen. Edward Johnston, commanding the Di-
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vision. From Co. "I" Kirk Glover, Chas. Ashby and Tom Gold, were captured, Lieut. Chas A. Marshall was wounded. All day long the battle raged in one incessant roar of musketry and artillery. There never seemed one moment of intermission, until night ended it, both sides worn out with the great effort. The Confederates held their lines, but at great loss of life-lives more precious to us than to the enemy, because we could not refill our ranks. The 12th of May, 1864, was a day never to be forgotten. It left the Stonewall Brigade and the 2nd Regiment with ranks so depleted, that from that time on they could not fill the posts assigned to them with the spirit and dash of the past, but could only hang on with grim determination to do their duty to the end. Captain O'Bannon was now the only Commissioned officer with the Company. Lieutenant Marshall, being disabled by his wound for a time, got permission to raise a company of partisan cavalry in Clarke, but when it met to organize at White Post, some months after this time, they were sur- prised and scattered and he taken prisoner. He was among the Confederate officers sent to Charleston Har- bor to be placed under the fires of our own batteries in order to keep them from firing at the batteries of the enemy. He survived it all, and after the war settled in California, where he died. He was a most gallant and efficient of- ficer, and much beloved by the men and honored by his brother officers. In an engagement soon after the 12th of May, Julian Morales and Jno. W. Grubbs were cap- tured and sent to Point Lookout. They, with others of the company, who were prisoners there, were later sent to Elmira, N. Y., and kept there, most of them, until the close of the war. Those were awful days; battle succeed- ing battle in quick succession-North Anna, Cold Har- bor, and then into the lines at Petersburg. Sergt. Geo.
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Alexander was wounded at Cold Harbor, and upon going home was captured and joined his comrades in the prison. The casualties of different kinds, killed, wounded and missing, reduced the Company so much in numbers that Captain O'Bannon was placed on the staff of the General commanding the brigade, and the few remaining men were placed in Co. "C", under the gallant Capt. Robt. Ran- dolph. With him they made the Lynchburg campaign after the house-burning General Hunter. Then under General Early they made the campaign to Washington and return, took part in the Cool Spring battle in Clarke, and the battle of the Opequon, and of Cedar Creek, where Captain Randolph was killed, gallantly leading the rem- nants of the two companies. At Petersburg under Gor- don they suffered untold hardships in the trenches, took part in the endless fighting on the lines, and finally under Lieut. Philip Nelson, they made the sad retreat from Peters- burg, fighting, starving, suffering in body and mind un- til the 9th of April, 1865, the few left present laid down their arms, so nobly borne for four long years, and return- ed to their homes.
But how few of Co. "I" to return. Four were present at the surrender, a few had given out on the retreat, and were not there, only J. R. Shipe, "Doc", as we all called him, Edward Rutter, Osborne Jones and R. H. Depreist, a man from Augusta County, who had been put into the Company in 1862 and had made a good and faithful sol- dier. Of these "Doc" Shipe is the only one living, hon- ored by all for his faithfulness in that time of trial, and for his honor and integrity as a man. Osborne Jones, a good and true soldier, died years ago, leaving a family to mourn a father who had manfully done his duty. The survivors of the Company after the war became scattered and now in the County of Clarke there are very few liv-
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ing, the remnant of as gallant a band as entered the Con- federate army so many years ago. The places which know them will soon know them no more. May the mem- ory of their patriotism and faithfulness to duty be kept ever green in the hearts of the people of the County. In doing their duty they did honor to the county of their birth, and deserve to be held in honor by coming genera- tions As this company was a part of the Stonewall Bri- gade the following beautiful poem is given as appropriate to them:
THE STONEWALL BRIGADE
They come again, who in immortal story, Past failure, death and tears, Bore their unfading banner to its glory Through the laborious years.
The frost is in their veins; the feet are laggard, That sped to meet the foe; Yet shines on every face, however haggard, The light of long ago.
For each, the peaceful years have vanished, seeing His comrades marching there;
Once more they live and move and have their being In a diviner air.
