Book Review: The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia: A Roster

Old Virginia Blog ^ | 4 April 2017 | Richard G. Williams, Jr.

[Davy Buck]

The drive to Brownsburg, Virginia from my home is always a pleasant one. Driving south on Route 252 through the rolling hills and farmland of Augusta and Rockbridge Counties is like taking a trip back in time. Much of the landscape appears as it did 150 years ago. It is simply beautiful.

But my most recent trip had an added benefit: I was headed to the home of Robert (Bob) J. Driver, Jr. to chat with him about his most recent book: The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia: A Roster . Driver’s circa 1795 home in the quaint village of Brownsburg provided the perfect setting to discuss the book. The publisher summarizes the book as follows . . .

[easternsky]

Thanks, sounds like a book worth buying. Been reading a lot on the Children of the South who were taken and made to work in the North. Granddaughter is Home Schooled and We read to each other as part of her assignment.

[kalee]

The mill girls of Roswell GA.

[VeniVidiVici]

May have to get this. Even though my ancestors started in Augusta County in the early 1700s, then migrated to Giles County, eventually ending up in the now Kanawha county WV in 1830, I can’t find more than a couple who actually fought in the Civil War. I’m sure there had to be more.

[yetidog]

My great-grandfather was from Rockbridge County and served in the Rockbridge artillery for most of the war except for one year he sat out because he was 15 when he enlisted. He returned at age 16 and served for the remainder of the war. I found his records in the Texas State archives as a matter of his state pension application which was based on his record of Confederate service. Fascinating stuff.

[yarddog]

3 of my G Grandfathers severed in the Confederate Army. One in the 6th Florida, another I think in the 8th tho I think I have read he was in the First Florida.

My Mother’s Grandfather served in the 18th Alabama. He and two Brothers were captured early in the war but exchanged with Union prisoners. All of those outfits were in many major battles, probably about as much as any.

My 4th G Grandfather was a Methodist Circuit Rider and spent two years at his mission at a Confederate Camp at Doctortown, Georgia. That camp held off Sherman 3 separate times and the river bridge they were protecting was never captured or even damaged.

[Inyo-Mono]

May have to get this. Even though my ancestors started in Augusta County in the early 1700s, then migrated to Giles County, eventually ending up in the now Kanawha county WV in 1830, I can’t find more than a couple who actually fought in the Civil War. I’m sure there had to be more.

My ancestors too started out in Augusta County. By the early 1830s they were in Kanawha County and my great-grandfather fought for the South in Capt. Beckett's Cavalry Co C of the 36th Virginia Infantry. Joined in 1861, captured by Yanks in 1863 and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio. His younger brother, a true hill-billy, fought for the Union.

[bitt]

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[higgmeister]

I had two relatives in the 29th Alabama Infantry Regiment, CSA. My paternal Great Grandfather was in Company C and one of my maternal G. G. Grandfathers was in Company E.

It is odd to think that less than 90 years before I was born, they probably pulled duty, fought and worshiped together or at least knew of each other.

[riverrunner]

My great grandfather served during the war I have the bayonet he carried.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My mother has a framed photo of her as a child standing next to her great uncle who served in the war.

One of my Dad’s relatives rode with McNeill’s raiders and was there when they captured General Crook. I have the sidearm a Whitney Dragoon that was supposedly taken off Crook by my relative at the time of his capture. It’s been handed down to the eldest child since the war.