BLACK EAGLE COMPANY.
A Typical Command of Confederate Soldiers,
By H. E. WOOD, Ex-Color Sergeant, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment.
As it has been requested that a roster of the different organizations of the Confederate army be given, I will endeavor to give as completed record of the Black Eagle Company of Cumberland county, Va., as I can now remember, after an interval of thirty-eight years. This company was mustered into the service at Richmond, April 23rd, i86i ; and was known afterwards as Company E. Eighteenth regiment, Virginia Volunteers and had the following list of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates :
Harrison, Carter H., first captain, promoted major, Eleventh Virginia Regiment; killed at Bull Run, Va., i8th July, 1861.
Harrison, Randolph, second captain; promoted colonel in Wise's Legion; lost his leg near Petersburg, Va., April, 1865; dead.
Shields, Dr. Thomas P., third captain; wounded at Gaines' Mill, Va., 27th June, 1862; promoted surgeon.
Leitch, Thomas M., second lieutenant ; exempted from service 1862.
Cocke, Edmund R., fourth captain; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Weymouth, John E., first lieutenant; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; dead.
Austin, Cornelius, second lieutenant ; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Cocke, William F., third lieutenant; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Dobbs, Henry J., color sergeant; promoted lieutenant; wounded at Frazer's Farm, Va., 1st July, 1862.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.
Bagby, Bates, killed near Petersburg, Va., 1865.
Barker, Charles, exempted from service, 1861 ; dead.
