51st Infantry Regiment was formed in August, 1861, with eleven companies. Company L was later assigned to the 23rd Battalion. Its members were recruited in the counties of Wythe, Nelson, Bland, Floyd, and Grayson. During the war it started in General Floyd's and G.C. Wharton's Brigade. The 51st served in the Army of the Kanawha, moved to Tennessee, and after fighting at Fort Donelson marched to Nashville with 274 men. Later it was sent to western Virginia, saw action at Carnifax Ferry, then returned to Tennessee where it was involved in the Knoxville Campaign. The unit went on to fight in numerous conflicts in the Shenandoah Valley and sometime around April 15, 1865, disbanded. It reported 9 killed, 43 wounded, and 5 missing at Fort Donelson, and 3 killed and 16 wounded at Fayetteville. Only a handful remained after the Battle of Waynesborough. The field officers were Colonels Augustus Forsberg and Gabriel C. Wharton; Lieutenant Colonels George A. Cunningham, James W. Massie, and John P. Wolfe; and Majors William T. Akers, Stephen M. Dickey, D.P. Graham, D.S. Hounshell, and William A. Yonce.

William Nunn
Regiment Name 51st Virginia Infantry.
Side Confederate
Company H
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out
Film Number M382 roll 41

Co H - Capt Granville R. Conner's Co; formerly Called Co F; enlisted July 2, 1861, for one year; reorganized May 23, 1862.
Captains: Granville R. Conner (to April 1862), William G. Price (wnded; captured).

24th Infantry Regiment was assembled in June, 1861, with men from Floyd, Franklin, Carroll, Giles, Pulaski, Mercer, and Henry Counties. It served under Early at First Manassas, then was assigned to Early's, Kemper's, and W.R. Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 24th participated in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was detached to Suffolk with Longstreet. Later it was involved in the engagements at Plymouth and Drewry's Bluff, the Petersburg siege north of the James River, and the Appomattox operations. The regiment contained 740 men in April, 1862, and reported 189 casualties at Williamsburg and 107 at Seven Pines. It lost 4 killed, 61 wounded, and 14 missing at Frayser's Farm, had 8 wounded at Fredericksburg, and had about forty percent of the 395 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek with no officers and 22 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Jubal A. Early and William A. Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr. and Richard L. Maury; and Majors William W. Bentley, Joseph A. Hambrick, and J.P. Hammet.

Nunn, Edmund Co I Private Private

Nunn, Josiah W. Co H Private Private

Nunn, Walter F. Co I Private Private

Nunn, William Co I Private Private

Co I - Capt Andrew M. Lybrook's Co; organized April 25, 1861; mustered May 31, 1861, for one year; reorganized May 10, 1862.
Captains: Andrew M. Lybrook, J. Thomas Clark (resigned Oct 9, 1863)

Co H - Henry Guards, Henry County; mustered June 5, 1861, for one year; reorganized May 10, 1862.
Captains: Peter Randolph Reamy, Hardin H. Dyer, Orren W. Barrow