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Agner, JuM-ph S.
Heard, William B.
I)i-<-ki'nl>rough, Willoughby N.
Coffee, Whitfield A.
Conner, John
Craig, John B.
D.i\is, Mark
Dudley, Ro. M.
Ford, James A.
Gold, John M.
Harris, Alexander
Hosteller, George W.
Lepard, James N.
Lewis, Ro. P.
McCampbell, David A.
McCluer, John G.
Moore, John D.
Morgan, George W.
Phillips, James H.
Raines, Archibald G.
Silvey, James A.
Smilh, Joseph S.
Thompson, John A.
Trevy, Daniel J.
Wilson,
Ayers, Napoleon B. Bane, Samuel R. Bumpus, William N., Jr. Conner, James A. Conner, Ro. P. Curran, Daniel Doran, John Ford, Henry F. Gibbs, John T., Jr. Gordon, William C. Harris, Bolin Johnson, William F. Lewis, Henry
Leyburn, John (acling surgeon.) McCampbell, William A. Montgomery, William G. Moore, Samuel R., Jr. O'Rourke, Frank Rader, Daniel P. Rhodes, Jacob N. Smilh, Adam Strickler, James A. Thompson, Samuel G. Wallace, John Samuel A.
All the men and officers, except the captain, were enlisted in Lexington by Captain McCausland, on April 29, 1861, excepting, also, William M. Brown, who seems to have enlisted at Harper's Ferry on 22d May.
The company remained in Lexington about ten days, drilling assiduously with muskets, or with the field-guns belonging lo the Virginia Military Institute.
Some of the survivors may recall amusing incidents of those early days such as Hosteller's bringing down his musket, at the com- mand "order arms," on the loes of Hide Henry Ford, and the lalter's unsoldierly and profane exclamation, which shocked his comrades, the more as iheir caplain was a clergyman. The caplain had a sense of the ludicrous, as well as conviclions in regard lo pro-
