The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

First Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah

Private W Culp, Company B, 2nd Virginia Infantry

Private W Culp, Company B, 2nd Virginia Infantry

Second Virginia Infantry

COLONEL J W ALLEN
LIEUTENANT COLONEL F LACKLAND
MAJOR L BOTTS

Company A Jefferson Guards: CAPT. J W ROWAN
Company B Hamtramck Guards: CAPT. V M BUTLER
Company C Nelson Guards: CAPT. W N NELSON
Company D Berkeley Border Guards: CAPT. J Q A NADENBOUSCH
Company E Hedgesville Blues: CAPT. R T COLSTON
Company F Winchester Rifles: CAPT. W L CLARK
Company G Botts Greys: CAPT. E L MOORE
Company H Letcher Riflemen: CAPT. J H L HUNTER
Company I Clarke Riflemen: CAPT. S H BOWEN
Company K Floyd Guards: CAPT. G W CHAMBERS
Transferred from the 1st Virginia Infantry prior to June 1861.

Sources

"Owing to some accident on the road, a part of the first brigade, under General T J Jackson, did not reach Manassas until early on Sunday morning, 21st. Captain Colston arrived on the field about sunrise on Sunday morning with but twelve men. He had been deserted during the first night's march by his first and second lieutenants, and their example had been followed by a number of the privates of the company. Nothing daunted, Captain Colston went into battle, leading those twelve brave, true hearts, and there gained that reputation for intrepid daring and courage which he so well sustained ever afterwards."

Memorial, Virginia Military Institute: Biographical sketches of the graduates and élèves of the Virginia Military Institue who fell during the war between the states, by Charles D Walke

The Virginia Regimental Histories Series, Second Virginia Infantry, by D Frye

A Guide to Virginia Military Organisations 1861–1865, Revised Second Edition by I A Wallace, Jr.

Notes

The 2nd Virginia Infantry was mustered in Confederate service on 1 July, 1861.

At 1 AM on 18 July, 1861, the War Department at Richmond ordered General J E Johnston to move the Army of the Shenandoah from Winchester to Manassas Junction. Brigadier General T J Jackson's brigade was first to take the road and marched to Piedmont Station arriving at 6 AM on 19 July. The 2nd Virginia Infantry boarded the train of freight and cattle cars arriving at Manassas Junction near sunset and went into camp in a pine thicket near Blackburn's Ford the night of 19 July.

On 25 July 1861, the Army of the Shenandoah was reorganised and 2nd Virginia Infantry was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, under the command of Brigadier General T J Jackson.

Report

REPORTS TO ADDENDUM: Series I, Volume 2, pp. 189–190
Colonel J W Allen, Second Virginia Infantry