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‘F’ Company Association.
Major Charles R. Skinker,
President, commanding. At the head of this command was borne by
Color-sergeant John H. Cumbia, of the Twenty-first Virginia Infantry (in which ‘F’ company served throughout the war), the ante-bellum flag of ‘F’ company volunteers, and used by them in the quelling of the
John Brown insurrection in 1859.
It is of blue silk, fringed with bullion, and inscribed Company F, First Regiment Virginia Volunteers.
The following members of the Association were in line:
Maxwell T. Clarke,
James N. Boyd,
R. A. Brock,
R. H. Gilliam,
W. Leigh Burton,
Tazewell Ellett,
John W. Powell,
James W. Archer,
George A. Haynes,
Philip A. Wellford,
William S. Archer,
J. H. Ellerson,
Louis Zimmer and
Henry N. Bullington, from New York,
Thomas Ritchie Green,
Clay Drewry,
J. F. Meredith,
Walter J. Blunt,
Daniel D. Talley,
Archer Anderson,
Thomas A. Brander,
R. D. Adam,
W. C. Barker,
E. G. Tompkins,
B. B. Van Buren,
Joseph N. Willis,
James E. Tyler,
John Tyler,
R. Emmet Tyler,
W. B. Marks,
Lewis D. Crenshaw,
George D. Wise,
E. B. Meade,
A. Randolph Tatum,
George W. Peterkin,
W. S. Jinkins,
George R. Pace,
Shirley King,
A. J. Singleton,
John H. Worsham, Mann Page.
Other veterans joined with the Association in the march.
Major Skinker, who lost a leg in the service and marched on crutches, commanded much attention, and the organization was frequently cheered by citizens and soldiery on the march—several commands presenting arms as the Association passed.
