Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bachman” in chapter 24, page 672 of Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina:
... it as a private in the summer of 1861.
A few months after reaching Virginia, in compliance with a promise made by General Hampton, this company was converted into artillery and was thence known as Bachman 's battery, Hampton's legion.
This was perhaps the only company in the entire army in which there were no promotions, the captain persistently refusing all promotions on account of
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