Confederate Brigade

Mahone's (Parham's) Brigade

"Old Dominion Brigade"

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
Col. William A. Parham

This Brigade's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Anderson's Division

Units which make up this Brigade:
  12th Virginia Infantry
  16th Virginia Infantry
  41st Virginia Infantry
  61st Virginia Infantry
  6th Virginia Infantry

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

The Brigade was very small on the Maryland Campaign: about 300 men present on South Mountain on 14 September and as few as 82 at Sharpsburg on the 17th, where they were consolidated as one "regiment" and attached to Pryor's Brigade.1

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

Notes

1 Carman, Ezra Ayers, and Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, editor, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 volumes, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, 2010-17, Vol. 2, pg. 257 [AotW citation 27600]

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