Residence was not listed; an 18 year-old Farmer.
Enlisted on 5/24/1861 at Appomattox CH, VA as a Private for one year.
On 5/24/1861 he mustered into "H" Co. VA 2nd Cavalry
He Re-enlisted on 2/11/1862 for two years or the war
He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA
He was listed as:
* On rolls 10/31/1861 (place not stated) (Present)
* On rolls 12/31/1862 (place not stated) (Present)
* On rolls 8/31/1863 (place not stated) (Present)
* On rolls 6/30/1864 (place not stated) (Present)
Other Information:
born in 1840
died in 1926
Buried: Family Cemetery, Rt 1011, Appomattox Co, VA
Pvt. William A. Martin, enlisted May 24,1861,in Captain Joel W. Flood's Company
of Cavalry (Appomattox Rangers), Radford's Regiment Volunteers which
subsequently became Company H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry
See E-Book: http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/mckim/menu.html
Randolph Harrison McKim, 1842-1920
A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate: With an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910.
See also:
http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/CSva-wv.html#VA-Cav
U.S. Army Military History Institute
Historical Services Division
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2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment Unit Bibliography
Blackford, Susan L.C. Letters From Lee's Army: Or, Memoirs of Life in Virginia During the Civil War.
NY: Scribner's, 1947. 312 p. E605B63.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 4: Virginia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1987.
1295 p. E484C65.1987v4. Contains numerous, scattered references to Virginia units.
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent, 1987.
E546C78. See p. 351 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Driver, Robert J., Jr., & Howard, H.E. 2nd Virginia Cavalry. Lynchburg, VA: Howard, 1995. 302 p.
E581.6.2nd.D75.
McCoy, Phil. "George Walker Gilmer, 2nd Virginia Cavalry." North South Trader's Civil War
Vol. 32, No. 2: p. 24-30 (7 photocopied pages). Per.
Peck, Rufus H. Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier of Co. C, 2nd Va. Cavalry. Ann Arbor, MI:
Univ Microfilms, 1971. 73 p. E58l.6.2d.P4.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia. NY: Facts on File, 1992.
pp. 104-05 (1 photocopied page). E581S53. (Unit organizational history).
Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations, 1861-1865. Lynchburg, VA: Howard,
1986. pp. 41-42 (2 photocopied pages). E581.4W35. (Brief unit history).
The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:
Bolling, John - CWTIColl
Brugh, Edward (Letter (BrakeColl
Dickinson, L. T. (Reminiscence) - BrakeColl
Isbell, Robert B. (Letters) - LeighColl BK 41: 100-108
Magruder, James W. (Letters) - LeighColl Bk 31: 56
Moore, Fletcher B. - CWTIColl-RAndersonColl
Mumford, Thomas T. (Letter) - BrakeColl
Pitzer Family - CWTIColl