From the Richmond Dispatch, February 25, 1901.
THE PETERSBURG GRAYS.
Headquarters
L. O. Branch Camp, N. 515, U. C. V.,
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
The enclosed is a printed list of Company B, Twelfth Regiment, Virginia Infantry. I have been trying for several years to secure a complete list of my old company. Since I had the enclosed list printed I learn that I have left out two or three names, and with the hope of securing these, I respectfully ask the insertion of enclosed in the Confederate column of your Sunday edition.
During General Longstreet's raid upon Suffolk, in 1863, a recruit was sent to the company—he was a character—and his name is forgotten. The boys dubbed him "Jamaica Ginger." I would like to secure his name.
If any reader of the Dispatch knows the name of any one who was a member of the company during the war, and which does not appear in this list, a great favor will be done if it be mailed to me on a postal card.
It is my intention to have the list reprinted, and I purpose mailing a copy to each member now living, or to his family, if the address can be had.
J. C. Birdsong,
213 east Hargett street,
[The Editor would be glad to have, at this late day, the desiderata.]
List of officers and privates who volunteered in Petersburg "A. Grays," Fourth Virginia Battalion, afterwards Company B, Twelfth Virginia Regiment, Mahone's Brigade, A. P. Hill's C corps: