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| Alleghany Roughs in the Great War Company A, 27th Va. Stonewall Brigade Known also as Alleghany Light Infantry and Carpenter's Battery From Richmond Times-Dispatch March 12, 1905 Following is an excellent sketch of the career of the "Alleghany Roughs" more generally known as "Carpenter's Battery." It is by William M. McAllister, Esq., its youngest soldier, whose father, its oldest soldier, commanded the Alleghany Roughs during the first year of the war, while they constituted Company A, of the 27th Va. Infantry, of the Stonewall Brigade. It was observed by those who were in front of the charge of the 4th and 27th Infantry on Rickett's Battery, that Captain McAllister and his son went side by side through it's guns when they were captured. Singularly enough, Colonel Robert McAllister, of the 1st New Jersey Regiment, was in position in the Federal army just opposite to these captured guns, and upon his regiment the guns were turned. Colonel Robert McAllister afterwards became a general in the Federal army, and Captain Thomas McAllister, of the Confederate army, was revered and honored as one of the heroes of Henry Hill. Following is a complete roll of the above company, as constituted on July 21, 1861, at the first battle of Manassas, giving the name, rank, when and where enrolled, and age: Enrolled at Covington, Va., April 22, 1861: Thompson McAllister, Captain, age 49 Peter Jones, Pvt., age 19 Joseph Carpenter, 1st Lt., age unknown Patrick Karnes, Pvt., age 25 George B. McKendree, 2nd Lt., age 27 John Karnes, Pvt., age 21 Henry H. Dunott, 3rd Lt., age 18 Francis L. Karnes, Pvt., age 27 Robert I. Anthony, 1st Sgt., age 18 John King, Pvt., age 21 Benami Karnes, 2nd Sgt., age 24 Joseph Kimberlin, Pvt., age 24 Littleton T. Dickey, 3rd Sgt., age 26 John M. Knight, Pvt., age 28 John G. Rixey, 4th Sgt., age 30 Samuel Low, Pvt., age 20 Charles O. Jordan, 5th Sgt., age 21 William T. Lambie, Pvt., age 32 Philip D. Vowels, 1st Cpl., age 35 Charles Lafferty, Pvt., age 38 James M. Hammond, 2nd Cpl., age 20 John Lampkins, Pvt., age 35 Samual S. Carpenter, 3rd Cpl., age 19 William Moran, Pvt., age 23 J. H. Thompson, 4th Cpl., age unknown James Montague, Pvt., age 19 Marion Alford, Pvt., age 23 John Milligan, Pvt., age 21 Stephen W. P. Bacon, Pvt. age 18 William W. Murrill, Pvt., age 20 James T. Baker, Jr., Pvt., age 22 John W. Matheny, Pvt., age 22 Van R. Banker, Pvt., age 22 Gabriel McDonald, Pvt., age 31 James W. Branham, Pvt., age 26 Andrew McGowen, Pvt., age 23 William W. Baggage, Pvt., age 20 Patrick McMahan, Pvt., age 28 George T. Byrd, Pvt., age 21 Thomas McCarnan, Pvt., age 30 Joseph M. Boswell, Pvt., age 28 John McCullough, Pvt., age 22 Patrick Canty, Pvt., age 31 George R. McKnight, Pvt., age 23 John C. Carpenter, Pvt., age 22 Jacob L. Moyers, Pvt., age 19 James P. Clark, Pvt., age 18 Virginius B. Otey, Pvt., age 21 Patrick Corr, Pvt., age 23 Peter M. Pence, Pvt., age 21 Joseph S. Dressler, Pvt., Age 23 William D. W. Pitzer, Pvt., age 21 Hopkins B. Foster, Pvt., age 20 Michael Quinlin, Pvt., age 24 William C. Fudge, Pvt., age 24 James E. Rose, Pvt., age 24 Joseph T. Fudge, Pvt., age 21 Thomas W. Rooser, Pvt., age 19 Timothy Flinn, Pvt., age 19 Henry B. Ray, Pvt., age 26 Clarence A. Fonerdon, Pvt., age 20 James A. Rogers, Pvt., age 20 James Glenn, Pvt., age 41 Alexander H. Read, Pvt., age 21 James Grady, Pvt., age 27 James Riley, Pvt., age 31 James P. Holmes, Pvt., age 21 James W. Read, Pvt., age 35 William Humphries, Pvt., age 23 John Sawyers, Pvt., age 24 Thomas Hastings, Pvt., age 23 Kyle C. Scott, Pvt., age 22 William B. Hite, Pvt., age 21 John W. Stewart, Pvt., age 19 James A. Jordan, Pvt., age 20 Benjamin P. Stewart, Pvt., age 27 Edwin W. Jordan, Pvt., age 26 William Steele, Pvt., age 27 The following enrolled at Harper's Ferry on May 18, 1861: B. H. Kupp, Pvt., age 28 Patrick Smith, Pvt., age 40 John Smith, Pvt., age 30 |
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