Virginia 12th Infantry Regiment
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Rosters:Company A, formerly the Petersburg City Guard, 4th Battalion light infantry, original enlistment 19 April 1861, reorganized 1 May 1862, with Captain John P. May commanding. Later, Charles E. Waddell was promoted to captain.
Company B, formerly the Petersburg Grays, Company A, light infantry, original enlistment 19 April 1861, reorganized 1 May 1862, with Captain John Lyon. Later, Robert R. Bowden, then, Thomas P. Pollard.
Company C, originally the Petersburg New Grays, Company B, light infantry, enlistment 19 April 1861 with reorganization on 1 May 1862 Captain Thomas H. Hood, then, Louis L. Marks, next, Stephen G. White.
Company D, formerly the Lafayette Guard, Petersburg, light infantry enlisted 19 April 1861. Reorganized 1 May 1862, Conscripts from Patrick County supplemented this roster. Captain William A. Jarvis commanding. Then, James P Critz, James E. Tyler.
Company E, first was known as the Petersburg Riflemen, light infantry, enlisting 19 April 1861 then reorganized 1 May 1862, with Captain Danial Dodson, then Robert Banks and next, John R. Patterson.
Company F, originally the Hufer Grays, were from Hicksford, now Emporia in Greenville County. The also were organized in April of 1861, reorganizing 1 May 1862
Company G, known as the Richmond Grays, were Company A, 1st regiment, Virginia Volunteers, enlisting 19 April 1861. They detached when the 1st Regiment Virginia Volunteers were accepted into Confederate States service. The company was accepted in the 12th Regiment when was reorganized 1 May 1862. Records may be mixed up here as some records indicate this company still being in the 1st Regiment. Captain was Wyatt M Elliott, then Jacob V. Crawford, Edwin White Branch and Robert Mayo, Jr.
Company H, was originally known as the Norfolk Junior Volunteers, from Norfolk, formerly Captain Fergusson's Company, 6th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, organized 1862, enlisted 19 August 1861 for a year mustered while in State service as the 6th Regiment and was accepted into Confederate States service as Company H, 12th Regiment; Captain Finley F. Fergusson. Thomas F Owens was elected captain in April 1862.
Company I, formerly known as the Hargrove Blues, Dinwiddie County (1st) enlisted 11 June 1861, reorganized in May 1862, then detached from the 12th Regiment as per S.O. 382, A&IGO, dated 5 June 1862; served as an unattached company until assigned as Company H (2nd) , 9th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, as per S. O. 382, A&IGO, dated 28 November 1863. records indicated the company belonged to the 12th Regiment until the time the regiment reorganized. Captains were Arthur M Goodwyn then Archibald B. Goodwyn.
Company I (2nd) known as Richard W. Jones' Company, enlisted 22 February 1862 for the war, and mustered on 30 April 1862 as an attached to the regiment ; substituted for Company I (1st) as per S. O. No. 129, A&IGO., dated June 5, 1862.
Company K, formerly Archer's Rifles, Petersburg, organized 4 May 1861 and reorganized 1 May 1862. Captains were Fletcher H. Archer and Lewellyn T. Clements.
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