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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
unty. Lieutenants Gibson and Walker were promoted to be first and second lieutenants by vacancy, and John Y. Anderson was made third lieutenant. At the reorganization in 1862, after first year's service, John A. Gibson was made captain; James A. Strain, first lieutenant; James Archibald Lyle, second lieutenant, and James Lindsay, third lieutenant. The company was then doing service in Major William L. Jackson's battalion, composed of the following companies: Churchville Cavalry, from Augusta county; Charlotte Cavalry, from Charlotte county, and Rockbridge Second Dragoons, from Rockbridge county. The 14th Virginia Cavalry was organized in 1862, and these three companies were assigned to it, the Dragoons becoming Company H. Captain John A. Gibson was made Lieutenant-Colonel, and promotions were made in the Dragoons as follows: James A. Strain, Captain; James Lindsay, First Lieutenant; William M. Sterrett, Second Lieutenant; Z. J. Culton, Third Lieutenant, who died in Salem while t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.43 (search)
very heavy but none of us were killed. It seemed our guns got the range and fired over us. One morning while Captain Findley, of Virginia (now a preacher in Augusta county), J. E. Cobb, H. Coffry and myself were in our small tent just after Captain Findley had read a chapter in a Bible, which I now have and in which I placed allTarget Hill, Wayne county. B. D. Merchant, Fourth Cavalry, Manassas Junction. James H. Childs, Warrenton. S. T. Carson, Fifth Infantry, Steel's Tavern, Augusta county. Jesse Child, Forty-second Infantry, Richmond. George H. Killian, Fifth Infantry, Waynesborough. J. W. Gilkerson, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Mint Springs, Augusta county. M. E. Bowers, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Franklin, Pendleton county. W. L. Hunter, Forty-third Battalion (Cavalry), Waynesborough. W. L. Bernard,Thirty-seventh Battalion (Cavalry), Rocky Mount, Franklin county. T. S. Mitchell, Forty-second Infantry, Martinsville, Henry county. P. W. Dalton, Forty-second Infa