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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
company election at Bottom's bridge, by bivouac, when quite all the officers were changed. In the face of the enemy, such would never have been allowed in any European army. It was accomplished, however, without a hitch of unpleasantness. Octavius Coke, brother of your fellow-townsmen, John A. and Alexander Coke, was made captain; Robert P. Taylor, a gallant comrade, first lieutenant, and John H. Barlow, Jr., a splendid fellow, second lieutenant. The Williamsburg Junior Guards, as Company the hillsides of mature thought, waiting to hear the keel strike on the other shore. The Roll. Officers—J. A. Henley, captain; W. H. E. Morecock, first lieutenant; H. M. Waller, second lieutenant; Dr. Leonard Henley, third lieutenant; Octavius Coke, orderly sergeant; Parke Jones, second sergeant; J. F. Bowery, third sergeant; R. L. Henley (late county judge), fourth sergeant; W. T. Christian, fifth sergeant; W. E. Moss, color-bearer; A. J. Hofheimer, first corporal; R. A. Bowery, second
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
Johnston, in the South. On our retreat from the Peninsula, when General Joseph E. Johnston came down from Manassas to assist General J. Bankhead Mc-Gruder, who was confronted by the superior forces of General Geo. B. McClellan, we dared to hold a company election at Bottom's bridge, by bivouac, when quite all the officers were changed. In the face of the enemy, such would never have been allowed in any European army. It was accomplished, however, without a hitch of unpleasantness. Octavius Coke, brother of your fellow-townsmen, John A. and Alexander Coke, was made captain; Robert P. Taylor, a gallant comrade, first lieutenant, and John H. Barlow, Jr., a splendid fellow, second lieutenant. The Williamsburg Junior Guards, as Company C, was merged into the Thirty-second Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Colonel Edward Montague, of Essex county, commanding, and Dr. James Semple, of Hampton, regimental surgeon. This regiment was with General J. E. B. Stuart when he was killed, and