Headquarters L. O. Branch Camp, N. 515, U. C. V.,
Raleigh, N. C., February 20, 1901.
To the
Editor of the Dispatch:
The enclosed is a printed list of Company B, Twelfth Regiment, Virginia Infantry.
I have been trying for several years to secure a complete list of my old company.
Since I had the enclosed list printed I learn that I have left out two or three names, and with the hope of securing these, I respectfully ask the insertion of enclosed in the
Confederate column of your Sunday edition.
During
General Longstreet's raid upon
Suffolk, in 1863, a recruit was sent to the company—he was a character—and his name is forgotten.
The boys dubbed him ‘Jamaica Ginger.’
I would like to secure his name.
If any reader of the
Dispatch knows the name of any one who was a member of the company during the war, and which does not appear in this list, a great favor will be done if it be mailed to me on a postal card.
It is my intention to have the list reprinted, and I purpose mailing a copy to each member now living, or to his family, if the address can be had.
