Little has been found on this unit. From an article on line they may have been mounted and fought in the battle of New Market.
One of the soldiers camped on the church grounds, Private James D. Hillyard of Capt. George Chrisman's Boy Company, Co. A, 3rd Battalion, Virginia Mounted Reserves, recalled how he and his fellow soldiers teased the young cadets of the Virginia Military Institute as they marched past Bethlehem Church. Hillyard and his companions shouted 'Where did you leave your mother?' and other remarks at the passing cadets. 'The boys never returned a word', Hillyard recalled, 'but stepped along in silence' toward their fate in the battle of New Market. After the war, Hillyard became a deacon at Bethlehem Stone Church.
George Chrisman (b.1832, d.1915), was a commanding officer for the Confederacy. Captain George Chrisman led 'Chrisman's Infantry' (CO. H, 10th VA VOL INF) and later, 'Chrisman's Boy Company,' (CO. A, 3rd BAT VA RESERVES), a unit of sixteen and seventeen year-olds that was mustered into service on April 3, 1864.
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