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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
r marches and battles after his connection with it ceased, he hopes to be able to add a brief sketch of it, based on such material as he can get from members who continued with it till the surrender at Appomattox. Members of the company are requested to supply any omissions, and to correct any errors which they may discern in the following pages, and to notify Sergeant David E. Moore, of Lexington, Va., who is chairman of the committee above referred to. C. D. F. Charlottesville, Va., December, 1895. Early in the spring of 1861, after the old volunteer companies of the State had been called into service by Governor Letcher, many of the yonng men of Lexington and the county of Rockbridge, in answer to the Governor's call for more troops, determined to organize another company. They selected John McCausland, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, as their captain, and were sworn into service on the 29th of April, 1861. About this time Captain McCausland received from the