Confederate Inspection Report:
Rodes’ (eventually Grimes’) Division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia1
August 20, 1864
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia produced inspection reports at approximately monthly intervals late in the Civil War. Luckily, many of these reports have been preserved and are available on microfilm from the National Archives and Records Association. I have produced transcriptions of the key information from these reports. See the bottom of this page for freely downloadable transcriptions of most of these reports. This transcription is copyrighted by Brett Schulte and may not be distributed, changed, or reproduced in any manner without the written consent of the transcriber.
M935 Roll #: 10
Image # from Digitized Copy: 0069-0093.jpg
Date of Inspection: August 20, 1864
Commander: Major General Robert E. Rodes (Rodes never commanded at Petersburg. He was killed September 19, 1864 at Third Winchester.)
Inspection Location: Bunker Hill in the Shenandoah Valley
Aggregate Present & Absent: 13,120
Aggregate Effective for the Field: 3,332
Officers and Men Present for Duty (PFD): 3,386
Weapons: .58 caliber rifles (probably some combination of Springfield and Enfield Rifled Muskets)
Sub-Units:
- Battle’s Brigade, Brigadier General Cullen A. Battle, 966 officers and men PFD
- Grimes’ Brigade, Brigadier General Bryan Grimes, 918 officers and men PFD
- Cook’s Brigade, Brigadier General Philip Cook, 699 officers and men PFD
- Ramseur’s (Cox’s) Brigade, Brigadier General William R. Cox, 803 officers and men PFD
Downloadable Spreadsheet:
- I did not do a detailed transcription of this report because it was not taken at Petersburg. You can access the images for this report at the Internet Archive. If you are interested in transcribing this inspection report from the original images, please CONTACT US.
Source/Notes:
- Confederate Inspection Report 1-P-17: Rodes’ Division, August 20, 1864; Inspection Reports and Related Records Received By the Inspection Branch in the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M935, Roll 10: Inspection Reports P-12 – 39-P-24); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