Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-22

Three escaped casualty.
The company was mustered into ser
vice April a. 1861, assigned TO the
Eighteenth Regiment, Colonel X II.
Withers, and left Camp Lee for Manassas
MAY 18th. At this time, or just prior to
it, 1t was enlarged by twenty-eight others
joining IT,
OF these there were discharged or trans
ferred .......... .............'
Died In service. ......................'...
Killed In battle. ............-..............
Wounded .............. ......... .....A......lO
q
The one who suffered no casualty was
q member Of the band. The first battle
II was in was the First Manassas-July
2lst-and afterwards II was In all the
battles Of Pickett's Brigade and Division
to Sailors Creek, where It's organization
was broken UP. nearly every man having
been killed or taken prisoner. At the
reorganization of the company at York
town in April, 1862, there were added by
recruits twenty-slx.
or these there were killed In battle....
Died in service..................
Wounded ....... ........ ...."....'....... =. Z
10
A recapitulation Of the roll shows:
Captains, four-one resigned the first year
on account of disease; one resigned at
the end OF the first year on account OF
age; one resigned June, 1853, on account
of wounds: one was killed at Sailors
Creek.
Lieutenants, seven-two resigned early
In the war on account of physical dis
ability: four were wounded, and one
killed.
Non-commissioned officers. lle-wounded,
IL killed. z.
Privates, 1l6-Detailed or transferred 6
Discharged for age or disability....... 8
*
Died in eervice................... 20
wounded ......... ......... -.............. 81
Killed........ .................. ............ %
Total rank and file....................145
Killed in battle. Is
Wounded (sometimes twice and more).. AZ
Died in service. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
e5
OF the enlisted men OF 1s61-'62 who
went through the war only five escaped
unhurt. and two of these were detailed
men
At the battle Of Gaines's Mil and
Frazier's Farm the company had thirty
nine out of forty-five killed and wounded.
At the battle of Gettysburg. out Of
thirty-six, rank and file. eleven were
killed and nineteen wounded.
At Sailors Creek Captain Archer
Campbell-;he fourth and last commander
of the company-was killed in the act Of
surrendering.
At Appomattox one lieutenant and seve-
raj Of the men who escaped at Sailors
Creek were included in the surrender
Colonel X. Il. Withers. the first COM
mander of the Eighteenth Regiment said
Of this company: "a company which
never failed In the hour Of trial, and
was always to be depended on"
Colonel II. A. Darlington, successor to
Colonel Withers said OF It: zone of the
truest and most gallant companies which
fought through the late war"
Lieutenant-Colonel @. G. Cabell said:
"A noble band OF Virginia braves whose
gallant deeds reflected undimmed honor
on their county, their State, their country,
and her cause"
Adjutant Ferguson said: AT the bat
tie of Gettysburg. Company @ was de-
ployed as skirmishers, and at the proper
time assembled and took It's place in the
line ! remember well. 1t was manoeuyred
handsomely.
AS adJutant, / was In a situation 10
known, and can testify to the admirable
conduct or the entire regiment; how
they closed up when large gaps were
made in the rank; how orderly they
moved forward. driving the enemy. and
how the few scattered ones that remained
unhurt held their ground hoping, but in
vain, for support, until they were killed
or captured by the fresh troops Of the
Federals that were pushed forward to
restore the broken lines. No charge
could have been more gallant Looking
at It now. after a lapse Of years, with
calm reflection. i think may say, no
commentator given by writer's concern
ing this celebrated charge of Pickett's
Division has ever exceeded the truth"
Thirty years after the surrender, as
Tar as could be ascertained. there were
surviving OF the 145 men Of. Company @.
scattered from Virginia to Texas thirty
SIX or these. Captain Richard Irby and
Lieutenant Richard Ferguson, are tha
only surviving commissioned officers.
. The above items were gathered from a
historical Sketch" OF the company. pub
liShed In 1873 by the survivine cantat.