The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

First Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah

Fifth Virginia Infantry

COLONEL K HARPER
LIEUTENANT COLONEL W H HARMAN
MAJOR W S H BAYLOR

Company A Marion Rifles: CAPT. J H S FUNK
Company B Rockbridge Rifles: CAPT. S H LETCHER
Transferred to the 4th Virginia Infantry, Comapny K, on 3 July, 1861. After 21 July, the company was transferred to the 27th Virginia Infantry, Company H (2nd).
Company C Mountain Guard: CAPT. R L DOYLE
Company D Southern Guard: CAPT. H J WILLIAMS
Company E Augusta Greys: CAPT. J W NEWTON
Company F West View Infantry: CAPT. ST F C ROBERTS
Company G Staunton Rifles: CAPT. A W HARMAN
Company H Augusta Rifles: CAPT. A KOINER
Company I Ready Rifles of Augusta County: CAPT. O F GRINNAN
Company K Continental Morgan Guards: CAPT. J AVIS
Company L West Augusta Guard: CAPT. J H WATERS
Converted to the West Augusta Artillery or Waters Battery after 31 October, 1861. The company was reorganised as an infantry company on 17 April, 1862 and reassigned to the regiment as Company L.
Company M Crawford's Company: CAPT. S M CRAWFORD
Formerly Company G and disbanded on 16 June, 1861.

Sources

"Cadet Junius L Hempstead was assigned to drill the 5th Virginia Infantry."

"In its ranks as acting volunteer captains were Cadets Norris, Hempstead, Wight, and Moffett."

The young lions: Confederate cadets at war, by James Lee Conrad

The Virginia Regimental Histories Series, Fifth Virginia Infantry, by I A Wallace, Jr.

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

Notes

The 5th 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 5th 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 the 5th 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, p. 191
Captain J H Waters, Company L, Fifth Virginia Infantry