One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . atfield; Senior First Lieutenant, Gustavus A. Fuller; JuniorFirst Lieutenant, Thomas F. Morris; Senior Second Lieutenant,Benjamin Gurney; Junior Second Lieutenant, Charles G. Price. Virginia, 1828. Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. This Company was organized February 22nd, 1828, Miles Kingbeing Captain, and it at once took a leading position among themilitary of the State, which position it m
One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . atfield; Senior First Lieutenant, Gustavus A. Fuller; JuniorFirst Lieutenant, Thomas F. Morris; Senior Second Lieutenant,Benjamin Gurney; Junior Second Lieutenant, Charles G. Price. Virginia, 1828. Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. This Company was organized February 22nd, 1828, Miles Kingbeing Captain, and it at once took a leading position among themilitary of the State, which position it maintained until the break-ing out of the Rebellion. On the 18th of April, 1861, the battery- wasmustered into the Southern Army. In the spring of 1864, they werecaptured by the Union forces in front of Petersburg. Fifty-eightmen and officers were taken and remained in confinement until theclose of the war. In consequence of the laws prohibiting the or-ganization of military companies in the Southern States after theclose of the war, the surviving members of the company formedthemselves into a benevolent organization for the purpose of ad-ministering to the wants of the widows and orphans of those who. 1876 HISTORY OF LEGIONARY COMMANDS 23il were killed or died in the service. In 187], the prohibition beingremoved the company was reorganized with sixty-one officers of the company were. Captain, Samuel Hodges; SeniorFirst Lieutenant, R. Frank Vaughan; Junior First Lieutenant, Moore; Second Lieutenant, H. C. Whitehead. The imiform wasa gray coat and pants trimmed with red. United States regulationcap, gray, with red plume, and they were armed with artillerysabres. Georgia, 1852. The Clinch Rifles. This company belongs to Augusta, Georgia, and was organizedMarch 22nd, 1852, named after a distinguished soldier of theFlorida wars—Gen. Duncan L. Clinch. The company served dur-ing the war, under Capt. C. S. Piatt, being attached to the FirstRegiment Georgia Voluntee
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