The Old Dominion Brigade

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Mahone

But it would be doing injustice to Brigadier-General Wilcox to pass unnoticed his own gallant conduct and that of his troops at Salem Church, where they bore almost the whole brunt of the enemy's onset, and successfully repelled it; to Brigadier-General Mahone, to omit to mention his bold, skillful, and successful management, so well seconded by his brave Virginians; to Brigadier-General Wright and his high-spirited, fearless Georgians, whose attack at the furnace on the evening of the 1st, and whose unflinching advance against the enemy's guns under a heavy fire of grape on the evening of the 4th, excited the admiration of all who saw them; and to Brigadier-General Perry and his heroic little band of Floridians, who showed a courage as intrepid as that of any others in their assault upon the enemy in his intrenchments on the 3d, and in their subsequent advance upon Chancellorsville. From the report of General Anderson on the battle of Chancellorsville.

Sometimes called The Old Dominion Brigade, this brigade was a core member of Richard H. Anderson's Division. It served from the Seven Days until Appomattox, joining the Third Corps along with the rest of Anderson's Division in the reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia prior to the Gettysburg Campaign, Anderson's Division having served previously in Longstreet's First Corps.

Image of General William "Little Billy" Mahone, commander of the Brigade

The brigade's principal commanders included Major General William Mahone (promoted to division level command) and Brig. General David A. Weisiger. The brigade was all Virginian. It consisted of the 6th, 12th, 16th, 41st, and 61st Virginia Infantry Regiments.

6th Virginia

  • Col. Thomas Jefferson Corprew (07/04/30-05/24/73)
  • Norfolk businessman involved in railroads
  • Lt. Col. William T. Lundy (ca. 1827-?)
  • Virginia legislature during the War
  • Col. William Mahone
  • Col. George Thomas Rogers (04/28/28-03/05/1901)
  • Of Princess Anne Cty; postwar newspaper editor in Norfolk
  • Maj. Robert Barraud Taylor (06/08/38-08/20/96)
  • Of Norfolk; served till Appomattox; postwar doctor
  • Lt. Col. Henry W. Williamson

12th Virginia

  • Maj. Edgar Longden Brockett (03/09/21-03/07/87)
  • Of Alexandria; dropped May reorganization
  • Col. Everard Meade Feild (07/18/31-07/17/1915)
  • Of Greensville Cty; wounded 3 times; postwar Petersburg merchant
  • Maj. Richard Watson Jones (05/16/37-12/18/1914)
  • Of Greensville Cty; postwar professor and college president in Mississippi
  • Lt. Col. John Richard Lewellen (1822-12/04/86)
  • Mexican War vet and farmer; wounded at 2d Manassas and Crampton's Gap; postwar newspaper editor
  • Maj. John Pegram May (09/17/29-08/30/62)
  • Petersburg lawyer killed at Second Manassas
  • Lt. Col. Fielding Lewis Taylor (04/10/25-10/03/62)
  • Of Norfolk; mortally wounded at Crampton's Gap; buried Hollywood
  • Col. David A. Weisiger

16th Virginia

  • Col. Raleigh E. Colston
  • Col. Charles A. Crump
  • Col. Stapelton Crutchfield
  • Col. Joseph Hutchinson Ham (06/06/38-04/26/1912)
  • Of Hampton; VMI 1859; wounded at Second Manassas; postwar school superintendant in Hampton
  • Maj. Francis David Holladay (06/08/17-07/03/68)
  • Suffolk hotel keeper; captured at Crampton's Gap; resigned March 1863
  • Lt. Col. John Cary Page (02/22/30-02/12/97)
  • Of Locust Grove; VMI 1851; dropped May reorganization; Cumberland Cty farmer
  • Lt. Col. Henry Tucker Parrish (09/14/29-02/15/1913)
  • VMI 1851; Farmville lawyer; dropped at reorganization and became provost marshal at Farmville; postwar judge
  • Lt. Col. Richard Owen Whitehead (12/27/30-03/04/1911)
  • Of Suffolk; wounded at Burgess Mill; postwar teacher, lawyer, engineer in California
  • Maj. John Thomas Woodhouse (04/15/38-05/22/1917)
  • Wounded at Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, and Crater. Post-war planter and county treasurer of Princess Anne Cty

41st Virginia

  • Lt. Col. George Blow (05/05/13-05/02/94)
  • Of Sussex Cty; member Virginia secession Convention; postwar Norfolk judge
  • Col. John R. Chambliss
  • Maj. William H. Etheridge (07/27/20-06/03/62)
  • Of Norfolk; farmer and blacksmith who served till Appomattox
  • Lt. Col. Joseph P. Minetree
  • Col. William Allen Parham (?-?)
  • Of Sussex Cty; wounded at Malvern Hill
  • Maj. Francis W. Smith

61st Virginia

  • Col. Virginus Despeaux Groner (09/07/36-?)
  • Of Norfolk; prewar Texas Indian fighter; wounded at Spotsylvania
  • Maj. Charles Robert McAlpine (04/09/27-02/14/76)
  • Of Princess Anne Cty; wounded in 1864; Portsmouth doctor
  • Lt. Col. William F. Niemeyer
  • Lt. Col. William H. Stewart
  • Col. Samuel M. Wilson (?-?)

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