And shaking off the pulseless, feeble fashion Of this degenerate day,
They thrill again with the heroic passion, Of Stonewall Jackson's way.
What boots it, though the fight was lost? They fought it As soldiers should: That youth Passed with it, and was lost too? Lo! these thought it Well spent, since for the Truth.
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They march with ghosts of comrades, dead and gory- Down the autumnal years
Still bearing that rent banner, starred with glory, Past failure, death and tears.
Lost Cause! Lost Youth! Nay, out of War's red sowing Hath sprung the harvest grain:
Their Cause is fame's; and the old bugles, blowing, Bring back their youth again.
-Armistead C. Gordon.
CHAPTER XXII.
T HE following is the roll of the Clarke Rifles, Co. "I", 2nd Virginia Vol. Infantry.
We regret that we cannot give the record of each man in full, but there being no written record available, we have had to depend on memory, and there are so few of the Company now living and their memories are so im- paired by age and the long lapse of time, that individual records cannot be given, and even some of these that we give may not be altogether right; but with the help of Jno. W. Grubbs, J. R. Shipe and M. L. Barr we have done the best we could. There will be some names with no record given. That will not mean that they may not have been wounded or a prisoner, or possibly killed, but the absence of each one of us who have tried to make the record for sometime in prison has made it impossible for us to know the fate of all. It is very much to be regretted that we did not undertake this work ten years ago, when more memories would have been available, but it is vain to regret. We have done the best possible under the cir- cumstances. There were some men from Augusta County put into the Company. They will be indicated.
NAMES
1st Capt. Strother H. Bowen. Resigned August, 1862, to manufacture gun carriages for the Confederacy.
2nd Capt. S. J. C. Moore. Promoted from 1st Lieut. Wounded at 2nd Manassas. Made Adjutant Gen.
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2nd Brigade. Wounded at Wilderness. Made Ad- jutant Gen. 2nd Corps under Gen. Early. Rank Lieut. Col.
2nd Lieut. H. P. Deahl. Spring 1862 joined Clarke Cav- alry.
3rd. Lieut. Thomas Byrd. Resigned 1861. Physical disability.
3rd Lieut. Wm. T. Milton. Promoted from 1st Sergt. Joined Clarke Cavalry 1862.
Lieut. J. H. O'Bannan. Promoted to Captain Dec. 1862. Lieut. Chas. A. Marshall. Promoted from 1st Sergt. to 1st Lieut. Wounded at Spotsylvania, taken prisoner and confined with the 600 in Charleston Harbor.
Lieut. Algernon S. Allen, Jr. Promoted to 2nd Lieut., wounded at Chancellorsville, died in Richmond, 1863. Lieut. Jno. R. Nunn. Promoted from 1st Sergt. 1863, wounded at Seven Days fight, Richmond and Chan- cellorsville, disabled and made Provost Marshal of Harrisonburg.
2nd Sergt. Jas. W. Willingham. Promoted to 1st Sergt., taken prisoner May 5th, 1864, Wilderness.
Sergt. Decatur J. Shepherd. Wounded Kernstown 1862 and Cedar Run 1862, detached service.
Sergt. Ben. F. Thompson. Wounded Mine Run Nov. 1863, prisoner at Pt. Lookout and Elmira, N. Y. Sergt. Martin L. Barr. Wounded Mine Run, Nov. 1863. Sergt. W. C. Shepherd. Killed, Kernstown, Mar. 23rd, 1862.
Sergt. Justin E. Sowers. Joined Cavalry, April 1862. Sergt. N. O. Sowers. Prisoner, Kernstown 1862, wounded Mine Run, Nov. 1863, disabled.
Jas. H. Wilson.
Geo. W. Alexander. Wounded, Cold Harbor. Prisoner. Geo. Towberman. Augusta man.
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Ben. F. Stuart. Augusta man.
