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Civilwar - Rosters Co. B, 21st VA
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Maryland Guards (CSA)
COMPANY B, TWENTY-FIRST VIRGINIA.

  ONE of the finest companies to enter the Confederate service from Maryland was
Company B, Twenty-first Virginia Infantry. The company was formed by Captain J.
Lyle Clarke, and was composed principally of members of the Maryland Guard, at
that time a famous military organization in Baltimore.

  This company was mustered into the service at Richmond on the 24th of May,
1861, and sent out to Camp Lee, or rather the Camp of Instruction.

  Captain Clarke there found another Maryland company under command of Captain
E. R. Dorsey, which had been mustered into the service a few days before, and
still later a third company was formed by Captain William H. Murray. These three
companies enlisted for one year, but in some unaccountable manner the War
Department conceived the idea that the companies of Murray and Dorsey were war
companies, and they were consequently sent to Winchester to help form the First
Maryland Regiment.

  Captain Clarke and the splendid men under his command were dreadfully
chagrined at being thus separated from their comrades, and pleaded to be sent
after them, but the Secretary of War was inexorable. They were told to remain in
camp until other companies were formed, when they would be sent to join the
First Maryland, though they were but a battalion.

  But, unfortunately, in the meantime troops were badly needed to operate
against McClellan in West Virginia, after General Garnet's defeat at Phillipi,
and all of the available companies then at Camp Lee were hastily formed into
regiments, and under General Robert E. Lee were sent out to Valley Mountain,
Captain Clarke's Maryland company being attached to the Twenty-first Virginia,
under Colonel William Gilham, of the Virginia Military Institute.

  After the memorable campaign against Rosecranz, in the summer and fall of
1861, the Twenty-first was transferred to the command of Stonewall Jackson, then
in the Valley of Virginia, and participated with him in his wonderful campaign
in 1862 up to the expiration of their term of service, on May 24.

  Captain Clarke had the proud satisfaction of seeing nearly all of the company
that had been spared immediately enlist in different branches of the service and
those that survived served until the surrender.

  Company B was certainly one of the best drilled companies in the Army of
Virginia, and General Lee upon two occasions stated that it was the best drilled
infantry company he ever saw, not excepting the regulars.

  Following is a correct roster of this fine company, commonly known in the army
as the "Maryland Guards" :

ROSTER OF COMPANY B, MARYLAND GUARD,
21st VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
Captain,                J. LYLE CLARKE.
First Lieutenant,       R. CURZON HOFFMAN.
Second Lieutenant,      W. STUART SYMINGTON.
Third Lieutenant,       JOSEPH SELBY.

GEORGE G. GIBSON, First Sergeant.
RICHARD M. BARNES, Sergeant.
JOHN W. SCOTT, Sergeant.
JOSEPH SELBY, Sergeant.
D. BOWLY THOMPSON, Sergeant.
CHARLES E. HAYWARD, Sergeant.
GEORGE D. MERCER, Corporal.
WILLIAM T. OUTTEN, Corporal
ADRIAN D. PRICE, Corporal.
ROBERT LEMMON, Corporal.
JAMES SELBY, Corporal.

Privates.
BUCK, A. KIRKLAND.
BESTOR, ROLLIN JOHN.
BESTOR, JOHN ROLLIN.
BRADY, JOHN H.
BAYLY, JAMES P.
BOYD, DAVID. -
BLANFORD, SAMUEL H.
CRISE, GEORGE W.
COOKE, WILLIAM.
CARROLL, M. PHILIP.
CROYEAU, EDWARD A.
CARUSI, SAMUEL P.
COLSTON, WILLIAM E.
CARTER, WILLIAM H.
CLOSE, JAMES.
CARR, W. C N.
CAULFIELD, JAMES.
CARROLL, T. STAPLETON.
DORSEY, RICHARD B.
DUGAN, PIERRE C.
DOUGLAS, BERNHARD.
DUGAN, HAMMOND.
DUSENBERY, H. BOWIE.
DALL, H. MCPHERSON.
DUVALL, LEONIDAS.
ELDER, PHILIP L.
ERNULL, A. W.
FREEMAN, R. M.
FASSITT, WILLIAM P.
FREEMAN, LEWIS.
FOSTER, JAMES H.
FOSTER, ROBERT E.
FORSYTH, A. M.
GUYTHER, WILLIAM.
GOWDEY, JAMES.
GILMOR, C. J.
GREENWELL, JOSEPH A.
GROGAN, JAMES J.
GREEN, J. F.
GADD, W. F.
HEINER, CHARLES M.
HAYWARD, CHARLES E.
HARRISON, J. W.
HAASE, T. H; B.
HIGGINS, JOHN P.
HULL, JOHN.
HIGGINS, EUGENE.
HODSON, E. PAYTON.
IGLEHART, W. T.
JENKINS, E. COURTNEY.
JENKINS, THEODORE.
JENKINS, JOHN CARROLL.
KREBS, CHARLES.
KEECH, SHELTON A.
LEVERING, THOMAS.
LARABEE, H. CLAY.
LlTTLESTON, T. P.
MARTIN, PATRICK.
McGEE, GEORGE R.
MONTAGUE, POWHATTAN.
MAGUIRE, CHARLES E.
McCALEB, JAMES.
McARDLE, HENRY A.
NORRIS, W. EPA.
NEALE, E. C.
NORFOLK, GEORGE S.
O'BRIEN, EDWARD.
PEARSON, CHARLES.
PRESSTMAN, GEORGE R.
RATCLIFFE, GEORGE E.
RODGERS, JAMES P.
ROCHE, THOMAS F.
ROGERS, EDWARD G.
SULLIVAN, JOHN H.
SIMPSON, NATHAN.
SHAKELFORD, GEORGE.
SNOWDEN, J. H.
STRAHAN, CHARLES.
SELBY, JAMES.
SMITH, A. AUSTIN.
SCHULBAK, WILLIAM F.
SMITH, WILLIAM F.
SYMINGTON, WILLIAM H.
SULLIVAN, CLEMENT.
SPENCER, E. N.
THOMAS J. WILLIAM.
TENNANT, T. M.
TIFFANY, HENRY.
THOMPSON, B. BOWLY.
WEBB, GEORGE W., JR.
WILSON, JAMES.
WRIGHT, D. G.
WAMBERSIE, J. E.
WARD, FRANK X.
WILLIAMS, T. P.
WOOTTEN, WILLIAM T.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

THE MARYLAND LINE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
1861-1865.
BY
W. W. GOLDSBOROUGH.

PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MARYLAND LINE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' HOME,
PIKESVILLE, MARYLAND, UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF THE MARYLAND LINE.
1900.

PRESS OF GUGGENHEIMER, WEIL & CO.
BALTIMORE, MD.




NOTE.
The article on the Second Maryland Cavalry is contributed by Gen. Bradley T.
Johnson, 
and that on the Third Maryland Artillery by Capt. W. L. Ritter.


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