Confederate Regiment

12th Virginia Infantry

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
  Capt. J. Richard Lewellen
  Capt. Richard W. Jones
  Capt. Everard M. Feild

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

On the Sharpsburg 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. Llewellyn 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."

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

References & 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 14 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
B	Pvt	Noble, Charles E.	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Smith, William Crawford	WIA/POW 09/14
C	Pvt	Eldridge, Robert S.	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Hatcher, Benjamin	KIA 09/14
F	Capt	Feild, Everard Meade	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Collier, John E.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Everett, William C.	MWIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Charlton, Cary	KIA 09/14
I	Capt	Jones, Richard Watson
I	Pvt	Walton, Preston T.	KIA 09/14
K	Lt	Drinkard, Major S.	MWIA 09/17
K	Capt	Lewellen, John Richard	WIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Scroggins, William W.	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Taylor, Fielding Lewis	MWIA 09/14

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