68 Southern Historical Society Papers.
JOHN B. VILLEPIGUE. 1652. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 23.
Brigadier-General, March 13, 1862. Commanding Second Bri- gade, First Division, Army of Mississippi. Died November 9, 1862.
ABNER SMEAD.* 1655. Born Georgia. Appointed Georgia. 25.
Colonel, September i, 1862- Assistant Inspector-General, Jack- son's Corp's, Army of Northern Virginia.
JOHN O. LONG. 1661. Born Illinois. Appointed at Large. 31.
JOHN T. MERCER.
1670. Born Georgia. Appointed Georgia. 40.
Colonel, September 27, 1861. Commanding Twenty-first Georgia
Infantry. Doles' Brigade, Rhode's Division, Second Corps, Army
of Northern Virginia. Killed April 19, 1864, at Plymouth, N. C.
JOHN MULLINS. 1673. Born Tennessee. Appointed Mississippi, 43.
HORACE RANDAL.
1675. Born Tennessee. Appointed Texas. 45.
Brigadier-General, April 8, 1864. Commanding brigade of cavalry in McCulloch's Division in 1862; in 1863 and 1864 commanded bri- gade in Trans-Mississippi Department. Killed April 30, 1864, at Jenkin's Ferry, Ark.
1855.
FREDERICK L. CHILDS.
1685. Born Missouri. Appointed at Large. 9.
Captain of artillery, March 16. 1861. Served under Whiting pre- paring defences North Carolina coast. Commandant of arsenal at Charleston, July, 1861. Major artillery, November, 1862; arsenal at Augusta, February, 1863; in charge of armory Fayetteville, N. C. Lieutenant-Colonel, November 19, 1863.
FRANCIS R. T. NICHOLLS.*
1688. Born Louisiana. Appointed Louisiana. 12.
Brigadier-General, October 14, 1862. Commanding brigade, Trimble's Division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
