Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-18
Movements Of Old Dominion Rifle.
men During First Six Months
Il of 1861

The following are extracts from
the diary Of a2nember of the ODD
Dominion rifles which was one OF
the Alexandria companies Of the
army of Northern Virginia. ne q
notes are from the, first SIX months mont
of the year 1861: =. ~
January 10. Signed the constita-
ton of, the company -9.}
January p. Received my first
gun; an old musket.,
January "a. VIM. H. Fowle, Jr,
elected second lieutenant Of the
company.
February 7. Old Dominion rifles
voted unanimously to join the battal-
lion.
| February IS. The company Wis
tied the fair room in uniform.
February 10. Capt. NJ. D. Corse
elected major of the Alexandria Bat
j talon. Received rifle, No. 81.
| February %. The usual parade,
Alexandria's annual memorial to the
"Father of his Country" took place.
Among the citizens and fire. compa-
MES marched the Old Dominion
Rifles, the Warren Rifles, the Lou
doun Guards, the Mount Vernon
Guards, and the Alexandria Rifle
men.
I February %. Abraham Lincoln,
the new President of the United
States, arrived in Washington.
! March L. Abraham Lincoln was
inaugurated President.
! March Is. A flag was presented
to the Mount Vernon Guards by the
ladies of Alexandria.
: March %. The Company, (Old
Dominion Rifles), practiced their
first skirn,ish drill near Colross.
:; April l. Concert given at Liberty
Hall by the company.
April II. Fort Sumpter attacked
by the Confederates
| April 13. Unconditional surren-
der of Fort Sumpter.
;, April II. Enlisted for one year
, as member of Old Dominion Rifles.
April Is. Battalion met in Ar
mory, and the first guard detailed
for protection of the City. Great
excitement.
April 10. Fight in Baltimore. Ex-
element intense.
! April 81. The flag boat Alice
Fox crossed the Potomac and
brought over three Marylanders. ~
! April %. A guard under Lieu
tenant Fowle was sent to watch
the Long Bridge The first infantry
on said post. During this month the
! Old Dominion Rifles were ordered to
Warrenton, Va, where they guard
ed the commissary stores being COL
lected at thnt point. After about two
weeks absence we returned and took
| up our quarters in the Peyton Grove
Mansion, located on the north side
of the upper end of King street.
May "a EArly on this day the en-
emy landed at the wharves and were
joined by those who, during the
night. marched down the pike from
Washington. Soon after daylight the
Battalion, except the Old Dominion
Rifles, who were overlooked, rend-
ezoused at the corner of Wash
ington and Prince streets in prepara-
ton for evacuating the city. In the
meantime the tragedy at the Mar
shall House, in which Colonel Ellis
worth and jackson the keeper of the
hotel, were killed, had occurred
The battalion marching out the Duke
street road, met several trains of
cars backing in from Springfield
station. Hating these trains all
embarked, and were taken to Ma
nassas, where many Virginia troops
had assembled.
Manassas, June 1st. Captain John
Q. Mari, of the Warrcnton Rifles,
was killed in a skirmish at Fairfax
Court House.
General G. 7. Beauregard arrived
at Manassas, and assumed the COM
mand of the army.
June 1G. The Seventeenth Vir-
ginia Regiment was organized this
day, and was composed of the fol-
lowing companies:
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