John Archer Coke

Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Williamsburg (VA) Artillery

The remainder of the War:
General Pendleton recommended his battery be disbanded in October 1864:

"...by relieving the officers of Captain [J. A.] Coke's company (present with this army), the captain, though entitled to credit for service, zeal, and many excellent qualities, not having all the requisites for efficiency, and assigning the men, as in the other cases, to Colonel Brown for distribution ..."

By 1863 he was on recruiting service in Richmond, being listed in the City Directory: "Capt. J. A. Coke, Enrolling officer 3d Congressional District. Office, south side Bank street, near 12th. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 2 P. M."

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