The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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First regiment Virginia volunteers.

--We understand that it is in contemplation to throw the debits of this formerly fine regiment into the famous 7th, lately under command of Col. J. L Kemper. Owing to some cause, never yet fully explained, when the gallant 1st (for that it is gallant let the achievements of its members at Bull Run, Manassas, Williamsburg, and Barker's farm on Sunday last, stand in proof) left this city from the Central Fair Ground, more than a year since, it only carried away about 860 men, and did not contain the Grays, Company F, or Blues, Since then the regiment has been reduced to a mere skeleton, and it has been understood for some time past that two of the companies which left the city with it have been disbanded. At the battle of Williamsburg its Colonel (Williams) was seriously wounded, and had to be abandoned to the ‘"tender mercies"’ of the enemy. On that occasion its Major was also wounded. In the fight out Sunday the regiment, numbering, perhaps, 100 men, was led into action by Lieut-Col Skinner, and getting into a position in front of a battery where they could not return the enemy's fire, forty-six of them were knocked down and disabled, and many killed. Such was the confusion that many of the men killed, within three miles of where they first saw the light, were buried where they fell.