2nd Sergt. Thos. D. Gold. Prisoner, Kernstown, Mar. 25th, 1862. Wounded, 2nd Manassas. Prisoner, Spotsylvania, May 12th, 1864.
Jno. P. Carrigan. Musician, deserted to the enemy.
Jno. Kelley. Musician, deserted to the enemy.
Jno. A. Atwell.
Chas. Ashby. Detached service. Prisoner, Spotsylva- nia May 12th, 1864.
Wm. S. Allen.
J. R. Athey.
W. Athey.
Jas. E. Bonham. Prisoner, Kernstown, 1862. Prisoner 1864. 12th Va. Cavalry.
Sebastian E. Bonham. Promoted to 1st Sergt. 1863. Killed, Chancellorsville, 1863.
Jas. F. Broy. Killed, Wilderness, May 5th, 1864.
Addison Broy. Died, Stanardsville, 1862.
Geo. N. Barnett. Joined Brooks battery May 1862. Wounded, Chancellorsville, died.
W. Brabham.
John T. Barr. Wounded, Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862, died. David Barr. Prisoner, died old Capitol Prison, Washing- ton, D. C. Jas. F. Billmyer.
Jas. Beavers. Augusta.
Borden. Augusta.
Jos. M. Brown. Augusta.
Chas. D. Castleman. Wounded, 2nd Manassas, died. Samuel A. Campbell.
Wm. Carroll.
Rezin Carroll. Wounded, Cedar Run, disabled.,
Jno. W. Carpenter. Joined Cavalry.
Benj. W. Crim. Wounded, detached service.
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Jno. H. Craig. Augusta. Childress.
Cleveland. Augusta. Craun.
Croft. Augusta.
John J. Dobbins. Killed, Winchester, 1862.
Peter T. Duke. Joined Cavalry.
John Davis. Killed, 2nd Manassas, 1862.
Geo. Doll. Augusta. Killed, Mine Run.
Desper. Augusta. Robert H. Depreist. Augusta. Present Appomattox.
Demaster. Augusta.
Geo. Daugherty. Killed, 2nd Manassas.
Jas. R. Elleyette. Detached service.
J. Endernon. Augusta.
W. D. Engleton. Augusta.
Jno. Fiddler. Detached and honorably discharged.
James Fiddler. Died in prison, Pt. Lookout.
Ephriam Furr.
Geo. Furr. Joined Cavalry 11th Reg.
Edward T. Farral. Wounded, Wilderness.
Jas. W. Fuller. Cavalry.
Jas. H. Gill. Wounded, 2nd Manassas, died.
Thornton K. Glover. Wounded, Chancellorsville, prisoner, Spotsylvania, 1864. Thos. W. Guard.
Thos. Goheen. Prisoner 1864.
Garber. Augusta.
Cyrus Grow. Killed. Augusta man.
Jno. W. Grubbs. Wounded Chancellorsville and Spotsyl- vania. Prisoner, Cold Harbor.
Chas. Wesley Grubbs. Prisoner, Spotsylvania 1864.
Edward Hall. Killed, Wilderness.
N. R. K. Hart. Prisoner.
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Norman D. V. Howard. Detached service.
W. E. Hannum. Prisoner.
Robert Hunter.
Jas. P. Hough.
Jno. M. Harwood.
Geo. W. Joy. Detached.
Andrew J. Joy. Prisoner.
Francis Johnston. Prisoner.
Osborne Jones. One of four at surrender at Appomattox.
J. Campbell Janney. Joined Mosby, 1864.
Jordon. Augusta.
Geo. W. Kelly. Wounded, 1st Manassas and Port Re- public.
H. H. Kindig. Augusta. Put in substitute, who was killed.
J. E. Kindig. Killed. Augusta.
Thos. B. Lanham.
Philip B. Lucius. Cavalry.
Geo. W. Levi. Cavalry.
Carter M. Louthan. Discharged for disability. Joined Artillery, Brooks Battery.
Longford. Augusta.
David H. McGuire, Jr. Joined Clarke Cavalry.
