Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-14
WILLIAM Z. DAVIS.

years eight months and twenty-five DAYS,
and was DISCHARGED from service October,
1864, by reason of being under age.
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM T. DAVIS,
900 north Seventeenth, city.
hereby certify that William E. Davis !
was mustered into the service of the Con- |
federste Government for three years or the
war March 2, 1862. GEORGE A. MINOR.
VOLUNTEERED IN his FOURTEENTH YEAR
To ne Editor Of he Dispatch:
Seeing that you ara publishing the record |
Of some Of the BOYS who volunteered young
IN the Confederate States service [ think
can give you the name of the youngest
soldier that surrendered with General
Lee at Appomattox Courthouse. | allude
70 Walter N Jones. now of Petersburg,
Va, who surrendered at AppomattoX when
fourteen years old. This boy volunteered
and bore d musket in the lines before
Petersburg in the battle of June 16, 1864,
when Butler moved as the advance of
Grant on the limos of Petersburg. The
lines that day were very thlnly manned by
old men and bows and what few troops
were then available within call of Peters
burg. These men and boys stood brayely
TO their posts against overwhelming num-
bers. and for the second time within
week Con the 9th of June they checked
kautz) prevented the capture of Peters
burg. Young Jones was then only thirteen
years.and ten months old.
The following spring, the latter part of
March, 1865, he was cut off from home by
the tederals, and having a pony in his pos
session he offered his services TO an officer
of the Confederate States army-MalOr
Tennlll, Of the commlssary department,
who put young Jones in charge of some OF
the wagons under his charge. These
wagons were captured at the battle OF
Sailors Creek, and with them JOnes's sad
dle-bags, which you will remember were
so handsomely returned TO him by the
captor, Captain Charles +. Bowers OF New
ark, n. j.. through Lincoln Post, q. A. H.,
on their visit 10 our city some years ago.
Young Jones was. perhaps, the last Con-
federate TO leave Farmvlle, Va, on the re-
treat He had been ordered to wait at
Farmyille until Major Tennlll could send
him some wagons TO load with a conside-
rable quantity Of provisions stored at
Farmyille. He waited several hours with
out ever seeing the wagons, until the Fede-
rails began shooting in the town. lie then
hastily mounted and crossed the county
road bridge across the Appomattox Just as
the COnfederates set fire TO It.
He was again at that point OF the wagon
train that General Gregg attacked Just be-
fore our army reached AppOmattox, and
Joined in the charge with the COnfedorates
that resulted in the repulse of the Federals
and capture of General Gregg, their COM
mander.
At Appomattox Courthouse young Jones,
in his boyish enthusiasm, not thinking the
war was over. determined to get out with
out parole. This was comparatively easy,
a. his name was not on any of the rolls. he
being only n volunteer Of short standing
in a very stormy period. He was thus. I'M
known to the Federals. and when few
DAYS later he left Appomattox with some
Of his friends, being q small boy compare
lively. he found no great difficulty in pass
ing the Federal guards. L. Is.
THE SECOND VA. AND IT'S BOY LIEUTENANTs.
To he Editor Of he DisDd'ch:
While others are writing about the boys
who wore the gray and their ages, nothing
has been said about Company g of the
old Second Virginia infantry The records
Of the old company can show more boy
heutenauts than those of any other com
mand in tho service. The following list
will show this-viz:
Robert =. p Burwell, lieutenant Of horse
artillery before he was nineteen. He en-
listed before no was eighteen and died OF
a wound received at Fleetwood.
George II. Burwell enlisted at fourteen
and promoted lieutenant OF the Irish bat
talon; killed in Mexico in MaXimilian's
army, with the rank Of captain. after the
surrender of the Confederate forces.
Il. II. b. Randolph; enlisted at eighteen
and promoted lieutenant of ordnance; now
lives at Boyco, Clark county, and Is a great
sufferer from wounds received.
John NJ Jolhfie; enlisted at eighteen
served faithfully; was wounded at Chan
cellorsyille. and promoted lieutenant; now
lives at Boyce.
Nat. Burwell, IT.; enlisted at nineteen;
was sergeant-mAjor Of the regiment killed
at Second Manassas.
n. b. Cooke: enlisted at sixteen; was
first Lieutenant of artillery at seventeen;
now resides at Taylorsville. Hanover
county, the brave and true gentleman, but
he has pet arm from wound received
while doing his duty. Long may he live,
for he is credit to any county that may
claim him.
Then there was true and faithful Mord
Lewis. first sergeant of the company,
that a screaming shell could not move
from doing his duty. He enlisted when
he was eighteen, and escaped being wound
ed, but with about six holes IN ms clothes
and one to raise the skin. He now lives IN
Clarksburg, w. Va, the owner OF an oil
well.
Clarke county is proud of her soldiers
Company C. (the Nelson Guards, named
after the first captain, w. N. Nelson, who
fell wounded (shot through the left breast
at First Manassas, and IS still suffering
from the wound.
A few words about tho field officers and
am done. The regiment went IN service
April IS, 1861, in command OF Colonel
James w. Allen; F. b. Laoklarid, heuten-
ant colonel. Colonel Lacklarid died about
August 4, 1861, from the conclusion of a
shell July 2lst. Then CAPTAIN l.. Bolts was
promoted lieutenant colonel and +. b.
Jones major. Colonel Allen was promoted
brigadier general and killed at the battle
of Gaines's Mill. Major Jones, lieutenant
colonel. was killed at the same battle.
Colonel l.. Bolts was killed at Second Ma
nassas. Captain j. q. A. Nadenbou5h was
promoted colonel and Captain Colston,
lieutenant colonel. Nadenboush was
wounded and retired and Colonel Colston
was killed at Mine hun. Captain w. W.
Randolph, of Company @, was promoted
lieutenant colonel May 3, 1864, and killed
at the Wilderness May 5, 1864.
Colonel Nsdenboush IS the only one OF
the old field officers now living. lie re-
sides in Martinsburg, W. Va.
| don't think any regiment IN the service
can show a better record than the old
Second.
You have one of its gallant captains in
your clty-the State Superintendent OF
Public Printing, Captain James IL. O,Ban-
non. Respectfully yours, AAA-
HESRIco COUNTY, Va, May q, 1891.
ENLISTED IN HIS FIFTEENTH YEAR.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA, May %, 1891.
| To the Editor oftte Dispatch:
At the age Of fourteen wears and nine
months | enlisted in the Morris Artillery,
under the command of Captain Coleman,
August, 1861, in Hanover county. Va. After
the campaign at Manassas, when we came
to Richmond in 1852, our battery was known
as Pages. 1t was in Colonel Carriers bat
talic1i, Jackson's corps, Army Of Northern
Virginia.
/ was in all of the battles after we left
Yorktown up 10 the 18th day OF May, 1864;
and at SpOtsylvania Courthouse, where
was taken prisoner and all our guns were
captured except one. / was taken to Fort
Delaware, where / took the oath on the
Goth day of June, 1865.
/ was wounded at Antietam and Chan
cellorsville and was in prison thirteen
months, which made up the hardest year
of my life.
We lost q men and II horses killed aud
,,-oupdaI ot Gaftvchurp which WAS the