Harriet Lane. 12th Georgia Infantry- Col. Edward Willis Purcell (Virginia) Artillery- Capt. 7th Louisiana Infantry- Col. Davidson B. Penn 57th Virginia Infantry- Col. John Bowie Magruder (mw/c), Fauquier (Virginia) Artillery- Capt. William H. Pryor, Company D (Southampton Greys) Capt. Letcher (Virginia) Artillery- Capt. Chief of Artillery: Col. Armistead L. Long George M. Patterson James F. Hart 23rd Virginia Infantry- Lt. Col. Simeon T. Walton 12th South Carolina Infantry- Col. John L. Miller Rations were plentiful throughout, consisting of coffee, flour, bacon, beef, sugar and sometimes rice and as such illness was kept to a marginal level. The following afternoon, about 4 P.M., the regiment again boarded the Steamer Coffee for the return trip home. Its members were from Portsmouth and Petersburg, and the counties of Nansemond, Dinwiddie, Surry, Isle of . 16th Georgia Infantry- Col. Goode Bryan Organized August 1856, the company employed dark blue coats with three rows of state buttons down the front with green velvet collars, cuffs epaulets. These twelve organizations, which including the 3rd Virginia companies numbered in total approximately eight hundred and fifty men, however they had in their possession no form of ammunition. After the flag ceremony, the Guard, Grays & Rifles paraded through the main streets of Portsmouth. To fill his vacancy 1st Lt. Thomas Pannill, Adjutant of Co. E was commissioned on the 9th thus completing the matter.[1]. 18th Georgia Infantry- Lieut. Three days later, on September 16, British and American troops collided in the no-man's-land at the base of the heights and fought a sharp skirmish. In the cold sleet and snow the 25 militia and military organizations in attendance were divided into battalions with the 390 men of the 3rd almost constituting one whole battalion itself this being designated the 2nd Battalion. Much to the relief of Colonel Pryor, he was finally able to procure a commissary officer in the form of Timothy Reeves. J. Lowrance, Lt. Col. George T. Gordon (w) 47th Alabama Infantry- Col. James W. Jackson, Lt. Col. J. M. Bulger (w/c), Maj. James M. Campbell Carrington 26th North Carolina Infantry- Col. Henry K. Burgwyn (k), Lt. Col. John Lane (w), Maj. John J. Jones (w), Capt. 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment. March began much like the end of the preceding month with rumors of active operation, yet little but idleness to occupy the regiments time. [1], In mid October, the regiment began work on winter quarters leaving Camp Cook for the more inland location of Camp Pemberton. William P. Carter James W. Wyatt Thomas A. Brander About sunrise the following morning, the regiment parted ways with the Portsmouth National Light Infantry Greys, Old Dominion Guard & Portsmouth Rifles reporting to the Gosport (Norfolk) Naval Yard for the purpose of salvaging munitions, ships & supplies abandoned when federal troops in a hasty retreat set the yard ablaze. Private Benjamin William Jones of Company I in another letter dated February 10 put it as follows: "matters seem shaping themselves for active operations, and the spring campaign is expected to, open early. "I found the military force of the city, none of which had been called into service to consist of a battalion of volunteers and a few detached companies in all numbering not a great deal over 300 men and the force of the town of Portsmouth to consist of a regiment of volunteers of about the same strength. Brides Cavalry received transfer to the 5th Virginia Cavalry. R. B. Davis John L. Massie Gen. Paul J. Semmes (mw), Col. Goode Bryan, 10th Georgia Infantry- Col. John B. Weems Change however was afoot and soon rumor became reality with the commencement of the Peninsula Campaign. Huger (Virginia) Artillery- Capt. Volume 5 is for Virginia. HISTORICAL NOTES: The 3rd Virginia was organized at Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1856 with volunteer companies attached to the 7th Regiment Virginia Militia. As the month commenced, Halifax County Sheriff James R. West began organizing a company of infantry for future service in the CSA. E. B. Brunson, Crenshaw's (Virginia) Battery- Capt. 61st Georgia Infantry- Col. John H. Lamar, Charlottesville (Virginia) Artillery- Capt. Newton Marion Rifles under Captain Johannis Watson. Speight B. 11th Mississippi Infantry- Col. Francis M. Green It was to be however a short lived reprieve as on April 4 with the drums of war beating a long roll the regiment was turned out to embark once more at Stone House Wharf . Charles W. Fry, 1st Maryland Infantry Battalion (2nd MD Infantry, CSA)- Lt. Col. James R. Herbert (w), Maj. William W. Goldsborough (w), Capt.
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