Alfred C. Marshall. Discharged, disability. Joined Cav- alry.
Moses B. Murphey. Joined Cavalry.
Benj. A. May. Wounded, 1st Manassas.
Jesse Mercer.
Julian Morales. Prisoner, Spotsylvania. Evan T. Myers.
David Mercer. Died in hospital.
W. A. Nicewarner.
Geo. M. D. O'Bannon. Joined Mosby, 1864. Nathaniel Pine.
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Thos. Pyle. Thos. Pratt.
Willis Pritchard.
Jno. M. Pope. Wounded, Mine Run.
Washington Pope. Died in hospital.
Geo. Patterson. Killed, Mine Run.
Geo. Riggle. Killed, Mine Run.
Edwin M. Rutter. Wounded, Wilderness. One of four at Appomattox.
Jno. W. Riggle.
Richard P. Roy. Badly wounded, Kernstown, and taken
prisoner.
Benj. R. Ricard. Taken prisoner, Petersburg, April, 1865. Jno. J. Riely. Deserted to enemy.
Chas. B. Riely. Prisoner 1862. Killed, 2nd Manassas. Jno. J. Rippon.
Jno. H. Shewbridge. Prisoner, 1862. On detached ser- vice.
Simon P. Stickles. Wounded, Port Republic, disabled. Jno. R. Shipe. Wounded, Petersburg, and prisoner. One of four at Appomattox.
Franklyn R. Shepherd. Prisoner, 1864.
Stout. Augusta.
Edward C. Smith. Discharged from old age.
Jas. F. Trayhorne. Became captain of Cavalry Company in White's Battalion.
Albert S. Thompson.
Thos. T. Thatcher.
James Talley. Died.
Baker Tapscott. Prisoner.
Jas. W. Whittington. Cavalry. Robert N. Wilson.
Geo. Writt. Wounded at Wilderness, May 5th, 1864. Jeremiah Wilson.
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Walker B. Wilson.
Geo. W. Willingham. Detached service.
John P. Willingham. Killed 23rd March, 1862 at Kerns- town. Benj. F. Wilson.
Abraham Wilson.
Thos. Wyndham. Discharged, over age.
Geo. Wheeler. Wounded, Mine Run. Died, Richmond. William Wilson.
WM. N. NELSON
CAPTAIN, "NELSON RIFLES" (COMPANY C. SECOND VIRGINIA INFANTRY!
CHAPTER XXIII
COMPANY "c". NELSON RIFLES
T HE excitement following the John Brown affair stirred up the people of Clarke, as well as the whole of Virginia, men everywhere felt that a crisis was upon them. That they must prepare to meet what seemed inevitable, an appeal to arms. The little hamlet of Millwood and the community surrounding and its people of intelligence and fervent patriotism responded to the cry of the hour and organized a Military Company. Choosing for its Captain, one who had in the Mexican war borne himself gallantly. Wm. N. Nelson was made Captain. Dr. Wm. Hay 1st Lieut., Robert C. Randolph 2nd., Jas. Ryan 3rd., John Kelly 1st Sergeant, David Keeler 2nd, W. T. Whorton 3rd.
When the call to arms was sounded on the 17th of April, 1861, Captain Nelson proceeded with his Company to Charlestown and thence to Halltown, where the 2nd Va. Infantry had assembled under Col. J. W. Allen. Captain Nelson, as the senior officer from Clarke, took command of the two Companies from the County. He being under Colonel Allen. The march to Harper's Ferry, the cap- ture of what was left by the flames, of the contents of the arsenal and armory, was easily accomplished. For a few days the two Clarke Companies were in a Battalion under Captain Nelson. They were then thrown into what was called for a short time, the 1st Virginia Infantry, under Colonel Allen, Lieut. Col. Lackland of Jefferson and Major
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Frank Jones of Frederick County. The Nelson Rifles as the Millwood Company was called, now became Co. "C". 1st Va. Inf. But in a short time the number of the regi- ment was changed to the 2nd Va., and thus it went through the war.
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