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825 Series I Volume V- Serial 5 - West Virginia

Page 825 Chapter XIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

Organization of the First Corps, Army of the Potomac, commanded by General G. T. Beauregard, C. S. Army, headquarters Manassas, August [31?] 1861.

FIRST BRIGADE.

Brigadier General M. L. Bonham, commanding.

Second South Carolina.

Third South Carolina.

Seventh South Carolina.

Eighth South Carolina.

SECOND BRIGADE.

Brigadier General R. S. Ewell, commanding.

Fifth Alabama.

Sixth Alabama.

Eighteenth Alabama.

Twelfth Mississippi.

THIRD BRIGADE.

Brigadier General D. R. Jones, commanding.

Fourth South Carolina.

Fifth South Carolina.

Sixth South Carolina.

Ninth South Carolina.

FOURTH BRIGADE.

Brigadier General James Longstreet, commanding.

First Virginia.

Seventh Virginia.

Eleventh Virginia.

Seventeenth Virginia.

FIFTH BRIGADE.

Brigadier General Ph. St. Geo. Cocke, commanding.

Eighteenth Virginia.

Nineteenth Virginia.

Twenty-eighth Virginia.

Twenty-ninth Virginia.

SIXTH BRIGADE.

Brigadier General J. A. Early, commanding.

Fifth North Carolina.

Eleventh North Carolina.

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North Carolina.

Twenty-fourth Virginia.

SEVENTH BRIGADE.

Colonel N. G. Evans, commanding.

Seventh Mississippi.

Thirteenth Mississippi.

Seventeenth Mississippi.

Eighteenth Mississippi.

EIGHTH BRIGADE.

Colonel J. G. Seymour, commanding.

First Special Battalion, Louisiana.

Sixth Regiment, Louisiana.

Seventh Regiment, Louisiana.

Eighth Regiment, Louisiana.

Ninth Regiment, Louisiana.

Abstract from return of the Third Division Virginia Militia, commanded by Brigadier General James H. Carson, for August, 1861.

Present for duty .

Troops Officers Men Aggregate Aggregate

present present

and absent

SEVENTH BRIGADE

First Regiment 26 367 461 798

Infantry

Second Regiment 29 423 661 985

Infantry

Third Regiment 21 291 373 644

Infantry

Fourth Regiment 31 331 450 770

Infantry

SIXTEENTH BRIGADE

Thirty-first 27 115 148 723

Regiment Infantry

Fifty-first 20 82 155 251

Regiment Infantry

Eighth-ninth 13 67 88 230

Regiment Infantry

One hundred and 32 415 462 845

fourteenth

Regiment Infantry

One hundred and 13 38 85 233

twenty-second

Regiment Infantry

Grand total 212 2,129 2,883 5,488


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