Confederate Inspection Report:
Terry’s Brigade, Evans’ 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: 0161-0179.jpg
Date of Inspection: August 20, 1864
Commander: Brigadier General William Terry2
Inspection Location: Camp near Bunker Hill, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley
Aggregate Present & Absent: 6.042
Aggregate Effective for the Field: 759
Officers and Men Present for Duty (PFD): 858
Weapons: Enfield Rifles
Sub-Units:
- 2nd-4th-5th-27th-33rd Virginia, Colonel John H. S. Funk (of the 5th VA), 280 officers and men PFD
- 21st-25th-42nd-44th-48th Virginia, Colonel Robert H. Dungan (of the 48th VA), 395 officers and men PFD
- 10th-23rd-37th Virginia, Lt. Col. Samuel H. Saunders (of the 42nd VA), 176 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 7-P-17: Terry’s Brigade, 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. ↩
- SOPO Editor’s Note: This William Terry was a brigadier general in the Second Corps. Another William Terry, William R. Terry, was a Brigadier General in Pickett’s Division, First Corps. They are NOT the same person. ↩
Please note : the 50th Virginia Infantry regiment was also included within Col. R.H. Dungan’s group (21st-25th-42nd-44th-48th Virginia Infantry).
See https://ia902805.us.archive.org/24/items/NARA_M935_Roll_10/0163.jpg -> 2nd Brigade.
Dave,
Thanks for the comment. The 50th Virginia was with this brigade at Bunker Hill in the Shenandoah Valley in August 1864, but my site focuses on the Siege of Petersburg. The 50th Virginia was never at the Siege of Petersburg. When the brigade left the Valley for Petersburg in December 1864, the 50th Virginia stayed behind. They were at the Battle of Waynesboro in late February 1865. See this Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waynesboro,_Virginia
Brett