Legends of Loudoun: An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern NeckWilliams, Harrison
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Legends of Loudoun: An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
Williams, Harrison
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Loudoun County; Loudoun County (Va.) -- History
1st Virginia Cavalry Stribbling's Artillery
2nd Virginia Cavalry Letcher's Artillery
4th Virginia Cavalry Gillmore's Battalion
6th Virginia Cavalry 34th Va. Artillery
7th Virginia Cavalry Loudoun Artillery
35th Va. (White's) Battalion 8th Virginia Infantry
43rd Va. Battalion (Mosby's Rangers)
1st Maryland Cavalry 17th Virginia Infantry
1st Richmond Howitzers 40th Virginia Infantry
Stuart's Horse Artillery 1st Georgia Infantry
Chew's Battery
7th Georgia Infantry
while, in addition, were many who served with staff rank or otherwise,
such as Dr. C. Shirley Carter, Surgeon on General Staff; John W.
Fairfax, Colonel, Adjutant and Inspector General's Department; J. R.
Huchison, Captain on Staffs of Generals Hunton and B. Johnson; A. H.
Rogers, First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Campe; William H. Rogers,
Lieutenant on Staff; Colonel Charles M. Fauntleroy, Inspector General on
Staff of General Joseph C. Johnston; H. O. Claggett, Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster; Arthur M. Chichester, Captain and Assistant
Military Engineer; L. C. Helm, scout for Generals Beauregard and Lee; B.
W. Lynn, First Lieutenant Ordnance Department; William H. Payne,
Brigadier General of Cavalry, A. N. V.; John Y. Bassell, staff of
General W. L. Jackson and midshipman C. S. Navy.
[153] _Loudoun Rangers_, by Briscoe Goodhart, p. 19.
[154] _The Comanches_, by F. M. Myers, p. 19.
In the northern part of the county, Union men joined two companies of
cavalry which were known as the Loudoun Rangers, an independent command
raised by Captain Samuel C. Means of Waterford, under a special order of
E. M. Stanton, the Secretary of War and later merged in the 8th U. S.
Corps. Between the troopers of this organization on the one side and
those of White and Mosby on the other, some of them former friends and
schoolmates, even brothers, there were frequent and vicious engagements
and mutual animosity ran high, as presently we shall see.[155]
[155] To get the full flavor of the bitterness engendered, read F. M.
Myers' _Comanches_, and Goodhart's _Loudoun Rangers_.
[Illustration: THE OLD VALLEY BANK, LEESBURG.]
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