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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
First Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, and continued under Bonham, Kershaw, Conner, and Kennedy, a brigade throughout the war. A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, who accompanied the first South Carolina Volunteers, writing on the 26th April, thus describes the appearance of Richmond on the arrival of this regiment: We reached Richmond on an auspicious day. The ordinance by which Virginia became a member of the Southern Confederacy had been adopted by the Convention in secret shad with him the Lexington cadets, under Major Colston, to assist in drilling the raw troops. The South Carolina brigade, under General Bonham, was encamped near the reservoir. There were volunteers from Georgia also, arriving as early as the 26th April, but I have not been able to ascertain, though I have made considerable enquiry, more particularly in regard to them except that two of the companies were from Macon, the Macon Volunteers and Floyd Rifles. On the 26th, Major-General Joseph E