Unit

Confederate Regiment

12th Virginia Infantry

Commanding Officers:
  Capt. Everard M. Feild
  Capt. J. R. Llewellyn
  Capt. Richard W. Jones

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #386: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 1 PM
   Tablet #344: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Anderson's Division
  Brigade - Mahone's (Parham's) Brigade

In the Antietam Campaign:
The Regiment crossed into Maryland on 6 September 1862 with around 150 present for duty. They had suffered devastating losses at 2nd Manassas in killed, wounded and captured. Among the casualties were the field officers: Colonel D.A. Weisiger was seriously wounded (not to return til Fall 1863) and Major John A May was killed "shot through the brain". Lieutenant Colonel Taylor was ill, though he accompanied the Regiment to Crampton's Gap. He was mortally wounded there on 14 September.

In Maryland, Captains Richard Jones and Everard M Feild commanded until the return of senior Captain John R Llewellyn on or about the 13th. Llewllen had been slightly wounded at Manassas, and was seriously wounded at the head of the Regiment at Crampton's. He was relieved by Captain Richard W Jones, "afterwards Major, who commanded it at Sharpsburg and in many of the engagements in the last year of the War."

References, Sources, and other Notes:
Descriptions of the unit and action on, and previous to, the Maryland Campaign are from accounts in Bernard.1 See more about the regiment in a blog post on behind AotW.

We have 4 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
F	Capt	Feild, Everard Meade	WIA 09/17
I	Capt	Jones, Jr., Richard Watson
K	Capt	Llewellyn (Lewellen), John Richard	WIA 09/14
F&S	LCol	Taylor, Fielding Lewis	MWIA 09/14

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Notes

1 Bernard, George S., War Talks of Confederate Veterans, Petersburg (Va): Fenn & Owen, 1892, pp. 47-50 [AotW citation 811]

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