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First Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah

Thirty-third Virginia Infantry
Eight companies

COLONEL A C CUMMINGS
ACTING LIEUTENANT COLONEL W F LEE
Captain W F Lee, Confederate States Army, was temporarily assigned to the regiment on 21 July, 1861. Captain J R Jones, Company I, was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 21 August, 1861.

MAJOR E G LEE
Major not assigned on 21 July, 1861. Captain E G Lee served as an aide to Brigadier General T J Jackson during June and July 1861 and was assigned to the regiment as major on 26 July, 1861.

Company A Potomac Guards: CAPT. P T GRACE
Company B Tom's Brook Guard: CAPT. E CRABILL
Company C Tenth Legion Minutemen: CAPT. J GATEWOOD
Company D Mountain Rangers: CAPT. F W M HOLLIDAY
On detached duty in the Shenandoah Valley and not present on 21 July, 1861.
Company E Emerald Guard: CAPT. M M SIBERT
Company F Independent Greys or Hardy Greys: CAPT. A SPENGLER
Company G Mount Jackson Rifles or Allen's Infantry: CAPT. G W ALLEN
Company H Page Greys: CAPT. W D RIPPETOE
Company I Rockingham Confederates: CAPT. J R JONES
On detached duty in the Shenandoah Valley and not present on 21 July, 1861.
Company K Shenandoah Sharpshooters: CAPT. D H WALTON

Sources

"As the brigade was then in line, the Thirty-third was on the left and was at that time the extreme left of our army. On its right the Second, Fourth, Twenty-seventh and Fifth – the latter, as I understand, a little detached from the balance of the brigade. (The Fourth was in line behind Colonel Pendleton's batteries, and the Twenty-seventh just in rear of it; so that the right centre was four deep. – J. W. D.)"

"Two of the largest companies of the Thirty-third had been left in the Valley. The eight companies present were from Shenandoah, Page, Hampshire and Hardy (five were from Shenandoah, and one each from Page, Hardy and Hampshire); both the latter companies were small, about fifty men, so that deducting the sick and absent, there were only about 400 men in action. I was the only regular field officer in the regiment; but there was a Captain Lee, a splendid man and gallant officer, who had benn temporarily assigned to the regiment and acted as field lieutenant colonel; he was in the charge, struck in the breast with a piece of shell and fell at his post mortally wounded, and died soon afterwards."

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34: Thirty-third at First Manassas, by Arthur C Cummings, Abingdon, 6 May, 1898

The Virginia Regimental Histories Series, Thirty-third Virginia Infantry, Third Edition, by L Reidenbaugh

Four years in the Stonewall Brigade, by John O Casler

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

Notes

The 33rd Virginia Infantry was mustered in Confederate service on 1 July, 1861. Companies D and I were on detached service in the Shenandoah Valley and not present on 21 July, 1861. Three companies, the Potomac Guards, the Hampshire Riflemen and the Independent Greys, were originally assigned to Colonel A C Cummings in early June 1861. The Hampshire Riflemen, numbering only 45 men, were transferred to the 7th Virginia Cavalry, Company F, under the command of Captian G F Sheetz's.

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 33rd 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 33rd Virginia Infantry was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, under the command of Brigadier General T J Jackson.