uarters Third Alabama infantry, Near Hagerstown, Md., July 9th, 1863. S. M. Moore, A. A. A. General:
Lieutenant,—In obedience to orders, I herewith submit a report of the action of this regiment from the time it left camp at Santee, Caroline county, Virginia, up to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, at which point Colonel Battle joined the regiment and assumed command.
I received orders on the morning 4th June to put the regiment in motion, and marched with the brigade to Culpeper Courthouse, reacange Courthouse, August 3d, 1863. To Colonel E. P. Alexander:
Colonel,—In accordance with a circular from your headquarters, issued this morning, I make the following report:
On or about the 3d day of June last, I left Milford Station, Caroline county, with my battery, in company with the other batteries of your battalion.
We proceeded to Culpeper Courthouse, near which place we went into camp on the 6th of June.
We remained here until the 15th recruiting our horses, repairing our gun c
uction for cavalry (at Ashland, Hanover county), where, after being drilled for several weeks by Colonels Field and Lomax, it was ordered to northwestern Virginia, where it spent the winter of 1861-‘62.
In the latter part of the winter of 1862, it was ordered to Fredericksburg, where we were regularly drilled until the campaign opened in the spring, when the Ninth Regiment Virginia Cavalry was organized with the following ten companies:
Company A, Stafford county, Va.; Company B, Caroline county, Va.; Company C, Westmoreland county, Va.; Company D, Lancaster county, Va.; Company E, Spotsylvania county, Va.; Company F, Essex county, Va.; Company G, Lunenburg county, Va.; Company H, Lee Rangers, Virginia and other States and counties; Company I, King George county, Va.; Company K, Richmond county, Va.
The following is the roll of Company H, Ninth Virginia Cavalry (Lee Rangers), from June, 1861, to April, 1865:
Captains—William H. F. Lee, dead, B. B. Douglas, dead, Thomas W. Ha
of Virginia State penitentiary; died since the war; John Ware, at Newport News.
First Lieutenants—Cecil Baker, killed in battle; James Boulware, farming in Caroline, Va.
Second Lieutenants—Charles Wright, farming in Caroline, Va.; E. C. Moncure, judge of Caroline County Court.
Sergeants and Corporals—T. G. Moncure, S. T. Caroline, Va.; E. C. Moncure, judge of Caroline County Court.
Sergeants and Corporals—T. G. Moncure, S. T. Chandler, 1). J. Waller, A. B. Rollins, W. H. Toombs, John W. Broaddus, J. E. Puller, M. E. Shaddock, Thos. Faust, J. D. Gravatt, J. W. Kidd.
Privates—Ernest A. Ambold, John J. Andrews, Charles H. Andrews, W. S. Andrews, Alfred A. Anderson, A. Boutwell, James A. Broaddus, S. B. Broaddus, H. O. Broaddus, Woodford Broaddus, H. N. Caroline County Court.
Sergeants and Corporals—T. G. Moncure, S. T. Chandler, 1). J. Waller, A. B. Rollins, W. H. Toombs, John W. Broaddus, J. E. Puller, M. E. Shaddock, Thos. Faust, J. D. Gravatt, J. W. Kidd.
Privates—Ernest A. Ambold, John J. Andrews, Charles H. Andrews, W. S. Andrews, Alfred A. Anderson, A. Boutwell, James A. Broaddus, S. B. Broaddus, H. O. Broaddus, Woodford Broaddus, H. N. Broaddus, A. T. Broaddus, Eugene Broaddus, killed on courier duty, R. H. W. Buckner, killed at Brandy Station, R. L. Books, Thomas Burke, J. G. Burruss, A. Burruss, John Battaile, W. J. Boulware, Muscoe Boulware, J. H. Branham, J. W. Burke, M. Campbell, F. D. Campbell, wounded, C. R. D. Campbell, W. S. Chandler, W. T. Chandl